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• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  was a bogus idea, and that it wasn't for me, and now I'm vice president ... . Now that I'm a senior, I can do the same for the young'ns. Living with a ... same year. I didn't really know any current students, and I surely was

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  because they simply couldn't afford a four-year college (apparently the ... reply from miles away sriram a student from India Sriram, I'm not quite ... ? I love to work. I'm a hard worker. But I'm not so smart when it comes

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  you an other way to spend IAP, I don't think I'm off the topic too much ... A belated happy new year! 　（あけまして、おめでとうございます！） So I'm in Japan this IAP! Last IAP, I spent it in Madrid, with MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  Burchard Scholars and Arts Scholars programs, I'm taking a drawing class ... stolen from the Internet. I'm an idiot and didn't bring my camera.] We ... 1, dove off my bed, and flung my laptop open. Gmail couldn't load fast

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  mentioned that I was working on a project for ICE-T that involved the ... cartridges of 22 M formic acid at all times, that's going to add up to a lot of ... DID YOU KNOW? Igor Stravinsky has a star on the Hollywood Walk of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  where we don't have access to campus. But what's a community or culture without the people? Branding is important, but you don't need to wear a ... someone wearing a Bomber shirt ten years in the future who I don't vibe with

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  from India each year. In short, don't worry. blank wrote, "i'm into a ... admissions department. So, if you call or e-mail your EC and don't receive a ... an R&D center at a chemical plant, so when I interview there, I don't

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  day in my life except it’s a live blog

  

  class i'm not sure how to phrase this in a way that doesn't come off as ... . there should be a people mover here so we don't have t wait outside in the ... breakfast. it's T time. 10:35 AM: im currently sitting in a dunkin with an

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  stuff I'm studying. A lot of people, even at MIT, don't really ... . Literature is art; literacy is a basic skill. And even the stuff that isn't ... down a mathematical object which both does and doesn't have a certain

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  time here is at like 10:30 a.m. every morning (random much?), where line ... wore a t-shirt nonetheless, it's only because I have a jacket to wear ... like accidentally drop a box of pipettes and cough every five minutes

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  looked at you with furrowed brows and a surprised look. Why? Why I’m ... parents. And while sales did happen all the time, they also didn’t happen a ... themselves—at least many of them didn’t. A lot of times, I had to take a breath

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  's why I haven't been writing so much. I'm scared to document anything I won't like in the future. As a challenge to myself, I'm putting my ... grow alongside me. I'm rubbing it in further. Each year, I'll add a few

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  class and give a 50-minute presentation with overheads. He doesn't usually ... stops to answer them at length, and if she doesn't have time for a ... thing. So, nice, slightly awkward TA, I'll cut you a deal. I won't tell

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  reading and for being a great audience. This isn't to say that this is ... , and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I ... , and the applications were simply fantastic. I'm sad that we have to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  that I hadn’t actually carried any cash or card. Mind you, Target is a ... . And then there’s my cooking fails. I’m not on a meal plan for reasons ... wonders why I don’t use a rice cooker. Tries to explain that we Kenyans like

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  a long, tedious process that I wasn't a part of since I had class from ... for 11 more months, so...there's a lot of potential for it. I'm really ... At the beginning of September, I moved into a new house! It's 10

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  come back for a phd, which I’m not currently planning but isn’t out of ... stipend."]pays[/annotation]a lot better too). But I’m still here, in the ... won’t be in Cambridge at all. I'll be working a job somewhere, a job I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  little more wary and a little less [annotation note="To be fair I don't ... As CPW comes to a close and I watch eager beaver high schoolers drag their far too clunky suitcases onto the airport shuttle, I feel a pang of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  much more uncomfortable than sleeping on a regular bench (which isn't ... , but really I'm laughing because I can't figure out how to get up without ... some pictures. Look, it's me, and I'm STANDING ON A MAJOR LEAGUE

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  throughout the Z-Center. This year, I didn't succumb to the frenzy of: This ... most of these t-shirt bearing tech companies in this reality. Instead, I ... if any companies 1) interested me or 2) would be interested in a CMS/7

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014