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• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton ... CPW is finally over, which basically means I'm back to sleeping again ... about all of the things that needed to be done in the next x hours) and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising and freshman formalities

  

  three or four times this year, and it's a good way to get to know your ... happened this week. - Thanks to a freight derailment in Idaho, I spent most of Tuesday on a bus from Montana to Washington state. - Last night, my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  three minutes (shouldn't you be in class?), we're trying our best to get ... Science Talent Search today: good luck!Still to come, whenever I get time ... beyond the call of duty to process the 40,000+ application pieces as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  So all freshmen are assigned to a faculty advisor who helps them make ... advisor, which is an upperclassman who acts as a something of a mentor to ... , that I've decided to devote an entire entry to it. First things first

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay ... do not do justice to how Clay-obsessed some Claymates are. I don

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  microspheres that can potentially be used to develop a cancer vaccine. Genetic vaccines work by inducing an immune response to a protein that is produced by inserting beneficial DNA into the nucleus of a cell. The tough part is getting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  People walking shoulder-to-shoulder down the Infinite There’s always ... don’t need to have a “We’re off to see the wizard” moment in the middle ... arrives, only for it to go out of service Happened to me too many times

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  have thought waking up before 7 AM could be nice. The morning used to be a stressful rush to get to school on time for first period. Here, each ... naturally wake up very early. I know, it's a nice "problem" to have

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  had to audition to get in) who can actually sight read pretty well, he ... [by Jessica Noss '14] Unable to choose a single group, I decided to ... ended up staying all semester, which turned out to be a very bad idea by

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  each class who would like to have lunch on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 with ... the MIT Corp., faculty from other schools and donors/sponsors to both ... faculty separately to assess the state of the department. Your feedback is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  who applied for EA got a chance to contact your EC and have an interview ... to talk about what goes into an interview report. What we won't see in ... various projects you worked on or groups you belonged to and worked with

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  I are engaged, and we're planning to be married in September or October of next year. (We're hoping to have our reception at the Museum of Science -- because what better place is there for two MIT grads to have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  (too late for me to major in 11 now, but wish me luck on getting a minor ... get to living in the Internet," my hallmate once told me. And here, at ... (you'll see what I mean once you get to college).   I am just

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  ? Sounds crazy, right? – because you want to get away from your parents as ... or class ranks or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way ... just returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  self-study and proceeded to get 5's in all three subjects. For a long ... that I perceive science. Back in high school, I used to get by by ... really hard to even get a basic research position in a biology lab there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  promised to get back to her on that. Class plans are mostly useful for ... live in MacGregor? Or will you just get randomly assigned to them as a ... more logistically difficult to fit in the extra classes that you need to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  you have to tell your whole life story just to get any help from support ... ."]S^3[/annotation] to get the support I really, desperately need right now ... impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  Now Playing: Talk to Me - Cavetown   I stared at the river for ... ; I had a CV PSET that I had not yet started, and I ought to have been ... them for long enough, they will implore you to think. After hastily

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  to eat shit when it does get served so I can move on and work towards ... to how someone confronts failure. The goal of high achievement is to ... ; The goal of perfectionism is more similar to a survivalist mindset. If

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  be worth showing up early to get the form signed. The first thing I ... am, I have Astrophysics lecture, so I scurry from the Z-Center to the third floor of Building 36. To allow for these kinds of circumstances, MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013