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• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  frenzy looking for something constructive to do. Believe it or not, I ... !) Applying for an internship is a challenge- actually, applying to anything in ... go to California. Honestly, that was it. I love the beach (evidence: I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  to stop for me as I ran across the street to catch it. Lost a ... ultimate goal is to develop treatments for scarring that can sometimes occur ... can guess, animal surgery is a pretty big deal, so I had to don full

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  included a list of creative touches we had added to the space to make it feel ... reach of MIT and its relationship to the world  Connect to the rest of ... for decades. The magazine we send to donors is literally called Spectrum

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  , right? Perhaps it was the universe trying to teach me a lesson about ... fever down when it peaked that night as I scrambled to finish my 20 ... touch it, my defense mechanisms kicked in, reacting to the stressful

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  't receive a letter, now is a great time to sign up for MyMIT! It's also worth ... . This is also a good chance for students to meet their interviewer face-to ... don't have any questions find it interesting and helpful to hear other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  involves many a prank and snark. During their stays, each resident is to ...  one flight of stairs ok maybe that's a lie, i used to live on stickmen (which is ... satisfaction! I have a confession to make. After trying the Putz microwave, it

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  space in the gorgeous new building, but it's taking longer to get the lab up and running than everyone thought it would, so I decided to come ... .) Brain and Cognitive Sciences (or BCS, or course 9) is a small-to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  hello, after six years

  

  i find harder to talk about, have changed me and my relationship to writing. this is not possible to stop, how change continues to happen. i ... who really needs them to work, because that is where we find our care

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  will get to the place that is right for you, not just because of merit ... into MIT. I’d felt compelled to apply to the "match" school because it ... Admissions office knew I wouldn’t fit in. It was liberating for me to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  mattered. Embracing the unknown is always hard. But it's good to practice ... It's okay to feel anxious or excited or nervous. But if you can ... . Right now, it can feel like the most important thing in the world is what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  -curriculars, either in an essay or on the application form, try to make it more than a ... have is to be confidently relaxed. I hope that you have gone both through ... schools admit you, you'll go on to achieve great things in life. This is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  > weather," that I got it down to about 1300, which is still pretty bad. then ... tabs open on my phone to see if such a post would be worth doing. it was ... likely not closed [annotation note="any is an overstatement but it was

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  voicecracks and so forth. However, I am happy to say this is quite false. True ... learn to love science: What you might not have expected is that Erika ... One of the stereotypes of sci/tech/engineering schools like MIT is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  .033): Same as above. -Intro to Cosmology (8.286): It hurts to drop this class ... into this class on a masochistic whim and loved it. Whether I add it to ... is connected to anything, as long as I didn't have to pay more than $9

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  -Snowman League, was attached to the traffic cone. Let it be known, to whomever ... is, really big snowballs are REALLY heavy, and at the end of it we were ... a picture of this process, this is when we started to realize how big

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  lot out of the experience. It's kind of nice to settle down to classes, but I'm happy the summer went so well - it's good to be productive and ... office, which is always good.) Not to mention a few overnight train trips

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  assignments and learning content makes it so that you have to keep doing ... campus is that I get a lot of time to think for myself. So I have these ... it. it’s just that...i don’t think i have the skills to pursue STEM, y

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  , I realized that it would probably be in my best interest to take the ... path. And somehow I made it to the other side of campus. Somehow. But ... instead. But I eventually did make it back to my dorm--and, most

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  how "black box" some of it was. Maybe this is how I feel about computer ... studying the subject, since I found it was easy to "get by" by just doing the ... , they were like, "Dude, don't do it, that class is so hard." I also came

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  professor here. He is the coolest guy to talk to about ANYTHING. He has all ... there is a giant music free-for-all. Its definitely one of the most ... Cambridge/Boston is the town-y feel I get here. Its not as urban as NYC and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006