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• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  will things be like in seven semesters, or even at the end of this ... I grew up in Nashua, New Hampshire, an unassuming city with lovely people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  . Took seven AP exams junior year, earning top scores in biology ... venture, which he helped direct. Zinser likes to work in the wood shop, lift ... weights. A working-class kid raised just off Foster Road in Southeast

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  I'm interviewing at five of the top seven programs in biology -- and ... morning at 6:45 AM. (My postdoc at the lab told me I don't have to come in on Tuesday until after I've taken a nap. This may sound nice, but is in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  began working in MIT Admissions. It will also mark my last. At least, for ... classes in the Comparative Media Studies program. They were really hard. I was put in a room with a small number of very smart grad students and a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  , which was a bad thing for kids, since lead ions in aqueous solution taste sweet, but also promote brain damage. In fact, the word "plumbing" comes ... , well, do much better than you at dancing. It's great! I know in high

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  pretty bad..."]any tabs[/annotation] in the last 3 years, since I got my ... , gradescope, canvas, "<enter any city I have lived in the last 3 years ... "How to not be afraid of everything" by Jane Wong. I read this book in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  my dorm in a rented Penske truck. We piled all of my boxes and bags ... 'll be given a spot in the dorms"]never see again.[/annotation] I've mostly ... leave anything in [annotation note="my dorm"]MacGregor House

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  thought I'd take a look back at MIT athletes who have participated in the ... likely to be in the Science Olympiad or the International Math Olympiad ... representing 8 different countries have competed in 27 Olympic Games in 9

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  : Technology Review. Actually, what you buy on newsstands is a slimmed ... different high-tech and economic development projects in Buenos Aires, including the MIT $50K Global Startup Workshop actor in a one-woman all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  This is entry #2 in my series "entries that need to be written because some of the new categories don't have enough stuff in them". Today ... are only graded in a pass/fail fashion -- if you get an A, B, or C in a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  schedule."]at 8:05 PM[/annotation] in Kresge Auditorium, the lights will dim over a crowded audience. Then, moments later, for the first time in three ... [/annotation] in the only way they know how: a group song. The last time FWACC

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  , and to the decades of MIT students he taught in Mechanical Engineering ... authority solely by living the same values he hoped to see in the world ... , quick to laugh, impossible to anger, and radically human-centered in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  too :-) It's three in the morning and MIT's campus is, for once ... a dull, dirt-free sheen. In front of you is the Infinite Corridor: by ...  clack-clack-clack-clack coming from in front of the elevators. Curious, you peer into the antechamber

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  I've had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a townhouse in the suburbs of northern Virginia. There were five of us in total

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  three pieces of advice. 1. Relax. 2. Submit your application well in ... essay has to be something to do with engineering or could I send in a project I have worked on in my graphic design classes, such as a poster

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile ... buy socks. I should eat breakfast. I put away the clean dishes from the ... something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  International Olympiad in Informatics. The International Olympiad in Informatics ... students. Like its counterparts in math (IMO), physics (IPhO), chemistry (ICh ... in a kind of academic olympics. At IOI 2015, 322 students from 83

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  . But it was breathtaking, especially in the early morning with mystical ... -Peruvian fusion. Apparently the eighth best restaurant in the world?? Exhibit B ... app prototypes in the span of just a few weeks. Their companies ranged

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  where the whole sophomore class dresses up in everything from onesies to ... design. Every year, Ring Comm, the group of students in charge of ... details of the 2019 ring include the euro symbol in the background behind

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  Hard to believe July is nearly gone eh? Yup in just a few short ... breakfast? Go for it! Don't want to go to class? You won't get in trouble ... said you love is still a healthy one. Yes in the course of one year at

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009