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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  September and I’m not at MIT registering for classes and trying to squeeze in ... how excited we were to graduate despite the rain (admittedly, this was ... , I love to tell the story of how I never imagined coming to MIT

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

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  'll be getting married in September -- our wedding website is here, for ... is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... difference is that now I'm getting paid significantly more to do it. (Ugh, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  , you get a lot of choice in what you want it to be. Former blogger Mollie ... . But i have decided that now my only aim is to get in MIT so i need your ... school to get admission in 1 of the best college like MIT. Do you think

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  up to get help, with no entrance tests or requirements whatsoever. In ... universities in the world. Are you worried that you have no qualifications to ... Professor Eileen Scanlon from The Open University, told us how in another

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  to have attended Disrupt and to have made new friendships in the startup community from cities all over the US. Getting to Disrupt was quite ... placed in the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon the weekend before. Tickets to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  the two? Would you ever toss a coin to decide, in this case?" I get ... because of your scientific passion and not just to get into college. Nick ... really need them and don't have them, your counselor can expect to get a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  all weekend and getting lost in the tunnels trying to get to a far ... to grieve. In the grand scheme of COVID-19 impacts, missing a year of ... requirements to mostly [annotation note="these were course 6 classes at the time"]in

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  here so it looks like we get to skip the Intl admissions part of the ... " He's talking about how, for example, in Eric Lander's Bio class (human ... learning how to actively learn, pursue topics, and be inspired by the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  .com, dictionary.com, thesaurus.com, or some crossword solver website. Every once in ... would allow me to rearrange the rows in a way that would give more ... letter in each word of the meta. Someone in the audience shouted out, "how

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  actually get two diplomas to show off at graduation (and to hang ... the truly worthy will be able to dance at graduation with a diploma in ... ). In a nutshell, everybody at MIT has to either take or pass out of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

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

  

  developed the technology to control how they explode--maybe you could major in ... , and he was able to get a really great vantage point to take photos the ... she wasn't entirely in favor of heading down to the Hatch Shell this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Getting Back to Normal ...with some help from Macklemore

  

  It has been a rough couple of weeks in Boston and at MIT.  Wednesday's memorial service for Officer Collier has helped us to heal.  And tonight, we'll take another step in getting back to normal. Tonight is the annual MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  in a book or a travel guide or something if I don't get around to ... that somebody getting a bloody nose in USA-Italy just meant it was eve ... system and advancement of teams to the round of 16... how France are almost

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  those who are morally opposed to clicking on hyperlinks in my blog, here ... -meta-puzzle allows you to run around wildly on campus in search of the hidden item ... flaunted in our admiring, frustrated faces. Examples included (1) an Apples-to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  know, you get temped in a dorm, but if you don't like it, you can opt to ... would be stuck in it, especially since I didn't get to go to my CPW and ... seriously. I cannot stress this enough. Try to pick a place that fits you in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  Previous me wrote in a blogpost that I "did not want to write about ... obliged to finish. That was a great tactic back in middle school, when I had ... other one about Vikings that I had to read because I was quarantined in an

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  on campus as of late concerning how to best achieve a safe, caring ... midterms was not much better and I began to get really concerned. My fiery ... something I learned to do well in high school. I talked to TAs and LAs, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  you get to know  Now I’m in a big city. I don’t go out into Boston as ... learn, and there are many cool MechE classes I won't be able to fit in to ... , just from talking to people, but I know so little about the programs in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  take a very long time to respond to texts, which in the grand scheme of ... else being sad causes you to also become sad. in some sense empathic ... , regardless of how awful it may be of course the key word in the previous

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  until I can get home and watch the show in its full glory. Yeah, I really ... headed on over to the Project Runway website to check out Ms. Eng's bio ... you go if you want to spend six years making toys and get a PHD out of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005