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• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The famous Pioneer Zephyr trains of the 1940's were named because a railway president wanted his trains to be considered the ... literally look up the last word in the dictionary, but decided that "zymurgy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  Robert Langer, an MIT Chemical Engineering professor, is one of the best-known biomedical engineers in the world. He holds 500 issued and pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18 ... smaller classes in which you review the lectures and ask questions about ... TA you like the best and go back to sleep.) So I finished my first

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  , headed off with the questions What is the student mentality with regard to work? Is the program composed of self-starters, with very little peer pressure to work hard, or do students in the program encourage each other to

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

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  smart and when I called them from the airport as I was leaving in September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the ... , or Waitlisted for the Class of 2013 and I know you all are waiting for

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Kelly Clarkson was the most-played artist on American ... celebrate, I was going to do an entry about the MIT marching band's slush ... until I get a chance to get all the pictures together, here's a poem I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  HI EVERYONE~ It’s the FIRST DAY OF CLASSES and I haven’t blagged ... . Sometimes it turns out ok, I think. I’ve often had too much reverence for The ... a different country every month. It was pretty crazy. For the month

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  The following is a guest post by Jorge T. '18.   The Power of Intuition   The deadline to accept college admissions offers is only a week ahead, so I thought I would share some of the things I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  to answer the many questions that have been showing up in my blog ... ------------------------------------- Ron wrote: "hey i miss the october test for the SAT because of the ... for SAT. so i couldn't complete my test on time that had set up by the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  So, about a month ago, I submitted my last exam for the year in Johnson Athletic Center which marked the end of a very, very, very long first year at MIT. So, like the first and second two times, I’m going to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  disclaimer in case the title doesn't show this, I am writing this ... , and that even after going through the undergrad application cycle ... school” anymore — I want to try for a master's. I’d been playing with the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  with cowboy hats:   I step outside and breathe in the toasty ... get to the parking garage, and my rental car agent greets me with a "Howdy, how can I help?" I meekly smile at the word usage, and answer his

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  A couple weeks back, Winnie reminded me that the [annotation note ... remembering holidays by the food…oops"]Dragon Boat Festival existed ... food — but even so, the only words I definitely know are “shrimp

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  everything, here's some quick snippets of some of the things that have happened in the past [latex]n[/latex] months. When the 2021s in ... celebrate the end of our time at MIT. We gallivanted around the West Coast for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  My November is a looming list of tasks that must be accomplished. The sun is setting sooner and sooner. It's getting really cold, with the exception of the past couple of days. I've been through this seasonal dip

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  who knew exactly what they want to do with life. I was terrified of the unknown. And not getting into the “right” college meant that the future was suddenly the unknown. So if I had a time machine, I’d tell myself that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  . No, this is a fancier event. The handmade cups here cost $68. And I am ... in the eyes of the vendors and I become invisible. They talk to the ... purchases to the cashier and slide my card and pay for my things, but then the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  up for the Fall Career Fair and are interviewing with companies, classes are settling into a rhythm, the pumpkin takeover is underway, and I ... sweater and got my photo taken for the yearbook. For my senior quote, I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  the department  It’s been exactly one month since commencement, and I don’t think “being an alum” will hit me until it’s the first week of ... how excited we were to graduate despite the rain (admittedly, this was

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  've learned a number of things: At MIT, the week of my birthday has always been ... parties I've typically blogged about in the middle of October? And the exams ... because that's just how the cookie crumbled. That realization helped me beat

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012