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• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  'T KNOW! I NEED SOME TIME TO THINK! So here are a few of my thoughts on the ... it comes time to pick a grad schools. 2. The discipline I chose ... next ten years of their life to the poverty-stricken pursuit of higher

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  lead on the project i'm working on knows how to cad and do physics and ... , to see so many people and have things in-person again, but at the same ... member, this year i had the great opportunity to help write for the hunt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  Random instead of having to lie on your back in the Sistine Chapel. Bring ... with the dormitories being so self-selecting. You get to choose where you ... living group--from the dorms to the FSILGs (Fraternities, Sororities and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  . How does one go about studying? The general recipe is to just lock ... the solutions, that way I have something to look at if I get stuck. This ... can't do this anymore. I'm heading back to the dorm. I'll be updating

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

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  journeyed to a small side street and spent the next three hours on sketching ... on time Tuesday morning, so I can't tell you about the tour of Boston my 11.001 class went on. In lab, Arka '10 and I had the only completed

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  interviews has changed (though Kim's observations on the interview and our ... each of you is looking to find colleges where you feel you can spend the next four years. Your EC will be able to help you with lots of the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  outside the MIT bubble. Sounds crazy, right? Well, do you want to leave home ... comfortable there? The answer to that is usually no, especially when your home ... more convenient in a classroom on campus? Well sometimes I have to leave

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  , so I'm on the downhill now. If I can just make it through Orientation ... So I'm back in the US, and it's weird. The first thing I noticed as I ... 's weird to realize how easily you can immerse yourself in something, and not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in ... recent trip has brought me to the San Francisco bay area to interview at UC ... a shuttle across the bay to Berkeley. Dinner is pizza and beer at the

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

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  person that I ever knew in high school. On Monday I'm headed for the ... Wolfgang Puck, Toni Braxton, and Prince on the American Idol finale? ... DID YOU KNOW? The late Strom Thurmond filibustered the Civil Rights

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  I’d intended to write this post the first day of classes, but was ... comedian. The room is so large that he has to have a microphone. By the end ... I have to do the same work that they do... O__O”) My emotions have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some news & notes for the Class of 2011.

  

  students admitted to the Class of 2011, as soon as tomorrow night (I ... . On the registration form, please help us out by giving us useful ... more to say about CPW over the next few weeks. I hope I'll see many of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Funny pictures of me I wear a New Year's party hat. That's funny, right?

  

  You want to know the hardest part about this job? Entry titles. It ... to be an actual adult for the night (I turn twenty next week. Yikes ... on one of the New Year's party hats that were decorated by the 6-year

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  -wannabes were), I need to get my 8 units the old-fashioned way: PE classes. (I ... workout designed to focus on toning and strengthening while utilizing self ... set to a wide range of modern music. We begin by teaching you the calls

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  . The delta in my personhood is literally entirely due to MIT. So, as a ... something that i'd get sent to the hospital for"]occasionally literally) foam ... immediately come to mind are [annotation note="this was before...the atrocity

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  on my UROP but instead writing this. By the way, a few weeks ago I got ... . Hopefully it'll get warm enough to walk along the beaches at least! Before ... It's always exciting to get not just a three-day weekend, but an

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  feeling like it's an okay the best way to do life Chatting up classmates ... cookies last all the way to Burton Conner All-you-can-eat sushi at Yamato ... pride that comes from knowing how to navigate the tunnels and a silent joy

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  :) ~*~ This IAP I went to the Philippines with Yuri ’10 and Anita ’11 to work on ... over to England to visit a childhood friend. I've spent the past week ... , and attempting to imitate British accents as best I can. All the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tweet, tweet plus: swarming, oil spill cleanup robots and virus-made, clothing-embedded batteries

  

  this summer" post...) Meanwhile, as the summer comes to an end, how was ... been so crazy busy, I don't ever seem to have time to sit down and blog ... 're interested, feel free to follow me - I'm @MikeyMIT. Meanwhile, I've been

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  parts to get assembled. On the day of our assembly, we slugged boxes of ... burn on the bottom surface. So, I set out to try to minimize that ... router to cut out pieces of the project, and tweaked some designs in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019