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• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  ever find yourself at MIT with 48 hours of absolutely nothing worth doing ... on the bus to Times Square. The eye-frazzling shock of Manhattan at ... . Settling at last into a posh-yet-Zenlike bench at one of the swankier, less

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  January?" Please email admissions at mit dot edu to advise of January tests ... Freshman)? 1. You can be at MIT for all of, part of, or none of IAP -- it ... 's degree. [...] Do I have any chance of getting in to the Physics M

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Truth About Science comic-style.

  

  ) Quinton caught me napping at South Station last week :( (2) IT'S 99 DEGREES ... So the good news is that the series of scientific mishaps I blogged ... spend a significant portion of the next 72 hours taking full advantage of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  throughout most of that book. Merudh: so hows the cafeteria food at MIT? you ... students usually try to get their money's worth of it. At the same time ... -packed week. The beginning of the week was either pretty lame or well

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  category of cultural differences like "toilets are heated and have a fake ... bring new challenges everyday. At the very least, I had a run down of ... 're sliders and levers. Room doors don't have hinges to open into or out of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  ="only REAL CANADIAN MAPLE SYRUP THOUGH, none of you Americans' terrible fake ... syrup. sorry !"]maple syrup.[/annotation]At risk of sounding like an ... myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  -floor rooms of Building 4 here at MIT. Although the movie producers got the ... Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I'll share a few of my thoughts and observations after having seen 21 this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  --even data collected from the test itself shows this.   BEWARE OF FAKE ... . This did feel like a more accurate description of myself, but at the same ... This post began with my long-standing hatred of Myers-Briggs tests

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  rest of us, left with nothing else to do, ended up standing at the stage ... Chamber Chorus at 9:30. I always arrive slightly late, completely out of ... walls of academia, where, it seems, I am destined to end up at some point

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  of the city where I was born. I felt the calling. Actually, I also ... high school. I take the free bus down to the other end of 16th Street ... to the ticket window. I give people the benefit of the doubt, but I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  (This entry courtesy of the free wireless internet at the Hotel ... -five biology programs, and my training will be excellent at all of them; what I ... particularly useful. In biology at least, a masters degree won't really get you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  days of the firefly music festival. it was absolutely amazing; Tame ... friends in the last week of the semester. there was an ungodly amount of ... get to perform at OVRDRV, Boston University's dance showcase, and Dance

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  (aero/astro) major at MIT. we spent the first day of class watching videos of very fancy automatic control systems at work, like variable ... of the capstone options for the aeroastro degree. in true mens

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  to go to classes and stuff, so he was expelled at the end of his ... readmitted in 1936. Now, at MIT, passing a typical class earns you 12 units of ... as many as you want as long as you take at least half of your units at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  much different than the sort of thing you'd find at your local YMCA ... . Arguably the most famous route at Smith Rock (besides the one on the front of ... along at 1:13, and of course there's the glorious rappel at the end, which

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  have had a lot of interesting conversations at my fraternity about how T ... (Principle Investigator) at some University. A PI is the head of a lab at a ... MIT is, at the very least, interesting when it comes to biology. You

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  , although the only evaluation for Cambridge occurs at the end of the year in ... deal of preparation and are significantly harder than most exams at MIT ... promptly forget a great deal of the material they supposedly absorbed. At

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  for the first half of the summer had only one real “deadline”, and that was towards the beginning of the project. I could work at my own speed ... learned in class to the “mini-quizzes” at the end of some lectures; Tuesday

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  accomplished what I set out to do: earn my graduate degree…at the cost of ... which an institution offers you glory, but at the cost of sacrificing ... Take in the familiar sights, smells, and faces of your community. Can

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Good Luck Jo-Jo!

  

  (Jo-Jo) Chang '03. I first met Jo-Jo my senior year at MIT, when I was serving as President of the Undergraduate Association, and she was serving ... degree in Electrical Engineering, Joanne now works as a management

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2005