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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  members in the service so during the semester, it can be difficult to get ... Market to stock up on food in case I couldn’t get out during the blizzard ... Cambridge area companies such as CDK Global and Google to have a group of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  The MIT Public Service Center provides fellowships for students to travel around the world to allow them apply their talent and knowledge ... teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  I've decamped from the Boston area northwards to New Hampshire for the weekend. My house in the suburbs of Cambridge, while high enough to avoid flooding in nonapocalyptic scenarios, is almost certain to lose

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  a bus and spend an hour getting to Nashoba Valley Ski Area. You get a ... ordering of things during IAP that stuck out to me. 6.178 - Introduction to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class offered only

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  's the coolest way to get around.)But I'm getting ahead of myself. On to ... 'll need convenient ways to get to those places. What's more, not all of them ... have to take my word or Google's word for it, since I forgot to take

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  as Congress prepares to take up the president's budget, which calls for ... obligation, is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of ... interested in energy research or energy education, be sure to check out their

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  the failing gets to be primary. This might sound surprising, since ... need to learn how to do is fail, but not let failure get you down. You ... to get the grades you want, and you'll do it, and everything will be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  “get to know you” forms for roommates and advisors and whatever other MIT ... frequency in get-to-know-you questionnaires), so I was still a little ... —it’s discouraging sometimes to see how much the people around me are getting done, how

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  name private high school? Or is it possible to get a good enough ... activities, etc.) aren't enough anymore. What *does* it take to get into MIT ... MIT admissions when you have the opportunity to get current about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  , are making their way to the largest of MIT's annual career fairs. Today, 300 companies are on campus trying to recruit MIT students to come work for them, or to do a summer internship. The companies span the spectrum

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  time I try to write it I get sad and miss home and put it off ‘til later. I will get around to introducing myself and Kentucky soon, so just ... ’m afraid of the Wolf of Wall Street.”  … When freshmen first get to campus

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in ... .801 Political Science Scope and Methods, 17.803 Political Science Laboratory (the sequel to 801), WGS.151 Gender, Health, and Society, and WGS.229 Race

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  I wasn’t about to let anything get in the way of my Acadia trip ... excuses, and this Thanksgiving trip was the catalyst I needed to get started ... driving experience, I still needed to get a learner's permit before doing my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  Ohio Alumni Club get-togethers. Over spring break, I get to met the ... stares at me. I should’ve Googled if deer attack humans. But at least the ... librarian wondered if I was over 12 years old—not great to hear a month before

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  engineers, and we love to stay updated on their projects. One day, we may get ... dozens of posts, and whether I’ll get to writing them is unclear. I hope ... At MIT, no community follows an algorithm, but each one is open to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  How To Avoid Sounding Stupid* *All advice should be taken with a ... understanding the concept on the first try. Don’t ask the person sitting next to you to clarify what’s on the board; they’ll ridicule you for poor eye

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  turned to my friend Google. I found: A nice video story about Fleisig and ... charge of the lab that I wanted to get a job in this field; he laughed and ... of the series 7-2, thanks to a strong pitching performance from David

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  year and thus couldn't get on-campus housing anymore. I used to live in ... events to your Google Calendar through tinyurl.com/rushwilg ... occurred at our house. I'm happy to announce that we did not, in fact, burn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  get to know the tools that they'll be working with later on, but I think ... Two days ago, Sophia '10 drove Kathy '10 and I to Cape Cod, where we ... would be worrying about how much stuff there is still to do tonight." I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  lucky enough to get onto a team. We teamed up with the RP lab (Rapid ... to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the beginning of the semester in August but never got around to finishing it. I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009