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• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  portfolio enough by the end of this year to get a research job in industry ... classes is that in an environment where you're supposed to be learning ... disheartening, when it happens at school, a place where you're supposed to be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  to write essays about what you do in your free time -- they really don ... you want to research in grad school, and how seriously you're committed ... Hmm, I was under the impression that summer was supposed to be a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  language skills in a professional setting. Eventually, I'd love to go beyond ... is a life-long process, and I'm confident in my ability to sustain my ... popped up and started speaking to my friend in Chinese. I hardly even got

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  and grow close to so many people in such a short period of time, what ... unproductive feelings in a healthier way and to not blindly reject others when I ... people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  get into MIT, but really had no idea what it was like. I looked to a ... 've been quickly ushered in To a world that I confess I do not know But I ... a very specific snapshot to my MIT experience, and my life in general

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  Potter, and I had to get Dumbledore’s help because I was hiding in a broom ... organization, and we needed his help to keep Voldemort from getting in because ... laugh, and a “Shannon, you really need to get off the internet.” At MIT

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  of a lifetime,” but to only focus on education is selling it short. In ... Walmart, which, in our tiny New Mexico town, was a destination akin to ... independence, responsibility, and skill needed to thrive in a place as fast

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  objects and places around me. I need your help: I'm striving to create a ... Kickstart this project, you're not just getting a photobook, you're getting an ... There was a great article in the Tech earlier this week about startup

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Simmons Cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat

  

  I love being back in Simmons after a long break. I get to hang out ... ? That’s okay. I think I saw a sign with your picture on the way in. Let ... "] Wow, he's a peer mentor too? He's certainly making me feel at home in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  .) There was even a high scores banner in Lobby 7: Hee. E1337. Get it? It ... a photograph. As I walked into Lobby 7, camera in hand, ready to ... seriously and hurried over to get pictures before things were taken down

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  lying, then, to call these lies? Five. In What getting an education from ... you want it to be. That most people don't actually take six classes a ... you've handled this many classes in the past, so I'm going to approve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Action deadline is almost here The only thing scarier than October 31st is Nov 1st (just kidding, no need to…

  

  understanding with teachers and schools. Your recommendations do not need to be in ... get too stressed out! Go out with your friends. Give out candy to cute ... processing of all submitted materials. Items are not posted directly to your

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  like trying to get a stray cat to come closer. sometimes your efforts and ... . i skimmed through many iterations of "a pleasure to have in class" and ... also appreciate your little 1-10 scale check-ins and effort to connect

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  ; students not assigned to research for that week will write a short blog post ... Regular readers may recall that I've been teaching a bit in ... description: There is often a tendency to consider technical systems as 'purely

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  Pad but in the shape of a sphere and it goes on top of your car". Towards ... . and you have to cover your costs. This is opposed to a software startup ... networking afterwards because I had to get to another class, but I did learn a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  most is to read anything you can get your hands on -- if you have a broad ... seems a little silly to try to get in touch with them before I get to ... 's somewhat easier to get into graduate school after taking a year or two off

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Re-Introduction of Sorts Hi, my name is Bryan.

  

  . You're in college now." Here's the catch. It's MIT, a place with as many ... a ride in my virtual time machine and look back on some of my science ... deserves a description. Back in AP Chem, me and my friends all sat in the

  • by Bryan
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  was a medical scribe, which meant I followed the doctors in to the ER ... watched, clutching a clipboard to my chest. Exam Room 1 is not a normal ... to do something else for a while. You know, take a break from homework

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  upperclassmen in your dorm will be of great help with this. People who come to MIT ... your schedule, since 1) you have to allow time to get to the other school ... group going out to a club in Boston, or hundreds of people in a fraternity

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  have preparing for quals in grad school -- your knowledge needs to be ... Kathy's post (A Day in the Life...), but I should also point out that the ... continual assessment, and are given maybe a few days to prepare for tests, and

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008