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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  lakes in Rhode Island to begin with…!), played games, ate smores, and much ... DC, the fact that I’m going to be a *senior* is slowly, and painfully ... an eternity and the underground route from E25 to Lobby 7 seemed just

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  . Best of luck, and remember you have so much life ahead of you to do good ... mentors, because I think I'm still a bit too young and foolish to be ... to pick yourself up and redraw your life's trajectory for the next

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  around the country. But I digress and philosophize. To pass the time until ... forthcoming?), and then headed over to the Colonial Park Diner for some late ... , the other team chooses a player to get up and convey as many phrases as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  and EMT!  Little did I know, my new skills as an EMT were going to be ... out of bed and walking around, trying to force myself to fall asleep.  I ... hours for me to fall asleep and it is really hard to stay asleep. At 1am

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  , suspiciously asking the class to introduce itself and not talking about protein ... , orange juice, and large coffee from Café Four to my favorite empty ... , mechanical pencils, and glitter fairy stickers to put on my problem sets. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  'm developing my traditional mid-winter cold. I have way too much to do in the ... persevered and managed to design my very first NOT gate in 6.002 lab ... world is? Well, I will tell you. It is going to the Zesiger Center to go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! from post-blizzard New Jersey.

  

  transportation in the Northeast for a good few days... And I was pretty much snowed ... , Good luck to those finishing regular decision apps! And Happy New Year ... , basking entirely in food and sleep. A few days after I got home, the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 31, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  It is 2:30 and I already stained my neurons and nail-polished them to ... -gritty, and so if you don't learn everything, you could be screwed. I went to ... much larger and toothier than lab mice, and as such they kind of give me

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  heard from me, I had just turned in my thesis and was going to a meeting ... days (I pretty much made a dinner out of Sun Chips and pineapple soda the ... , and all that was left to me was to rewrite the introductory paragraph to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  alley, they appeared to be drilling holes into the pavement and covering ... my window. Said it was coming down anyhow and didn't want anyone to get ... consecutive days now and the noise is making it impossible to sleep as I live on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  . Usually, 8.01 and 8.02 suffice. Calculus: -18.01/18.02 (which you have to ... regrettably true. Medical schools pay a lot of attention to your GPA and MIT ... Does the smell of latex make you smile? Think Grey's Anatomy is the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  free to be as incoherent as you like, and don't lose too much sleep over ... It's pretty hard to live in Boston and not get swept away by Red Sox ... I was using to put off doing my own problem sets) and do a little

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  working computer, and some free time to go through my photos from the ... took 6.S978 to try my hand at the intersection of law and technology ... Course 6 to better understand and contribute to the policy debate. For the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  , does it take so long? Well, think about everything that needs to happen ... 15). Mail Services sorts the mail and brings it by the bucketload to ... thanks and encouragement to our awesome records office team: Sofia, Sue

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  got to work right away planning and organizing orientation events for ... , running to home depot (an adventure every time), and building/setting up pretty much devoured our time, not to mention we were also trying to get to

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  work, we're having another party with cakes and coffee. Not to celebrate ... ! Because you'll never talk to them again once classes start. No, seriously ... and I needed to reevaluate our relationship. So as I walked by, I very

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  , first picturing ourselves in the 10+ companies we applied to, and then in ... -minute to apply to grad school. And just 2 days ago, we officially were ... questions, with the courage and faith to face any challenges ahead. Watching

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  Redmond, WA And what are you up to? Product mechanical engineer intern at ... share? Work is super fun! And I'm trying to figure out… life, aka what I ... , trying to wrap up the current project and then moving onto the next one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  . i usually like to sculpt and edit neurotically, but i'm trying to see ... started, I went to Amsterdam and Vienna with my brother and aunt. It was a ... and vulnerable, because in the real world no one wants to grapple with

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  , and the occasional puppy labs. For several of us, there’s so much more ... , I’m here to introduce you to a few of our MIT and Crosstown cadets ... their sophomore year. It is designed to evaluate military leadership and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018