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• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  that got us through high school to here. We become "jaded" is the official term.  In the fall of senior year, I got my first D in a mostly ... , that is, until I fell in love with Nerd Paradise.  The Harvard elective

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  the lesson to take away from this is "when you're in the freshman ... this post a lot trying to break it down. In the end, I decided it came ... 's kinda a chonky set of claims, huh? I want to be very clear that this is in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  with so much energy before.    the show went by in the blink of an ... with its other showings, so…   i wasn’t really in the mood to work ... made were in the sections i choreographed (the irony…). my parents really

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  I decided that the comment would be too long. Because in addition to ... to get in somewhere good. You don't have to be valedictorian, be in the ... I read Ben's entry about the thread on College Confidential (in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  , and much more. According to statistics from the MIT Careers Office, in ... , are making their way to the largest of MIT's annual career fairs. Today ... for them, or to do a summer internship. The companies span the spectrum

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  bright light, and rods allow you to see better in the dark, which is why ... , on the other hand, is much more rigid, depending on where you are. For the most part, I had to be at work from 10AM-6PM, Monday through Friday

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  of others who were in line, I anxiously awaited the chance to hear ... extracurricular activity to which most can devote time – unless, that is, you ... . GPI is easily one of the most organized and sophisticated initiatives

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs

  

  to college in the fall and can sleep soundly. But making a choice is ... insane amount of activities happening regularly, the short answer is yes ... can afford MIT. We know that the cost of MIT factors into most students

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  , went to my first bar in Boston, and stayed up into the wee hours ... as amazing. I got to watch the sun set on the beach without a worry in ... opportunity to interview on-site at another company in the Bay Area in two days

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  promising and in good hands. Yes, it's Saturday, and I'm working. Much of the ... Boston, the ability to have so many colleges right nearby is a really great ... reading carefully every sheet of paper in your folder and summarizing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  place out in the suburbs, Strawberry Fair, then made our way down to ... West. Plimoth Plantation, which is mostly closed for the season, was next ... the past eight years I've been in Boston, and we've never strugged to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  the warmth still feels like a tiny miracle. Campus is starting to ... home to the 41 and see that the alignment chart is being updated, and 5 ... get a text that there's pad thai in the 52, and one of our DJ's is

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  ships on display. I take a diversion to The Alchemist and take in the way ... admire the reflections of headlights in the street. Simmons to Du Pont T ... is in the Forge and Foundry space below the Infinite Corridor, where we

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  because the last thing you want to do is to waste a supervision. The good thing about weekly psets at MIT is that there's an end to the madness ... The sun always seems to hover near eye level. It gets a bit

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  . That class is the most information intensive class I've ever seen in my ... airport I'm trying to fly into is about to get buried in the worst snow ... * final that could be equated to being repeatedly paddled in the face

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  the idea of an engineering school, and unsure what I wanted to major in ... to try for grad school again at some point in the future it'll be good ... gaining the skills to be hired in that job at the bachelor's level. If you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  for you [ed: in case you want to move via FYRE]. Most of all, REX is a ... experience. For the rest of you, REX is the perfect time to explore MIT's dorms ... The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Class of 2023 is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  premiered in a theatre Wagner built specially for it. True to form, the ... managing to be graceful Rheinmaidens while suspended 30 feet in the air ... [by Davie Rolnick '12, Guest Blogger] Glory be to MIT! The Arts

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  has international feel to it. The guy sitting diagonal to me is Skyping ... . On the plus side, most people are choosing to assume that it's 100 ... time here is at like 10:30 a.m. every morning (random much?), where line

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  levels. Most important to us is that you are interested, motivated, and ... relevant to ongoing projects in the lab, help design experiments, and be ... of the speaker, in order to align head and hand gestures with the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005