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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  doubts that I was willing. That decision had stayed alive from at least ... the basis of at least 2-5 points on a test or exam, or whoever pulled ... feeling here at MIT. I'm free to pursue what's academically interesting or

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  D at Vanderbilt, and Hendrik, a current MIT graduate student.   ... because you’ll be too busy laughing and being happy. Now he’s at Vanderbilt ... anything scripted? Nothing that the contestants said or did was scripted. (at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  first met while judging Battle of the Bands at CPW 2010. Today, at 3:54 PM ... at my hotel before checking in at CPW. Did I really want to go to MIT ... would teach me to think like an engineer and at the same time, expose me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  Earlier today I read Michael Lewis' remarkable remarks at the ... 's Cookie." Lewis, an art history major at Princeton, is a famous journalist ... his time working at the derivatives desk at Salomon Brothers during the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  I don’t know if your school does this, but MIT asks its students at ... did something similar in GEL last year: At the end of the fall semester ... for me: speak up! At least half of the comments said something like

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  start volunteering at a local hospital. Nurse: Birth date? Me: 31 October ... , at the elementary school where I volunteer on Tuesday afternoons. My ... at the sink, and carried it over to the table. Silence fell as the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  reëntered as grad students. At work the interstitial space feels even more ... 'm still one of the "young guys" at the office. But yet the undergraduates ... twice as wise, or at least wise twice. I am confident this is how wisdom

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  , "Call for a good time." He showed up at the requested meeting place, and ... ..." Allegedly, I frothed at the mouth and rasped, "Mitra?? THE Mitra?" (Mitra, for ... -than-loud conversation was quietly tolerated by plaid-clad hipsters wincing at us over

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  of me even scoffed at the transient notion that this would take any significant time at all. "They're already on number 4 out of 5" I said to myself ... thinking. Lets take a look at another one" Panic. All. Of. The. Problems

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  alone at all. Your first adjustment, then, will be to prepare for the ... - at least at Next House - each have a thermostat. Hypothermia isn't an ... ? I can personally withstand a snow-induced catastrophe for at least

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  AND being busy at the same time. I resent it. Regardless, it's that ... new kind of shock. I spent my morning and afternoon in lab at MIT ... them, eager to make it home. To a fellow punk: "Doesn't even look at us

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  of them. Before every launch, I glanced at one line of the table ... plucking plums all the while, with minimal success. At 5’ 2”, she was a good ... and poked at a few of them, just to see what would happen. My un

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  hometown friends are back at school and already a week into their second ... Conner, work a few hours at night calling alumni and asking for money, and ... at Hong Kong University for the fall semester and then travel across

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  weeks. You do not need to worry at this time about documents that are not ... copy of any document at this time. Also, you do not need to call MIT Admissions at this time to check on any such documents (there is a time for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  nuisances of airport security, circa Holiday Season, post-2001 A.D. At 7 AM ... at sunrise, the groggy skyline gulping down cold milky skies frothed ... astrophysically precise.) *In fact, this fact is not factually interesting at all

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  at home preparing before finally getting on the subway, which took a little too long waiting at the station JUST before I had to get off. (Of course it did.) I got off at Shinjuku-sanchome, realized I had gotten off

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  conference (at Hah-vahd). (I was Fiji, by the way - oh and Ahmed went too ... :) ). Oh, and this was at the Silk Road Ensemble Concert this last Sunday at ... wow...such a good movie. (btw, I spend at least one hour every night

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  traveler who arrived at the wrong airport after a trip four times longer than ... messed up when they do it at the airport. Let me put you on a flight to another city." "We're leaving at 8. 9. 9:40. 10. 10:30. 10:50. 11:30. We

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  in Random Hall's Stairwell. At MIT circa Finals Week, people tend to ... Californians call it, Apocalypse Now. At 11:00 PM on Tuesday, I closed my ... dorm: From: Yan To: Random Hall Date: Friday, Dec. 19 at 11:30 PM Subject

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My ... 'm just rambling on aimlessly! No one at my school blogs, and it would have ... into the room, waiting in suspense at 4:17 PM as Random Hall residents

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008