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• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  at MIT and in Boston. Several of the most gay-friendly living groups ... 't. naventus wrote, "Haha glad to see you read slashdot too? Lots of people at ... , regardless of major (as all UROPs at MIT are). In short, yes, you will be able

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  , maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a ... mailing list). But being at home, I knew practice of any sort would be hard ... quarters. And a quarter means one out of four… at this point, I’m not even

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  . It has been 45 degrees and raining for the last week. Yes, this is ... I'd heard that Anna '02 (like Rax, an alum of my hall, and now a grad student at Caltech) was in town and going to be there. I like Anna, and with

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly ... like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am ... somebody else will take care of my life. iii. This is my theory about age

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  at the intersection and combination of EECS and BCS in Course 6-9. Two ... whatever classes they want, within the constraint of satisfying their degree ... this list, you can perhaps get a look at how pursuing one avenue of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  reading. When I go to bed at three, it’s more of a bleary couple pages, but ... at the grocery store, a shortage of guns. But there are also scenes ... killers, and a tavern at the end (or the intersection) of worlds, where

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;The next morning I woke up at 6AM and began a full day of school visits. How ... students to take many of their upper level courses at a local community ... , where I had a Central Meeting at the Qualcomm corporate offices in one of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  . ***ATS = Association of Taiwanese Students. I am neither Taiwanese nor an association of any sort, but thanks to ATS, I'm now Taiwanese by association ... dish under 375 degree heat. A modest serving of leftover bread stuffing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Center See a show at the Museum of Science Ice skate on Frog Pond Go ... too late to do some of these things. Take a class at Harvard or ... heads together and did 13 of them in 2 days (MIT students are experts at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  Is this thing on? Um, okay. Some of you are probably like me and come from one of those families where you are the only one who knows how to turn on the computer, change the height of your mom's office chair

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  description of life as a doctor -- it just got a little graphic at times, and ... Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  little hazy on the distinction of what makes an engineering leader, so at ... little more important. I’m at the phase of my life where I’m deciding ... time at MIT or if I want to jump into a career straight out of college

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  out of 7.28 (Molecular Biology) at 1 PM, stopped by the lab for about 15 ... Newbury Streets; both are streets with a high concentration of shops, restaurants, and salons (read: girly girl paradise). I bought a cute skirt at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  's How I Take Care of Myself at one of the most stressful colleges in the ... to study at one of the most famous STEM institutions in the world. Yet ... reminded me of SAD just last Thursday. I was at the Massachusetts Science and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  ("Hitting the slopes at MARC") looks the coolest, but #2 ("SEM photo of ... that were MIT alumni: Cecil Green (MS 1924): Founder of Texas ... affiliated with successful startups, so they will throw a lot of money at you

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  . Regardless of your opinion of him, he is at least definitely one of the best in ... some sort of Associates’ Degree, from a community college*. So I became ... and March. There were a lot of emotional things going on at MIT, and in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  people In Real Life has always kind of freaked me out to some (albeit small, and rapidly decreasing) degree, and my composure will vary drastically ... topic of conversation, and how much sleep I got the previous night. Not

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  weeks at the start of freshman fall, and then dropped because i had too ... has a video of Sophie throwing a big bouncy ball right at us (this was a ... and i popped down to one of the halls at the new england conservatory to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  ’t be returning in September. At the start of May, the end of my ... -way ticket home. There was a semblance of relief, knowing that years of toiling away at problem sets, preparing for exams, and pulling all-nighters had

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  is 221 feet at a 75-degree angle. It reaches speeds of 77 miles per ... looked at that first drop, I felt genuinely scared of a coaster for the ... before, because 5th East was going to Six Flags New England, courtesy of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005