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• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  'VE PICKED A PERMANENT LIVING GROUP!* "I feel better having screamed, don't ... writing this from a computer in EPFL's Brain Mind Institute, where I work. I'm ... much a lot of the stuff written in the MIT forum (and elsewhere, for that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Preparing for CPW

  

  Scandinavia and I think it's time for a little update. Forgive me, though, for not writing a whole lot this evening -- I'm still on Stockholm time, and ... Campus Preview Weekend is fast approaching, and I'm sure many of you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  Engineering professor. I can’t express how grateful I was to be a student at the ... page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... Changes, Described by a Frosh." _______________________________ Good news

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  who don't believe me when I say I'm 19 and instead ask to see parent ... . It's so nice to be back; I didn't quite have a whole lot of time to ... - like today's screening - are free. I'm a fan of both Steve Carell and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  comes at a difficult college-choosing time. I hope that a look at MIT ... , a list of women graduates, a dedication to MIT "college girls", and a ... the day, MIT wasn't normally called by its abbreviation. Rather, it was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  home a happy 2011; I would’ve wished them in person – except I’m in India ... haven’t healed in months. It’s a humbling experience, seeing all of this ... the nurses’ skills, and I’m hoping it has a visible impact on the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  , you definitely don't need a 4.0 to be admitted, even to the very tip ... GPA isn't as important as research experience. Period. I have a 3.5, and ... grad school. A good score probably isn't going to help you significantly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  Dear Pass/No Record*, I’m breaking up with you. But don’t worry, it ... someone new. Having taken sophomore standing****, I’m technically not a ... . ****: Sophomore standing means, for all intents and purposes, that I’m a sophomore

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  can only see a short distance away). This isn't to say that flat ... some higher-dimensional-being that I'm merely a slice of. A fragment of ... [annotation note="don't you love it when the title of a piece is in the text? I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  So I'm back in the US, and it's weird. The first thing I noticed as I ... can hold moisture, I'd totally forgotten about that!" It was quite a ... until you bring the experience full circle. It wasn't until Monday morning

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  laughing, I’m relishing a new, intoxicating sense of freedom that I’ve never ... right as college started? Talk about a total nightmare. I wouldn’t be able ... , chaotic city, and that’s pretty amazing. A sprained knee doesn’t seem like

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  thing I suggest is getting a T-Pass. During the semester, I don't plan on buying one, but this summer it made for a great resource. With my T-Pass, I was able to get on the T, miss a stop, get off at the wrong stop as much

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  2017, right now, I’m feeling a little overwhelmed. Before me lies a ... sample sentences). Maybe overwhelmed isn’t even the word I’m looking for ... MIT? Oh yeah. GIFs. I'm new here and maybe I just haven't properly

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  ,” his fellow tour guide said. “He seems happy.” He didn’t mean it as a ... always has. I don’t need to fall in love with a science the way I have ... don’t think majors matter,” I responded, with the overconfidence of any

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  note="I'm old"]selling landline phones to the masses[/annotation]. I wasn’t ... are going with a different candidate.” I don’t remember what was said ... last forever. There’s a lesson in there somewhere, but I’m not a good

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  class i'm a lab assistant for. it was more time than i expected to spend ... , i found myself lying in bed, taking a half-nap, because i didn't have ... , i couldn't manage writing a sentence before getting distracted. i kept

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  !']If you weren't able to secure a ticket—worry not:[/annotation] there's a ... . P.S. I'm on Team Yellow! On the team, [annotation note='Earlier this fall, I suffered a brain injury and stepped back from my role for the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  before understands what I'm talking about. I don't have much time now, but ... needed for the webcast. What you can't see in the picture is what I'm ... ? Anybody at all? 6.270 is a LEGO robot programming class that takes place

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  . :) I haven't done a Q&A in a while. I'm sure that the new admittees ... there's a bunch of kids who didn't get your spot. For those who didn't ... hurts, but you'll be fine. I'm going through the job-seeking process

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  some of a few of my "firsts" here at MIT (There's many more, but this is just a few.) But instead of just throwing them at you, I’m going to show ... do a great job of describing life at MIT. They’re all creatively

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013