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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  project that he'd really like Adam to take on for his master's degree. So ... crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch ... picking Harvard for grad school effectively meant he'd have to get into MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  State on my full scholarship, she was planning to get a pool in the backyard. So clearly I picked MIT, and I wore an MIT t-shirt to school on ... nature very independent, and I didn't want to have to ask my parents for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  flew across the country for California where I am currently lying on a ... I last appeared in any capacity on the internet. Though I do intend to ... subscribe to 12 meals a week can take its toll on any unsuspecting students

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  was a fair benchmark for which course to declare, so Brain and Cog it is ... application to Cataldo EMS, a private ambulance service for which many MIT ... they'd hire me. They asked me to come in for pre-employment testing

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  , the onus is on you to stay ahead of the game. Don't take any day for ... want to go play Pokemon? What version are you on? Ah, Diamond and Pearl ... 're going to become a Pokemon trainer -- you'll be catching them on your i

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  nice and all, but this is an idea that is hard for me not to be doubtful ... for help or participate in groups; when i happen to be in the midst of ... close friend to understand how overreliance on a small set of people leads

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  earnest to think about where to apply for college. For some of you it means ... we hope you'll like enough of what you see to want to apply for admission or at least want to come for a visit. So, you go through the box

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  opportunity to blog! I’ve wanted to write a “Day in the Life” entry for quite a ... we went to Sunny’s Diner (just up Mass Ave) for a good ole’ artery ... , trying to get everything ready for you guys, they had time to stop and pose

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  never going to end. It seemed like all my midterms were clustering on the ... different. For me, I spend the mass majority of my time on my Physics and Real ... game to be tested on. Luckily, that week prior and weekend, I spent a

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I ... of 8:00 to get ready for the train. A shuttle + subway ride later, I ... sabbatical next semester to write a book, so won't see him around for a while

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  nice on multiple levels to spend some of dead week just hanging out with ... annoying because I have to get out of bed for a morning meeting >< The ... discuss how we felt about this semester and plan for next semester to be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  to anyone who knows what those two lines are from.) So on that note ... [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there has been one and only one answer to every question. The reason to do a

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  we get to go to events for free. The CMS department sponsored me and a ... escalators reach over to their neighbors on the up escalators for high-fives as ... pasted on the side of a bus. Having a dedicated 5+ hours/week to really

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  , and are both going to Stanford for grad school. Say it with me now: "Aww ... not touristy enough, we headed on over to the Space Needle to continue ... (I should note that I stole this title from a People article on Kate

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For love of Baxter A story of love, loss, and catnapping on Burton 1, as documented by my cell…

  

  From: rich Subject: LOST CAT Date: January 22, 2008 1:22:26 AM EST To ... , 2008 1:51:44 AM EST To: rich Cc: burton1 Dear Richard, We have kidnapped Baxter because he smells funny and no one on the floor likes him. If

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  a number of events and fundraisers on campus to raise the $65,000 we ... decent and not-sketchy job of describing this; please feel free to question ... distill my reasons for wanting to become a physician scientist, it only made

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  of free time to socialize, relax, and simply enjoy everything that ... to stop for me as I ran across the street to catch it. Lost a ... name) to coordinate details for the Hunt,which starts this Friday. Our #1

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  't know who she is. So what adventures did we go on? Allow me to steal the ... handle. We stretched our MIT muscles and bartered for free admittance ... getting pwned, it's ON Laura! BTW, this has nothing to do with Laura or Sam

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  time to apply to graduate school. Favorite MIT event: Rush! Free food ... small seminar-style classes heavy on reading and discussing the primary ... , who's going to be a Nobel laureate, taught 7.31. Favorite professor at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  free tickets from MIT Course 6 department to go to the Grace Hopper ... stability this year and I hope to focus on that more. Maintain a 4.5/5.0 GPA ... for romance novels and I LOVE enemies to lovers so this was great. Red

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022