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• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  in fellowship deadlines and requirements, graduate school applications ... . What do you do afterwards? If you want to continue in academia, you try ... astronomy, and get a job in industry, business, finance, teaching, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  most definitely didn't have a gratuitously-added picture - in which I ... , not-so-involved career. I got my start in the second half of senior year ... 's say you're a student who's interested in MIT, and you want to continue

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  One year ago, in the mush of schoolless boredom known as Spring Break ... in the superficial sense, bearing no deeper significance than that I could take a plane to 77 Massachusetts Avenue in August and call myself a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  school. In my humble opinion, xkcd used to be a lot funnier than it ... of the facilities, but rather the character of the people who live in ... a UROP in their lab, or anything else. This is how Melis and I got an

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  the Art Scholars website:  “Established in 1998, the MIT Arts Scholars ... , because for 9th and 10th grade, we were in the music program of the arts ... writing this to share all the awesome ways that we have gotten involved in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  living in Berlin. MISTI is a really cool program that gives MIT students ... would want to do MISTI; in fact, I was set to do it last summer, but ... -running interest in the country and its culture, as well as because, of all the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  Dear Internet, No, I am not dead yet. I had a lot of great food in ... now back at MIT. I took a long nap in the library today. I can feel MIT's gaping maw ready to swallow me whole again. In other words... BRING IT ON

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  transformed into an impromptu dance floor. That Friday, we performed in the famous Teatro Amazonas in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. [caption id="attachment_88380" align="aligncenter" width="768"] How it went down in my head

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  in person. I don't remember exactly how I stumbled upon him, but I just ... "what." for the fifth time in a row. By that point, I had already ... am utterly in awe of everything he does. When I read Jonny Sun's name

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  , and it’s where you can put his invention to work in 6.163: Strobe ... at MIT’s Visual Arts Program until his death in 1976. White was ... met him last semester in 4.341…amazing). MIT might not strike you

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  pressure to work hard, or do students in the program encourage each other to ... virtue at MIT. In fact, I don't think I'd be exaggerating if I said hard ... granddaddy's yacht than we are by people who take 100 units in one term

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  that you can buy a bike at Cambridge Bicycle, which is two blocks up Mass ... character part in an Assassins' Guild game. The Guild is an MIT live ... little like a play, only not quite as scripted (and played in buildings

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Cómo Elegir Una Computadora Portátil Para la Universidad

  

  . Algunas tiendas, como Best Buy, incluso le devuelven dinero en forma de crédito de ... portátiles en mi carrito de compra en línea de la tienda Best Buy que tenían ... anteriormente. Algunas tiendas como Best Buy y Office Depot tienen varias ofertas

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  I'm in Washington, D.C. today for a work trip, so I write this blog ... the D.C. area. In retrospect, I should have just flown in last night and ... what it is about yet. In a Harvard class I took years ago, the lecturer

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  In a public high school with about 700 people per class, there was barely enough room to walk in the hallways, let alone room for much ... . These came in many forms. First, they were coding errors. It was the first

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  photos, plus Bryan SOAKING WET! One thing Bryan didn't do in his busy ... phone call at around 1 AM (which is only 10 PM in Northern California ... she wasn't entirely in favor of heading down to the Hatch Shell this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  participate in research?” tells us you have hardly looked at the website. Just ... and have interviewed 50+ applicants in the places work and life have ... , and New Haven, CT. I’m currently working on a joint MBA/PhD in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  Game in the middle of his lecture slides* and then inexplicably flings ... believe he was attempting to demonstrate something about tension in field ... drive looked pretty expensive.) *All seven people in attendance during

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  In my last entry, Jonathan Foley asked an interesting set of ... telling people my major in words instead of numbers, and I always say the ... degree in that major/sub-major in 2005. (Yes, I made it in Word. Yes, I do

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  your occupation or field that you work in? I am a computational ... partner Cory and I have been together for almost nine years now. We met in college (lived in the same dorm). He’s a mechanical engineer. No kids (yet

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025