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• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  'll have the smarts, skills, and mindset that I need to leave a permanent ... the future. There's no need to be too stressed. 3. Remember that a life ... Hello (again) World! My goal to blog once a week has sadly failed

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  I'm not going to lie; being a senior pretty much rocks. I'm only ... need for classes, then use a book search engine like this one to see how ... possibly a paper between me and graduation. Not to mention that my grad

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  much as their male counterparts do. The world simply needs to do more to ... to make is that Susan Hockfield was the best candidate by a landslide, and the fact that she also happens to be a woman reinforces the fact

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  Today I got an email from MIT that directed me to a website which ... 're smart cookies. We applied to more schools than just MIT, thereby opening ... a bit annoying - can't corporations spare the two minutes to write a

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  most familiar with or have a Bachelors in, does not necessarily have to ... that much. By sophomore year of college, I had to declare my major. I ... time, I didn’t really know what it meant to have a job in robotics. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  . My setup is so much better now. When I need to make a PowerPoint for my ... have a much better sense of what my laptop needs to handle. I actually ... much older laptop. Or the time I went to a company info session and was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  intelligence in such a vast array of ways. I was very attached to The Smart Kid ... for advice and when to just make a decision. My spine is much tougher, I ... gotten to know a much wider cross-section of the campus community. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  a college campus (and at my alma mater no less) exposes me to random ... phases of my life. a while back, i was waiting in atlas to get my ID card ... the notes app on my phone begs to differ. maybe it was a fear of failure

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  Architecture department tend to host or promote a lot of these events, in ... setting up in the List Arts Center. It was super inspiring to see a large ... ="600"] they had some actual Commodore 64 computers there!!! I need to get

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  , everyone's so much better!" 3:15 to 3:47: Jennifer talks a bit about what ... end: Xiong Bao: "In college, we had a class like 2.70 where we needed to ... ;_>) PART ONE: 1:00 to 1:30: That guy is a pretty famous internet comic

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  would get outstanding grades.)" You don't need a high school diploma to ... services time is 508 hours. I feels so bad about it. Do I need to write a ... , could you notify me so that I can send a new one?" You'll need to call our

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  Before I get to the point of this entry, I'll answer a couple of questions. Karen asks: "This is a bit random and irrelevant to your entry ... stats sound like you are smart enough to do the work, so you should think

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  , but this doesn't need to be true nor is MIT benefited from it ... competence super smart and talented ofc. Raw talent I’d be referring to the ... any niche topic you have to talk about MIT also has a lot of unique or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  right, mom. Getting sick really does suck.) To end on a positive note ... super sick and ended up having to undergo surgery a week after that blog ... tell you all about the experience. (Now would also be a great time to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  , 12 to go. That sounds a lot better. Exam week is a busy time at MIT; a ... and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final ... . The words "too many irons in the fire" don't mean much to us. We like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  ? I love to work. I'm a hard worker. But I'm not so smart when it comes ... Orientation?" You know, to refresh my memory, I created a thread on College ... things MIT students do to afford college. Does MIT offer sholarships to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  friendships for a degree, but I think you have to understand there's much more ... , in fact, qualified and smart enough to get through it. I don't have a ... " because I have never known a school to go as hard as MIT does. East Campus

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  An MIT Adventure Life at the 'Tute

  

  demonstrated to me just how passionate, smart, crazy, and down-to-earth they ... experiences as a student at MIT. I hope you enjoy their stories as much as I do :-) ... : had never seen a taxi, had never been on a subway (except for the one at

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  break, which was urgently needed to prevent a severe case of a horrifying ... started looking around for things to stir thoughts in my head, a stimulus of ... . I had wanted to blog about some casual photos I had around for a while

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  of rigor and pace. I also need a lot of reinforcement to grasp a ... does it really take to get in and whether or not I still have a shot at ... of need to have a Ph.D or will a bachelors or a masters get you a good

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013