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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  seriously in the professional world, I had to be literally serious and kind of ... . Kind of sad, but honestly? Having the MIT credentials freed me up to lean ... for the 20th anniversary of the blogs, I originally hadn’t planned on

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2016!), that ... MIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only available to ... the Medical Release Form. Notes to the wise: if you're flying in, book

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Sometimes we have fun Pictures, pictures, pictures

  

  ). This year we went to the Park Plaza Hotel. It was a lot of fun: live ... Leslie '10, and one of the coolest people to ever major in Course 10 ... miss being here just the same. There was so much I wanted to tell you

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  moments free from anxiety about posting slices of my life to the public ... school application cycle in the Fall of 2011. I applied to 27 schools but ... for the first time. Vidya, aware of my unprovable connection to the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  . Basically, we send a bunch of people to another school for the afternoon where ... calculate the answer. So I made up my own weird method of calculation based on ... found out that all of my finals were crammed into the first two days of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  to a building across the river in search of a Boston frat, in the dark ... & Comp homework out of the way before I get too tired to function. So ... . Drained by the calculations, which to me just looked like hieroglyphics

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  across the river in Boston. It's basically an excuse for companies to give out tons of free stuff and market to the college crowd. Alas, I didn ... ) I am now 21 years of age 3) Spectrum wrote an article about me 4) The

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2015!), that ... MIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only available to ... Release Form. Notes to the wise: if you're flying in, book your plane

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  good idea of who I am – random, likes artsy stuff, etc, etc. But to round out the intro: I’m a freshman @ MIT, trudging through endless piles of ... tour of the second half of Calculus I in six insane weeks. Now it’s the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  named after Nike, the god of victory. So, according to the German work ... , "Being smart isn't knowing all the answers. It's knowing where to find them ... most of the vendors in a French resort town to speak a little English

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say ... to maybe 20-25% of the students in each year. But it's big enough that ... at MIT- and 5 of them are women. Luckily, the ratio of men to women

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  the vast majority of your peers passed the swim test as fresh-off-the ... hobbling around on crutches, and didn't get to take the swim test with your ... 's possible to arrange to take the test at a different time. "Try going to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  resembling a normally shaped ball. But, to the rest of the world, football is what we call soccer. And to Europe, it's been the focus of everyone ... excited even to make it to the quarter finals. I watched all but one of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  of a fear that I wouldn't do it "right" or I wasn't "smart enough" to ... tiling managers, as Raymond had raved to me about the power of them in ... order to customize i3, per the instruction of the videos. After using i3

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  Peter Singer: I think this quote cuts to the core of the book: “if it is ... , more than ever, it is so easy to save the life of a child in poverty for the cost of a new pair of shoes. And I think it’s more than fair to say

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  wandered around the area just to sort of take in the ambience. Our group ... rest of us, left with nothing else to do, ended up standing at the stage ... , I emerge renewed, ready to face the day ahead of me. There is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  I couldn't figure out how to calculate the standard error of my GPA. Then I tried to plot the hours of sleep vs. number of units taken ... also reminds me of the time I tried to track my caffeine intake vs. sleep

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  factor." MIT was one of the schools I applied to because it was "that ... 's. Back in the Fall of 2002, I set out on a journey that is still ongoing. I started applying to college. I went into the whole process knowing that I

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  '08 had seen March of the Penguins, so she knew that the best way to get ... , torrential rain to otherwise lovely places, the weather today at the beach was ... minutes immediately after getting to the beach before we realized that it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  Compared to the previous, this semester was less tumultuous, more of ... to the touch. Due to the nature of photography, completing assignments ... , large-scale work, but I also want to retain the childlike feeling of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024