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• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  sweet. What are you up to for the rest of the summer? I’m working on ... Redmond, WA And what are you up to? Product mechanical engineer intern at ... , trying to wrap up the current project and then moving onto the next one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  ’re really not kidding. I found myself waking up on May 19 with no plans for ... the hooding ceremony for MIT doctorate students and shipping out of ... an entire box of bananas for a buck, and made something like three

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  heating up the front seat of my compact car. I was drinking an ice coffee ... for all of us in this technological age to occasionally turn off our ... think up something wonderful. And it seemed to me that this sentiment was

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  'm heading home to South Bend for a week to recover and recharge before ... Bring Home pile will eventually end up in one of my big red suitcases (clothes, toiletries, super-secret gift for my parents and sisters) or my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  Pain for a post-On The Air engineer training (me)/post-radio show (her ... summer, but then I got the ambulance job up here so I'm staying in Boston instead. But I can email them for you!" In response, I said this: "At this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  & Grad School)' section; check it out for further reading on this topic ... . Careers AND Grad School. Thursday: Wake up at 5:05 AM. Board taxi to Logan Airport. Fly to Houston, TX for a day long interview. Now keep in mind, I

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  -of-crowd, at least for this year. A week prior to our planning meet-up, I ... days swung wildly up and down. The more I pushed myself, the greater ... bags for a bustling East Coast adventure. This year, we went on a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  these blogs, does not. So for Mom V. (<3), here’s a crash course ... velocity of something as it moves for a set amount of time. You went for a ... would be like my time at MIT prepared me for the wrong thing and then when

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  . For dinner Saturday, I met up with some people from summer camp (NJ ... By Ming Lu The Thursday morning of CPW, I woke up bright and early ... with Edward, another ‘12 from a town near by mine. We met up at the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  one would notice for weeks; these include things like "big iff [if and ... scooting around campus much less from now on :o For the past 3 years, my ... . No easy way of getting around at all. For the most part, this was fine

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  to the US and to carry with me for the rest of my life. I wanted to ... the new year offered.   WINTER Packed up my life in Boston ... teaching at a high school for MISTI Global Teaching Labs, and traveled around

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  , when I came up with a couple of guesses for various items, namely images ... ended up finding about an item a day for a week or so. I also ended up ... unhappy with you for saying that. giving up and giving forward CJ: By the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  still incredibly grateful for. [carousel image1="64168" image2="64169" image3="64141" /] There was a check-in process for first-year students ... the low-rise (F entry), so there is no elevator. For info, Macgregor has

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  signed up for the EECS-job-mailing-list as well as the Game Lab mailing ... 'm psetting or working; I stay up for the people. I cannot tell you how many ... dates actually. *excitedly gets up and rapidly looks for her phone. She

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  in its exterior it more than makes up for in its inhabitants and its ... always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to ... house. instead of studying 6.857 notes like i should be or writing up the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  person--growing up, my mom signed me up for a million different sports ... 've been holed up in my room doing work for the past few days unless you ... One of the events for the class of 2024's [annotation note

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  motivation. ??:?? it's a good idea to wake up for work tomorrow, so i guess it ... 8:00 AM wake up. check my clock and go back to sleep. 9:00 AM actually wake up. i take a shower, stop being naked, and am ready to head out

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... . We will grant a deferral for almost any reason (but generally not for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  . Pulling up to the speaker, Eric ordered two baked-not-fried apple pies for a ... physics problem sets, sketches for a full-length blues arrangement for jazz ... elusive nature, up above the world so high, appearing like diamonds in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  you plan to do. We will grant a deferral for almost any reason. Come up ... taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008