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• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  getting rather long. My research experience will have to be represented in ... Where to begin? Well, in order to understand me, what drives me ... that made all the difference in the world to me, or none at all

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  wasn't getting out of campus enough. I knew I wanted to start a company ... I saved to travel and pursue my goal of getting myself out there ... plane for a Phi Kappa Sigma conference and spent a week getting to know my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  not know how to use a pipette: Cambridge teaches passion. It assumes ... equiped to look pretty in the lab. For example, I can pour a gel, then set ... up to that point are just differences in order. *** One thing I notice

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  travel somewhere in the physical world to obtain information. Information!  Fortunately, you live in more civilized times. Nowadays, when you want to know ... to clarify it. If there was a nicer way to get a certain conclusion

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  interested in INSPIRE, how should they proceed? A: To start, all you really ... In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually ... are invited to MIT’s campus in April 2016 to meet expert judges and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  I spent the morning in a café, working. I planned to get things done ... can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.” from The Journals of Sylvia Plath I am in New

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  raising live chickens in my yard. I pulled out my camera to get a shot of ... least four dozen people in our mob, ATS decided to scout out the biggest ... with enough pepper to heat a small house.) You get the general idea. I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  think in new and creative ways to optimize problems that relate not only ... 9 months to do all of the following: get through the list of 101 ... for STS (it's been sitting in my backpack for weeks now) get into

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  .  Here's the main lessons I took away from his talk: How to know when to ... established companies and other startups. Far better is to think of a new idea ... in 3 months? The answer is to shorten your cycle time by aiming for

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  Boston to New York, which means we had to get on the earliest possible bus ... only is FAP one week of pure awesome (I mean, come on, you get to hang out with The Angela Monster), but you also just might get the chance to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  trying to get through it. But now that you're going to college you're going ... welcoming place to work out what I was comfortable with and how I wanted to ... not be the most effective allies. It can be tough to feel comfortable in

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  dope! Keep in mind that it tends to get a bit crowded on weekends (for ... from MIT, so if you're looking for somewhere new to walk/run or bike, it ... 's for some ice cream. As we tried to figure out how to navigate home from

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  homesick and reveling in new opportunities. But right now I’ve got to drag ... way to the Kendall T-station. Let me give you an idea of exactly how ... used to say, “Walk in like you own the place.” Marching through the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  , "Is there a deadline for deferred applicants to send in supplemental material?" I'd say it's best to try to get things in by the beginning of ... , "What is the deadline for SAT scores to be sent in?" Please designate your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  ’re going to get in (relevant fun fact: MIT doesn’t do legacy admissions ... about EA decisions being released next week. And I wanted to check in ... to show you why MIT is not the goal. From The New York Times, &ldquo

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  close to the chapel (currently under construction). In fact, Maseeh is ... , but in a few weeks, once my schedule lightens up, I'll eventually get ... days), I'm back in my room with absolutely nothing to do. I use the term

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  she talks about her internship in China and how “it's never too late to ... yourselves. There is so much to do here, so much to get involved in, and so ... to tell us how you handled a situation in which things did not go

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  enabling new research in every discipline and new solutions to daunting ... time to educate a new generation of technologists in the public interest ... . He wrote: This new College is our strategic response to a global

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  (and free food), but I don’t try to get involved with them at any deeper ... nobody in 18.032. Due to a mandatory recitation for another class, I would ... about twenty people. The kids in the classroom seemed to care much more

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to work with actual research, and can get ... really hard not to show how angry I was at 6.009 and myself. A week after I ... need to have in order to graduate."]7.014[/annotation] to my schedule. I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023