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• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  ’t appreciate how much effort we had been putting in until we didn’t have to ... pages of lecture notes to get through, the last thing we want to concern ... I didn’t know how to feel about it. I think I never truly realized

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  time, I didn’t really know what it meant to have a job in robotics. I ... most familiar with or have a Bachelors in, does not necessarily have to ...  is the study of applied physics mechanics — “how to build things that won

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  season conference title, but to beat every single team in our conference ... win against Emerson, we are the first team to ever go 11-0 in our ... team so much. I can’t wait to see what the post-season has in store for

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  -set I turned in one Ed Sheeran song before the deadline. Needless to say ... around in small circles, muttering to myself, twirling my fingers in the ... time in MIT I had completed an exam with several minutes to spare. This

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  Rainforest over spring break. We got to perform in a bright pink opera house in ... never quite know what you’re getting into with Fred. (In case you were ... person who led the effort for him to come to MIT! The residency ended in a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  community. With privacy becoming increasingly more consequential in our day-to-day lives, I was interested in exploring how I could use my background in ... first class back in February, the Georgetown Law students flew up to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  , IL listening to: the jazz that they’re playing in the station lobby ... located in what used to be the Chicago Public Library. I was a little ... in the Great Hall, waiting for my train to take me away to California

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  first exam. She gets that familiar thrill like she did in high school, the ... fingers that shakes a bit when she thinks about how much she struggled to ... answers excitedly on their way back to Baker House (i didn’t get any of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  horizon for who can say how long, moving away the closer you get to it. In ... , but we’ll get the closest approximation that we can in these times. I ... around other people and ignoring them.  In high school we’d go to college

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  The Tech hosted its annual retreat in Maine. Maine seems to have a lot ... still Internet though. We trickled in to Peru over the course of several ... who avoided going on the hike decided to simply walk around in the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  up in 2003 and is home to about 700 scientists. Ever seen those ... Screening labs that are located in the Cambridge facility. It's hard to ... Novartis expects to have about 14 drugs in testing per year. Walking into

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  's how it works. Every year our dorm pays for us to go on a really nice ... stood in the middle. *boom boom boom* Ahhhhh sh**, get your towels ready ... , and do my duty to the Lonely Island. Everybody in the place hit the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  expensive”. Surprising, since you can get them for $5 in the states. I’d said ... when you say, “capture”. So that’s how Gedion was able to take the photos ... they want to, when in reality they have lots and lots of things: running

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  Under 30 Lists in 2016 More than Two Dozen from MIT Named to Forbes 30 ... healthcare, followed by manufacturing and energy. It's cool to see winners in ... 's exciting to think about who will do interesting things in 2017 and end up on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  to the requirements specified." Now I mentioned before how GEL ... 've learned over and over in the GEL program. It's our instinct to push the ... colleagues for showing the world how MIT works." Her May 2nd email to the MIT

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  . Learn to cook a new dish. (Like those spam recipes you get in the advertisements on your spam folder page in Gmail.) 5. Write thank-you letters to ... 't matter whether or not they directly helped you get in; these people helped

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my ... this, I’ll move back to the US for graduate school in astronomy at ... ’ll be using infrared data to learn how the Milky Way formed. But before I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  st... First: thank you. It's been a real pleasure getting to know you. We've spent the last year thinking about you, getting to know you ... , it's more than a job. It's hard not to get attached. This college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  world". The grandma-friendly way to explain this is in terms of the ... months after graduating, to keep getting it wrong when I went to put my ... the physical examples, easy to describe in a short vignette. The true

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  (supposedly) the world's third largest shark fin in its lobby. Thanks to Matt Mc ... terrible happens to you, you might be too afraid to ever go back in again," and so despite the 8-inch purple gash in her leg, Ruth was determined to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005