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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  idea pop into my head at the strangest of moments, and quickly jot it ... meantime, I'm out enjoying all that Oregon has to offer in the way of ... you can use it. It's actually one thing I wish there was more of at MIT

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  , bad one.) The timing of the talk wasn’t great; it started at 7 pm ... one of the biggest lecture halls at MIT, there were far more fans than ... alone love, and Jhumpa Lahiri is one of them. The Pulitzer Prize winning

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  FIRST OF ALL: In case that you haven't thought of enough reasons to come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out ... anything to do, FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS IS GOING TO BE IN BOSTON ON APRIL 17

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  . Dear Ella,  We have completed our early action review of your ... 't read the rest of the email. I turned the windshield wipers back on. I ... lot of attention to MIT Admissions. I didn't read the blogs. I didn

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  legal and okay amount of classes to take, and it means that my schedule ... doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... really could've prepared me for the reality of it. It's a genuine timesuck

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  lot of the time my purpose in being at such a highly regarded ... i recently experienced my first weekend at mit with classes finally in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  ’ll be living in Central Square with three roommates - one of us a teacher, the other three getting master's degrees at MIT. Tomorrow is ... is actually very good, starting at Massachusetts minimum wage of $14

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  this IAP?" "Oh, you know. I'm working at a startup in San Francisco ... next generation e-commerce startup. In stealth mode." By October many of ... with job opportunities offered by MIT alumni. These positions cover

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weather Sensitive I know you think that I don't care, but I really do.

  

  're walking through forty degrees of nitrogen, oxygen, and ice cubes, but that's about it. This concept of leaves falling off trees? Yeah. Completely ... said, I present to you three pictures of the view from my window. Early

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  building was realized after spending a lot of his undergrad years at MIT ... ’m currently a junior at MIT majoring in course VI-III. Melis has graciously offered me to write a guest blog, and I thought it was a great time to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  ’ll remember for the rest of my life - sitting on the beach at 3 am, surrounded ... their equipment is located at the top of the Green Building, so he has ... of power tools and construction. I’m not handy in the slightest, but at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  all levels of preparation. I've known people whose schools didn't offer ... You've now had a chance to post lots of questions. Now it's my turn ... ? Primarily biology? Chemistry? Mathematics? A little bit of everything? It

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  of time and blog. I promise I have a good reason though! Most people at ... do it all now. It's okay to jog instead of run. Keep up at a steady ... importantly though, remember the BIG picture. At the end of the day, it doesn

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  time, I flirted with the idea of majoring in History at some really ... in college). Given all of this, I turned down offers to Brown ... Department of Literature (21L) offers an exciting series of literature classes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  your life at MIT. And if art isn't already a part of your life, but you ... eleventy million other areas. Classes are offered at every level, so you can ... I woke up at 8 this morning after passing out on my computer around 4

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  my friends that I have a 4.0 at MIT! Granted, none of them know that we ... everywhere. At the end of August, after you've been here for about a week ... unpublished post of mine from nearly three weeks ago. Apparently I started

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  up for preferred dining at a cost of $300 per semester, which simply ... administrators and students, was set up to explore new options. At the end of this ... simultaneously open; perhaps they'll have one or two that close at 10pm instead of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  choice?" President Hockfield: "There is a huge amount of choice at MIT, and ... there." "We look at athlete aerodynamics. Instead of athletes using drugs ... than taking tours at other campuses," said Amadeo. This year's CPW offers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  insane degree. Coffee was a part of my identity in,,, perhaps an almost ... Sinclair. At one point in the show, Esther is described to be the sort of ... CJ historian but for the history of myself throughout the years, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  'd worked very hard like many of you, and wanted to continue my education at a ... where there was a lot to do outside of just being at school. Sample ... 12 years of public school education could do for me. I started applying

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006