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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  MIT student can sometimes make you feel like the only boy at Wellesley ... take the T or the 1 Bus to Harv, which means I have to factor at least 10 ... and as easy as it is to get there, though, at times it can feel like I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  About two years ago at school I was sitting in the computer lab ... ." Not wanting to check at school I simply ignored them and put them out of ... "Snively, Improv Everywhere is doing their no-pants subway ride at 3 o

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  what it's like to survive at MIT with no TechCash, no cash, and a terrible desire to spend money on food at least once a day. This certainly ... bought lunch at Stata, handed over my ID and was alarmed to see that little

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  look back at my four years as a continuous system rather than a bunch of ... it did. To start, I will describe two snapshots at two different ... then start my own software company where I developed video games. At some

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  majoring in Biology, began working in the Langer Lab at MIT in November of ... integral part of my education at MIT. Currently, I study and work on a number ... biology-related UROP. Before arriving at MIT, I had zero experience with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  you know. :) We've got five cats at present -- Dr. Popular, Harley ... called "TerrificPets.Com" (I'm not joking). At East Campus, only about ... getting any more cats. I think other halls have had more at one time -- didn

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  morning, I was going to go to physics at 9, but then I decided I was too ... .02 (calculus) recitation I wanted I had to switch into 8.01 (physics) at 9 AM. So ... into 8.01 at 11, changed my calculus recitation to 3, and went back to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  pass/no record already. Basically, first term freshman year at MIT, you ... people tend to get lower grades first term at MIT than they've ever gotten ... in point: At 1 AM one night in November freshman year, I was studying

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  , how would you describe your first year at mit? relieved that you ... comfortable talking about it, but what's your grade like so far at mit (1st and ... in high school and getting straight b's here at mit? Well now you did

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  extracurricular activity when you first come to MIT, at least until you figure out ... summer and the Activities Midway at Orientation, and you'll get overexcited ... six hours per week (three practices of two hours each), plus cheering at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  .27 (Principles of Human Disease), so if I have to feel like crap, at least I can be ... than you can shake a stick at (7.20, 7.23, 7.27, 7.28, 7.29). On an even more practical note, if you get really sick at MIT (that is to say, not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  . I have my name on a poster that was presented at the Society for ... works one day a week at Massachusetts General Hospital curing the sick, so ... scientists in the US, twelve of whom are at MIT, including Morgan), that's the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  virtue at MIT. In fact, I don't think I'd be exaggerating if I said hard work is the virtue at MIT. MIT is often said to be more egalitarian than ... or not-so-secretly like working right at the edge of our abilities. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  housing options at MIT!) You can learn more about all the residence halls, and see more videos from previous years, at the MIT Guide to Residences

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in ... . For example, the stir-fry station at Simmons only has a selection of 8 ... [salad bar; only on Tuesdays at Simmons] = Avocado toast Cheese pizza

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  the final round. I looked around the room, at the wood paneled walls ... , all for just a chance at victory. Even the air here felt elite, spiced ... make us relax. We had no chance of winning, but when I glanced at my

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  that room at all, and finally said I could have the room just for this ... -black color at a time, ostensibly to show everyone I was hardcore but secretly ... future, the vision or meaning of which I hadn’t thought through at all

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  entire school year.) Besides a global pandemic, at least three decent memes ... at MIT, I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do after college, so ... Hawaii and coordinator at an open science nonprofit. As it so happened, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  (you can actually read a little about how I learned at that link). My ... -MIT years of working in tech. I did a postdoc at Harvard, in computational ... ’ve been a street medic – a first aid volunteer – at protests since 2011, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  "]summer[/annotation] at Canada/USA Mathcamp, where I lived five weeks in Tacoma, Washington ... all but one box and guess the number inside. If at most one advisor is ... embroidery, and become a master at advanced chickenology. [carousel image1

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024