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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  think tank, like the Brookings Institute. There are more varieties of ... Fund, or Fed (generally at one of the Federal Reserve's regional banks). You can also do this sort of work at places like the government's Office

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  now as it was at the beginning, and my perception is the result of insecurities on my part. On the opposite side of the coin, when I write too many ... have trouble writing this blog if those sorts of entries were the only

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  the chance to fly faster than the speed of sound, pull more Gs than any ... chance (which happens to be very good coming out of MIT) to have an awesome ... all of the "leadership positions" that I had held in high school. After

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  I'm approaching the end of the first month of my internship at a ... adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... the mechanical routine of a [annotation note="closer to a 9:45ish-to-5

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  moment that feels like it will define the rest of your life. You’ve got one ... the taste of rejection. You’ve made yourself sick to the stomach out of ... the beginning, it didn’t seem possible. It took a lot out of you to put

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  promise I haven't fallen off the earth! Coming off of pass/no record, though ... learning community that offers all of the core classes in smaller classes. It's a pretty big shift coming from the typical freshman classes of 200

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  less. So the classes happen over a shorter time frame. The scheduling of ... days of the week, for the whole month, like normal classes. One example ... the end of IAP. Instructors. There’s a lot of variety among people who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• 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…

  

  Scatterred throughout the years are probably dozens of blog entries ... like any good MIT student, 10 days of that has driven me absolutely insane, so it's back to productivitiy! Time to churn out the dozens of blog

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The city of Portland, Oregon was named for Portland ... detailing the future of fossil fuels in the United States. Although renewable ... released the MIT "Future of Coal" report -- there was a lot of interest in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  was Good at Math and Got A’s in Math and I thought that was the kind of ... scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my ... preservation.)   The protagonist of ThesisNovel is a high school senior

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  I love being at the most (a good thing since I spend most of my waking ... 't explain (the likes of which you won't see again until prom) and bandwidth ... not however the end-all deciding factor of whether or not you'll be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  'll highlight it in a future entry! A little background: back in the summer of 2003, the MIT News Office did a series of these articles called "Hometown ... of genius at age three or four. After returning from visits to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  again if we think it’s a good idea.” The following day, a channel was ... discord server, building on the organization of the old one, and a dedicated ... earned goes either to the Humanitarian Fund from the National Bank of

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  lot of pretty strong memories over the years. Throughout elementary ... say the very least, the bane of my existence throughout elementary and ... and have been in front of a computer since the age of 3 and never, ever

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  were as a member of my living community, the Burton Third Bombers. I had ... "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... submitted a pset within five minutes of the deadline twice. Only twice, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  've really been home that I'm on the verge of emailing housing and telling them ... that?? is that even REAL??). All of our student EMTs are certified in the state of Massachusetts, many via the class which is offered every IAP

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT salutes Harry Potter ...the best way we know how, with hacks!

  

  many, this is the end of an era that started with the release of the ... celebrated the series a number of times in the way we celebrate: with hacks ... Deathly Hallows, was being delivered to the doorsteps of muggles, the Dark

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  communities. Between the four villages, we got a pretty good idea of the needs of the urban and rural villages. When we weren’t working with GK, we ... to post a long long time ago, regarding the epic IAP 2010 travels of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  decided to go with the good old standby: duct tape. Of course, once I ... grocery shopping before. My roommate April wasted a good amount of money the ... , which was sort of interesting.) I showed the outfit to Adelaide, and she

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  the first session of the oil painting class I'm taking this semester, and sat by the Charles River with a group of forty-odd students for a ... doesn't really count. Wednesday marked a year since the death of an MIT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015