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• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  in a tea shop with a friend. the low barrier of entry to try new things in college (missed)   Let’s say I want to learn how to do Pogo ... ], but that can be hard to find at first in a new city. It’s still worth it

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  ’s why I think you should apply. 1. Applying to MIT is how you get into MIT. How else would you? 2. Worst case scenario—you don’t get in. Odds ... . After all, MIT is one of those schools that you strategize to get into

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  year? Hm. Academically, it was rough, for sure. I'll get more into it in ... 've ever been, and I'm sure they'll only get harder. :( But I got to spend ... this fall. I was lucky enough to get an offer from a company called

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  , investing in new technologies and ideas), I am so proud to wear my brass rat ... 'm doing lately, and how MIT has continued to shape me post-graduation. Since ... , going to a formal, and then maybe some stuff about playing in the snow. I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  wedding ring on his desk, trying to see for how long he can get it to spin. He has been trying in vain to beat his record of 41 seconds. Clearly ... light shows, a visit to the doctor, a turtle race, and ring spinning. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  good in SolidWorks, how's it going to look in real life? The first thing ... already had. This last week, however, I learned something new. I learned how ... ? Later in the semester we'll be using these to create aluminum molds to

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  catch changes in the populations behavior. And I wanted to see how easy a ... desires. In middle school, I was quiet, and I would just observe how people ... purposefully how to on my own. I was always very reflective and sought out people

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  the crowding in undergraduate dorms, and to increase the undergraduate population to the glorious size it once was (sometime back in the 90's). Their ... referred to as "W1") into a "New" magical dorm (NW35 or the "New" Ashdown

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  leg room; plus, I'll get to sleep in a little later than people on the ... The guy in the row next to mine just asked the lady behind him if he ... little too long waiting at the station JUST before I had to get off. (Of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  Release Form. Notes to the wise: if you're flying in, book your plane ... in dozens of locales, including New York City, Dallas, Los Angeles, San ... in to introduce themselves. Since only admitted students can enter

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  second major. Also, if you stay a 5th year to get your M.Eng. degree in ... to join the team, go ahead! "In any case, if you get the feeling that ... in living in a frat, and a big part of his going to CPW is to get to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  recently graduated and is now working in the Cambridge area. We decided to ... things to see. There's a lot to see in Boston; we only got to two of these ... the 1790s in Boston’s North End, and to this day is still an active

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  it getting chaotic? How do I make sure that there is variety to the ... about to get incredibly busy again (and after three months of relative ... reading my posts? How were they responding to it? Was the post successful

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  moved in, the new residents decided to dub themselves English House and ... how many times you think you are going to visit MIT. In general, the ... '08 drew attention to the fact that it was, in fact, moving, smelling

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  understand the intricacies of our code, other teams in order to figure out how ... barista, en route to my desk. 9:20am, Nice Window Desk (no cubicles in ... system (error handling) didn’t know how to fight, and it was up to you to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  class). It's so easy to get caught up in all the stat posts going up on ... has a question: Jess, I had a question, how do you get placed in your dorm? Do you just get put in randomly? Because I would really like to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  ’t feel rested at all, and I’m not ready to be trapped in the [annotation ... experiences. My pod mates are fun people to work with and just great in general ... of random things. Then I realize I have work and get back to it. It

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  .org better. New bloggers! In addition to our new website, I also want to ... welcomed people to the "new" MITAdmissions.org, the one you would have seen ... have we. Let me explain how. How (and why) we redesigned In 2016, we met

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  need some time to get accustomed to a new atmosphere, but over time, I ... being in such a large atmosphere. Worries about how these classes could ... intimidating as well. Not in the number of people. But because of how I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  said and done, i feel better. but i don’t know how to do it in ... they don’t want to? it takes a certain amount of trust in someone to ... that i’m open to listening. how presumptuous of me to think that i mean

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022