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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  post and this one is really not that much longer than the time between my ... . What have you been up to the past year? Ladies and gentlegoobers, I had ... ) Walk to work. It really depends on the day, since I do production and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  .” Kellis emphasizes that he has so much to learn from his students and loves ... with him today and asked him what it was like to receive such a ... immediately attributed his achievements to his unbelievable colleagues and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... students to just kind of relax," said Martha Merrill, dean of admission and ... the University of Chicago (and many other schools), we're happy to grant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  physics discoveries, and I tend to get a tad sidetracked in the popular ... easy to read and get an idea about some of my long-term goals within ... I love doing, and I didn’t do much of it senior year because I was so

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  . No, really. To all of the recently admitted, and any other hopefuls who ... you get to choose where you live and stay with something like a family ... people for years and years and they're all starting to drive me crazy, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  that much.) Pour 1 ounce batter and swirl to spread evenly. (I used ... with friends in Washington, D.C. and wanting to save money for future endeavors, I've decided to get my shit together and actually learn how to cook

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  reading your applications so much and it came to me about the time I walked ... anytime I need just a few minutes of peace and quiet or when I need to clear ... animals and cartoonish type qualities, eventually moving to those with

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  engineering and how many different people it takes to create a complete and ... months and reflect on what it meant to me. Living in Boston I spent most ... ceiling fan spinning dangerously close to my face and my roommate, Alysse

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  you're here, and we have your attention, I would like to ask for your ... finally got the budget and the design firm to do it right, and I'll be ... this site to be, how we want it to work, and what our overall mission and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  from Los Angeles to Tucson when I was three"]once.[/annotation] I was ... printed on semi-trucks, Fry’s and Coke and Target, coming in to the city ... ” neighborhood, closer to a grocery store, and with a greater density of coffee

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  "lightening the load" and how you can choose to overexert yourself but don ... devastating to me.  This schedule isn't easy, but it should be so much more ... drop some of my classes and almost didn't want to believe them. I wanted

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to ... that I uploaded to my webspace a couple days ago, and therefore must be ... another potluck last Saturday and Ling '07 decided to bring the American

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  's all about feedback. Feedback and self-assessment are effective ways to ... "Sandstorm," "Shipping off to Boston," and "Don't Stop Believing" over the ... are the fans, and they probably do just as much running as the athletes

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  appeals to you,” I wrote:  Pursuing Course 6.3 and UROPing at the Media Lab or CSAIL will give me the tools and the collaborative environment to ... my art practice eventually moved on to 2D media like painting and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  've learned a little about life - and how to live it: 1. Tell the truth. I ... but honestly gone to my graduate student and reported each of my ... as 11 pm, and I come home exhausted. 8-9 hours of sleep does wonders

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  lecture. I've found the textbook to be most helpful and the notes more as a ... effective when learning, but it does result in me frantically trying to drag and drop different parts of my notes on my IPad so I have space to edit

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  ! - recommended: right-click+save as on the link to download the file and listen on ... stopped to think, and realized, "Hey, wait, I actually like this stuff ... I came to MIT. I didn't expect to be playing as much music here as I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  how many I ate, but got Spagetti-o’s once and decided to call it a day ... much milk as you possibly can. Casein (a protein found in milk) binds to capsaicin (the spicy chemical), making it much more effective than water to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  could get used to the water temperature before going out further and ... bunch of my friends are taking theirs this week and next week. As much as ... assignments and learning content makes it so that you have to keep doing

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  for headers, logos, titles, and other large texts, as opposed to body ... Helvetica and Arial, then? The answer's convenience. Windows does not come ... Courier New, the "9 AM to 2 PM" is Palatino Linotype, and everything else is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023