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• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  (at least for me) OX'ing a class at the end of a semester exists as a ... Sometimes you put a lot of effort into something and the external ... 's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  at the ripe age of twenty-one i am beginning to feel my body weaken ... of workouts, i’ve begun a habit of working out at 2am on friday nights ... teenager i could walk in shorts in 40 degree (fahrenheit) weather without any

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  Penguins at LSC for the impossible-to-adequately-reiterate low price of three ... at LSC. It's absolutely one of the most amazing movies I've seen in a ... . The Rime of the Ancient Mariner can be sung to the tune of the "Gilligan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  ). If you just want to see the fruits of our labor/insomnia, show up at ... was able to buy one of the last tickets at 3 AM. Thanks to Dave, the ... actually not too heavy on the wallet at all: $15 gas tolls: $3.60 x 2 = 7

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  time I heard about (or at least, really considered) MIT was at the end of ... : Personally, I think MIT has been at the periphery of my knowledge for a long time, but my first explicit memory of it is visiting at the end of eighth

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  -- back when many of them were at MIT, course 9 was just psychology; the ... "Material Girl" at the top of your lungs. I found a pair of 4-inch Steve ... to real life. A GRT is MIT's version of an RA -- I guess at most

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  trading, and research. I have never worked at one of these jobs, but from ... 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 / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  before starting at Stanford next year. We both always have a ton of ... first semester of my master's degree here. GPA isn't that important for my ... Twitter. Since my blogs do a decent job of encompassing how 2022 went for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  through 12, 13, even 14 years of school. What is four more at that point? Or ... amazing. I wrote this essay during my freshman fall here at MIT and thought it might be of interest to you! Enjoy, and comment. Derailment

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  distributed at a swanky event at Top of the Hub, a very classy restaurant at the ... at his feet, there are reeds in the form of the Roman numerals for 24 ... background, the Stata Center (opened at the beginning of my junior year at MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  stand at roughly 70 degrees. I’d drawn up the designs earlier that week ... On New Year’s Day, I got a tattoo of a saguaro. Saguaros are massive: ten, twenty feet of towering spiny cactus. They dot the desert

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  medicine at the slightest sign of a recurring cough or a stuffy nose that ... 's worth of medicine. At MIT, I'm covered under the MIT Extended Student ... for $11,000 USD, the cost of a 3-day inpatient stay at the county

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Reischauer Scholars Program For those interested in Japan or international relations.

  

  degree of expertise about Japan that may have a significant impact on their ... entry including the secrets of how to live your life, get into MIT and ... international relations at all, you should definitely check it out. REISCHAUER

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week: Anjum Sharma A salute to one final senior.

  

  Name: Anjum Sharma Hometown: Perkasie, PA Degree and Minor: 15 with a ... just so happy at these events and it was amazing to get together with ... time with Matt McGann and the rest of the advising group freshman year. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  dropped out of high school and earned a GED at 17. So I'm a first ... department/school, at Medical, at Student Support Services, and so on. Lack of ... one happy profile out of many different ones at MIT. All I want is for

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  ... getting to go home at 5 pm and have the rest of the night to yourself ... As of one week ago, it is officially[annotation note="and oh boy does the weather know it... i swear it jumped like 5 degrees celsius as soon

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  (Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a ... with a cute story about his first day of grad school at MIT. He told us

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  each other's lives. Even with at least four months of separation, though ... weekend of the BCS championship game in Gainesville with my friends at UF ... I'm back at Senior Haus. It feels great - already I've been part of a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  my first all-nighter of the fall term. Well, I don't really believe in ... really cool article. Then on midnight of the 12th day of the festival, a ... the star of fire to reach the zenith. Once it did, the priest would

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  majoring in Biology, began working in the Langer Lab at MIT in November of ... integral part of my education at MIT. Currently, I study and work on a number ... Robert Langer, an MIT Chemical Engineering professor, is one of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006