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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  just a semester of my undergraduate career left, it's hard not to. Every ... 've found it hard to stay present. I've been enjoying my time in Madrid ... feelings on what I want the future to look like. Had you asked me in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  'm EXHAUSTED. I was supposed to do [annotation note="a program where MIT students travel to Israel every year to teach coding and entrepreneurship to ... forward to doing these programs since high school, i set my hopes on doing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster ... many things to-do. The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master. [caption

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Parting Remarks Ending the same way I began

  

  classes I decided to make this last video just sort of going through how MIT ... , non-scripted, talking for too long videos that I used to make for the class of 2019. So I thought, what better way to end my time at MIT than

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  I hate going to the hospital. Yes, hospitals help people. Most nurses ... Wednesday. It is driving me crazy. I started talking to my squishible monster ... Services is super great about sending emails to professors and letting them

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  To everyone who's waiting for a pi(e) day decision: It's all going to be okay. It may not feel like it right now, with t-12(ish) hours until that fated time, but it will be. I tried to think of what high

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  For Applicants Admitsphere.org, four hens, two ducks, best wishes and high regard from Mac-town, Oregon

  

  to say, take a look at admitsphere.org. Admitsphere was devised by a ... '16, to sustain high school students through the application process ... offer advice/tutorials for younger students. Their ambition is "to become

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 27, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  ;yield"), we admitted 1620 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the ... those students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  Campus to the Z-Center one day when my favorite song of the musical theatre ... measure a year, I began to wonder what units I use to measure my life. The first quantity that came to mind was distance and the easiest unit of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  'm Abir, a prefrosh, and I was fortunate enough to have the BEST host ever ... asked me to guest blog about CPW and I am going to try to give a glimpse ... beaver I am, I decided to book my flight to CPW EARLY in the morning; 6

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Past Enrollment On A Map [updated as to not freeze your browsers ^_^] My final project for 4.502 (Design Scripting).

  

  almost everyone else is kickin it into full gear to ace their own tests and theses. Below is the link to my final project for 4.502/4.564, an undergraduate/graduate class which uses programming to design stuff. We learned

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  -checked all my saved strains of yeast, handed my notebook to my post-doc, had a ... sense of finality, of completion - of fulfillment. Today, I head back to ... amazing summer. I haven't even had the chance to blog about all the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  Tension filled the air as people were ushered in to 6-120. Scientists dotted the MIT campus, urging people to get to 6-120 as fast as possible ... final prototypes to an audience of industry representatives, parents, and

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  birds called zebra finches, which are known for their ability to sing ... interest me without having to think about grades. I always look forward to going in to lab.” When Emilienne started her UROP, she spent a lot

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  family/friends aspect and making new friends =)" Moving away to college for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same time. There was one other person from my high school coming to MIT the

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline & Taking Questions Advice for RA applicants; I'll answer questions Thursday.

  

  students applying for regular action admission to MIT. This means that you ... to the deadline, the longer it will take our records office to process and for it to appear on your Application Tracking. Our records office is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The career fair and emerging pop stars Thinking about life after MIT at the Career Fair...and then watching a fellow blogger transform…

  

  set-up booths in our athletic facility to try to recruit MIT students. While the fair was specifically tailored to graduating seniors looking for full-time jobs, underclassmen also attended to try to secure summer

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Man of Many Hat(ches) Keyword: Free.

  

  Shell play host to the Boston Pops on July 4th, but it also plays host to ... to rival volcanic eruptions are also very exciting to see. A few ... until I was old enough to have my own stereo system, I jammed out with her

  • by Bryan
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  This morning I went in early to image neurons on the confocal microscope again, and I was going to take pictures of the lab and our equipment for you guys -- I wanted to take them when I was in early, so I wouldn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  Green stopped in the middle of lecture at 11:22 to administer it, and it ... on the chalkboard as a reference. In his words, the quiz was to "test ... to me an article that he found while perusing the most recent issue of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006