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• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  I'll put it here: " We are one of the largest and friendliest dorms ... out, have fun, and enjoy their time at MIT. Situated on the banks of the Charles River, Next House offers stunning views of the riverfront

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  with four potential PhD advisors... and eating a lot of free food (and ... half recruitment, and by all accounts they're pretty fun. In other areas of my life (aka lab), things are going spectacularly. I developed a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport ... . You're in spot A-12." Okay, I thought. A midsize instead of a compact ... price of a subcompact. Dude. I opened the door and was flooded with "new

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  to actually read the name of the dorm they've been assigned to AND get ... afterwards we all got a chance to meet President Hockfield. (By the way, the T-shirt I'm wearing is from CityDays, the Orientation event sponsored by MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  people to come just by buying a bunch of these cannoli and advertising them ... have a great time." However, still, it's one of those things that I never ... my old high school friend Alaina. Turns out she and three of my other

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  taking pictures by that time. So yeah. It was a fun party. The Children of ... Newbury Street could fit on the palm of my hand. So I puzzled for a while ... of clothing were supposed to go with other articles of clothing. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  transition. And in one sentence, I've completely ruined your hope of being ... piece of parchment lodged in the mouth of a dazzling, sparkling horse of ... high school of 2,000+, graduating class of 620, class sizes of about 20

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  . By the time you get beyond those classes, your lack of background ... prefers 9 or 9.5. Ah, the mysteries of life. Also, during term, my body is ... : - Played with my eight year-old brother - Watched most of the complete series

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  The MIT Monologues performed last weekend. MITMo is an offshoot of the Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, but all of our monologues are written by current or past MIT students, about experiences we’ve lived

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  snacks to munch on in between the dancing. Most of it was gone by the time ... Some of you may wonder: how do people eat food without a meal plan? Well, dear mortals, I have perfected the art of photosynthesis and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  will be "Pulsars"...Please confirm acceptance of this offer by 5:00 PM ... than that, and spent all of Thursday grinning like a crazy person. The ... out that I need to get all four of them removed... And so on. Each

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  fulfill them. Having passed by most of the GIRs now (and still with no idea ... political and social undertones, a fair amount of pure luck and championed by ... , kind of. I`m almost 300 pages through Matt Ridley`s "The Rational

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  ... but I've been really hosed these past 2 weeks. -Freeze- For those of you ... floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the ... . Tests every couple of weeks (I just took my first couple tests this past

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

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  Battle of the Bands is an annual CPW event hosted by ZBT where a bunch of ... , I still had a blast; so, regardless of weather, get ready for the most jam-packed days you'll have until you come for Orientation of course

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  entry by saying that I don’t normally do this much networking or eat this ... -clogging breakfast. Yum. 9:15 AM: Grabbed a cup of tea with Minh from the Lobby 7 ... for (several) pictures. By the way, in their free time they model for AT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  /effort that could make sense of anything in my brain Getting killed by your ... , sleepless summer nights that are occupied by warm conversations instead of ... alone blog. I wanted to do an end-of-the-year reflection but thought it

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and ... would study crystallization temperature and glass transition point by learning exactly how their graphs are derived, and probably plenty of

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  Believe it or not, one of the most enjoyable experiences of my MIT ... of time before dinner, which is really fantastic for getting research done. On the other hand, notice how I have six hours of class on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  the end of an entire part of my life’s novel, looming close by with its ... continue to the next, comforted by the seemingly endless cycle of academia ... I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  it with a road 45 degrees offset from most of the city, how hunters ... afraid of upsetting the chinese government, and so on   ii. of ... , so i will try to give a concise summary based on my understanding of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022