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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to ... internships to fill all of the time I would otherwise have been in school. This ... -negotiated one of them to start in the spring. By late June, I had finalized my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  cryptography for security. A blockchain is stored on every node in the network ... that uses it. One of the most interesting companies I've seen in this ... project. Just one problem. The deadline to register was in July. I didn

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  would be worrying about how much stuff there is still to do tonight." I ... final toy. It's the first project in the course designed for students to ... in Boston, the real secret is that the best froyo comes from this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  like a tourist" guide is not to stand around like a moo cow in front of ... there. At MIT, we refer to rooms in a format like this: 10-100 (the Admissions Reception Center). This means that the room is in building 10, on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  was the most prestigious to which I had been accepted (and because Jon ... Guard was called in to put down drunken riots, I felt far outside the ... counted the days to graduation. Whereupon, in May 2009, I immediately

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  to help us bring in money from sponsors, and win the most prestigious ... . And embarrassing. One of the worst parts is when people who believe in ... this mistake infinitely many times in the past, continues to do so now

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  longest I’ve spent listening to one audiobook is “The Source,” by James ... the same book twice in three months. Most importantly, I discovered ... ;1/3 of my music listening. It’s mostly to discover new songs

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  " /] Firehose is one of the most popular schedule planning tools at MIT. You can ... 's probably the easiest way to find a simple list of classes in a particular ... some of the other resources listed above. Talking to People In particular

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  summer is still comprehensive enough for you to take what you will from it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO ANY SUMMER PROGRAM TO GET INTO MIT, by the way. I ... and Politics the next summer) and really enjoyed it - so much so that I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  in the 70s, we have come to understand much of its genetics well and ... checking out the most beautiful girl in the lab (see below). ....just ... resulted in the 2006 Nobel Prize in Medicine. This is more commonly known

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  awkward situation. While it didn’t want to appear indifferent in the ... Sudan].” This action is without precedent in the Institute’s ... to raise awareness of the crisis in Darfur and purchase solar cookers

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  firsts. My goal, though cliché, was to stay in the present, appreciate each and every moment, and take it all in. Most of the places and people I ... , put most in storage, and moved out of my room Competed at the 2018 US

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  4000 K is hot enough to melt every element in the periodic table. Of ... friends in Course 3 have been able to answer. In the movie "Fantastic Four ... heating cycle in the first place. The other possibility is that the heating

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  [annotation note="Not to mention all the in-between cookies-and-cream patterns ... proved quite the opposite. My camera roll continued to grow with zoomed-in ... .” Initially, I knew better than to trust a book written by a gas company. I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who else is watching infinity train?!?! *a fangirling hub that we will update every day this week*

  

  ! Glad One and Sad One talking to each other is the best thing. "When it ... circle to a half circle to show he is annoyed. Randall the water blob was ... episode to write about it in more detail and we are noticing the ROUNDNESS

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  much at peace. Last night I went to see the opening night premiere of ... juiced was for The Matrix: Revolutions, and don't expect to be in one again ... -Pakistan conflict and how it continues to affect even South Asians in the United

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  by? Holly: I think the most interesting artist to me right now is ... to interpret my own art too much. What are the logistics behind this ... MIT Art Scholars, so that was like a group show. Mostly to show the Art

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  The semester is over and I'm back at home, spread out on my much too ... the time in the world for me to sit, staring at the ceiling, letting my ... in awe. That the sky burst with this kind of color most days. And the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  “Santa Clause is Coming to Town” is much more metrically flexible than ... nary a mine since bidding goodbye to the tender age of microwaved pizza ... prototyped during the Vietnam War to sharpen the reflexes of future army

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  you that in the world that I come from -- and you'll get to experience ... orders in the computer. It might hard to imagine, but one day you'll be able to read this CT scan with ease: Hey, it sucks in the beginning

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016