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• 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
• 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 / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2012

  

  not be able to offer them admission. At that point, we will consider our ... . However, this year, we saw an unprecedented, record-breaking percentage of ... have not been able to go to our waitlist. Today at 5pm Eastern Time, we

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 4, 2012
• 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 / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  you take advantage of what MIT has to offer, there are going to be ... whether you'll be able to take advantage of everything MIT has to offer for ... Okay, now for the next post addressing one of your requested topics

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  sororities, five of which are at MIT." Sororities are involved in academic ... Ever seen the first few minutes of Legally Blonde? MTV's reality TV ... , you know (just kidding!)? Just like everything else at MIT, sororities

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  what the name of Nance's baby is? We're very curious =D" I think I'm at ... . ------------------------------------- Kinan wrote, "I was just looking over at some of the comments that other ... " brochure, which I think does a very good job of offering suggestions for your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  hours of sleep, the scenery at Glacier National Park almost brought me to ... most of this hike at an average pace of 2.6-2.8 mph. This section of the ... smile encouragingly at me and say things along the lines of, "<

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• 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

  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 / 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 / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Class of 2026, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have offered early ... MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2026 are now ... , but still well above our pre-pandemic baseline of ~9,000 EA applications

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  required to buy x meals per week at the school dining halls. One of my ... pretty wide variety of food offered on any given day, so if you don't like ... I think I'm going to be fixating on food for a while, at least until

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  -- all feats of engineering he tried at camp -- were very much his style ... Continuing our series Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor '13 ... valedictorian Trevor Zinser reacts as an impromptu tower of paper cups collapses

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  for different categories at the end of the night. Hacking officially ... allotted. At MIT, there is a proud culture of making things (i.e. robotics ... still hard at work cutting the final pieces of cardboard. 5:23 PM

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017