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• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  (although in my hometown bedroom community of NYC, people were buying pallets ... house to buy in my new town, go on a big adventurous trip to Asia, and ... that we are all experiencing feel strikingly familiar. Airlines were in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  15 years of experience in the financial aid and student financing ... - religious school instructor. There is never a quiet moment in his life, and ... start it with this line: “I was born in a place that doesn’t exist anymore

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  … (in)tense. I haven’t experienced that much uncertainty in my life ... then say whether they did or did not get in. Trust me, there’s no pattern in those posts nor any clues as to whether you will get accepted

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  . The truth is, like perhaps many of the 1,116 freshmen in the class of ... struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure, the psets are already rolling in, the reading is piling up, and the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  since I arrived in Boston. I have been up to my ears in work, dance ... summer! This summer, I am doing research in synthetic biology as a member ... community and collaboration. In 2012, iGEM spun out of MIT and became an

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  I've worked in corporate America for about 5 "semesters" now (they don ... . During my CPW in April 2003 (wow), I took some photos of all the madness ... this so I sent him another email in November 2003 asking if I could

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  're interested in film-making, you might take a class in it. Later you might hear ... hanging out at LSC, you might hear about an upcoming play… In short ... hear about and have the chance to particupate in. And that's how I

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  'Oreal’s website, you’ll see the emphasis on science in the cosmetics industry, and ... Bryant Park have in common? Besides all being located in New York City ... College Women competition. In three action-packed days, we met over 160

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  , regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of the past few years ... .] Should I send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you send in is the midyear grade report. You can download one off of the MyMIT website

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  spectacularly. Like last night, we lost 1-0 in double overtime on the road and ... mention them in an entry(Adelaide '09 and Meara '09). Hell, people even get ... , being a veteran FIRSTer up in Canada, was thrilled about this. Her

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  -time photography, and holds the distinction as one of the greatest think tanks in the ... slipping into a lab coat. In high school I was fortunate enough to spend two summers working in the labs of Massachusetts General Hospital

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  recently graduated and is now working in the Cambridge area. We decided to ... things to see. There's a lot to see in Boston; we only got to two of these ... .S.S. Constitution in Boston Harbor The Constitution, a.k.a. Old Ironsides, is a three

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  in my own MIT application. I remember the day I brought it to the post ... -- when my acceptance packet arrived in the mail. I remember driving ... site that Ben Jones created, where we could all check in and get to know

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  as the second-greatest moment in television history. If memory serves ... themselves to a differential equations textbook, buy their first starbucks ... hour, and since then I've never actually failed a test in an MIT class

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  in Madison with other recruits and a company representative. In other impressions, the company had a slide instead of stairs in one of the buildings, and D&D sword and throne room in another building. I got to stay in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  and comfort, even if you're lowkey still in your TikTok fake vine phase ... food, but buy a $5 coffee or smoothie every day anyways. it's probably ... ideals, and are likely in the [annotation note="undergraduate association

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  up buying the spicy version because I prefer having a bit of a kick in ... the Trader Joe's lovers out there, you are in for some good news! The ... three weeks or so.  We'd go late in the evenings when the crowd wasn

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  split us all up - funny things are mostly only funny when they're said in ... emails in my inbox that were sent to this mailing list and pick out some of ... in which these quotes were said (and I am the genesis of at least a few

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called ... became more involved in promoting mental health and general health on ... in for my HASS concentration! I will concentrate in writing and reading

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever ... incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this ... . In other news, like I mentioned in my last post, the theme for East

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014