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• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  . To be a creative writer at MIT, there’s a certain amount of going ... My friend Eric recently wrote a blog post about isolation at Harvard ... at their own universities—student populations filled with clout

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  working really hard for an MIT degree. MIT kids are really good at delayed ... the percentage of MIT students living at dorms owning a TV set ... a pretty generous designation for that rather sizable piece of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  research the history of gender discrimination and Title IX at MIT. I first ... the Schools of Science and Engineering at MIT showed further ... of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Arizona, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  spending much later at an ungodly hour of the night. To me, this also ... , since it doesn't have my laptop in it at that pictured moment (Yes, I am ... .) (Or, actually, since last week, when a friend of mine from Tufts said I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  that story all over again. I thought getting my bachelor's degree would be the end of my formal education, but here I am applying to graduate ... that you tried your best and that is all you should expect of yourself

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  and three degrees of firmness. Though, in his own words, it took him "a ... in heaven. Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of attending the Ig Nobel awards ceremony in H****** Square. The "Igs," sponsored by a bunch of Mensa

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an indication of complete Americanization. The dishwasher is a rare kitchen appliance in most countries outside of the US and apparently many immigrants

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  time for cleaning and organization with the sound of music. At the end ... and 8 hours at home, a 4-0-8 scheme. Lab/design/field work classes have ... 3-0-9, 5-0-7, etc. There are also classes of a different number of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  with our mom near the shore at night. We saw a dark moving spot in the ... years ago!) This summer, one of our goals was to find another sea turtle ... more than 2 months to no avail… One of the nights we wrote a poem with

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  receive a Masters degree in some area of engineering combined with an MBA ... ! Movie! Two things I do significantly less of when I’m at MIT is drive and ... . Working at the front desk of a dorm means you meet a lot of residents, help

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  the MIT community at any stage in the process of of starting a company ... to give you a taste of the types of speakers at the program: Drew ... entrepreneurial culture at MIT. President Reif is a fan of StartMIT! Photo credit

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  movies watched way too late at night. In the absence of doing these things ... income to spend at a really nice tattoo parlor. What is the tattoo of, you ... recently. Having the time to read at the end of every day is a luxury that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  Masters of Engineering concurrently with finishing your bachelor's degree ... seriously; don't try any of those at home :)"]safely[/annotation] in the ... business day. I miss having most of my friends at an arm’s reach.   It

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  'll go to class, but at the end of the day I just want to go home, back to ... out anymore; I usually go to bed at the oh-so-early hour of 1 AM. I ... aside the ethics of saying that to a child, I was glad to hear it at the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  partially agree with you. :) The vast majority of people at MIT are ... Science' degree?" Yes, at the undergrad level. If you major in Literature ... ?" Well, you see, of the 11 undergrad dorms, only one, McCormick, is all

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing at the University of ... apply for the Master of Library Science program at the University of ... Between June 1st and today, I have: written 5 versions of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  skeptical of my chances at getting into Microsoft, because I had only taken ... . And out of all three teams at Microsoft I applied to, I only got ... strawberries in a bowl, then bake at 365 degrees for 20 minutes." (Baking

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  at the expense of putting something else off until later. Being in my ... I'm writing this blog post sitting on my bed in my room at home in ... degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  of researchers at (some) museums. S. S. responded, I think my parents ... that that was the case. Also, are there a lot of physics majors at MIT ... available resources! - There are, relatively, quite a lot of physics majors at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  at some of some of the blogging highlights of Ben's 4 years (and 194 ... months, those little blogs, buried at the bottom of the page, were getting ... thousands of hits each week and requests to speak at national admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008