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• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  promise you, I'm actually a black female immigrant scientist. Please don't ... Adulthood. Don't quote me on that, as I'm only halfway through the decade. I ... experience was similar to Laura's, only I haven't yet Made It and I'm still not

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  This past March, a few days after my birthday, I spent a Saturday teaching three iterations of a three-hour-long class called Hands-on Introduction to DNA! to seventh through ninth graders at Spark, a day

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  will work for me. I'm not a big google calendar user, unlike some people ... 've been struggling this semester, in a way that I hadn't realized before ... I assess commitments and classes. (E.g… maybe I'm not a person who

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  I'm taking a break from playing all the video games in this video game bundle to tell you that you should buy it. Here's a list of some of ... designing a train system in a rapidly growing city. If it wasn't already clear

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  the mountains with their shadows. I'm sitting on the porch of a coffeehouse in the railyard with a spoonful of melted ice cream, accidentally ... the man across from me. He has a beard like Edward Abbey's and a red

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  Technology office (IS&T) offers a few pointers on laptop purchases ... I'm BAaaaaaaCK! Classes are building up, students are working, halls ... very new to me even though it's my 7th one here. I have been through a

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  . Do, however, take everything with a grain of salt. Also, don’t be ... I’m doing in the skills I applied on any given day — I don’t ... 's too late for clever puns, but I'm posting anyway

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  concert and spend New Years in a place that I wasn't allergic to. (No ... . Anyway, I'm still new here and don't know for sure whether my suite was ... be a huge deterrent for taking classes there. But don't worry, that

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  to watch, and I’m sure a suspicious number of teenagers had a newfound ... ? With the idea of love? It really was a shame that I couldn’t really ... with all great blog posts, we begin this one with a screencap: via

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  aiming for a class of about 1,040 students this year. Based on our ... "yield"), we admitted 1554 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  that a glass wall in my head shattered, because up until then i hadn’t ... , except instead of emptying my head i’m immersing it in a specific task i ... , and a lot of other unpleasant adjectives that i won’t list anyway, in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  someone and meet people. I don’t think I met a single stuck-up person ... As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh ... must admit that while I was very, very, very excited, I had a weird

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  ?" Slightly more. "How many can't decide?" A whole lot. If you're wondering I ... headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of Oust air sanitizer and a pack of Pringles chips. I worked on some puzzle

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  contained a red t-shirt. I was very excited and wore the shirt the very next ... into my safety school...a UC campus which shall remain nameless but didn't ... . I had a great experience here, but I'm also convinced that I could

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  interrupt my sleep (and nearly give me a heart attack - I'm not so keen on ... the cannon, leaving a cute toy one in its place. We weren't supposed to ... -made paper banner, and a grill with burgers and hot dogs. They didn't want to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  ," followed by what I'm sure will be a nice reception with the students. Ian ... workout with MIT Kung Fu...) [Finally, to answer a couple FAQ: No, we haven't ... So, my wife just popped by my office; it turns out she and a friend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  , which is also a totally cool job – head of the biggest (and best but don’t ... Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  a stressful week—aren’t most weeks here—but not enough to warrant this ... was around three a.m. on a Tuesday morning when, weak-eyed and drained ... couldn’t remember. I did a few practice exams. You need to understand

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will you send me materials/prospectus/t-shirt/pennant?

  We appreciate your interest in MIT! We don't send a lot of mail (and we don't send any international mail), but you can sign up for our ... requests for pennants, t-shirts, and other MIT items, but because we're a
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  I have a way of always picking really time-consuming HASS classes ... /Writing Poetry (21W.756), I'm almost as stressed out about my HASS classes as lab and 8.06. I really love both these classes though. I'm this walking

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008