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• 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

  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 / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  hallways. In an effort to spice up the recurring blandness of Maseeh’s white ... room at absolutely no cost. According to the MIT List center’s website ... ! (hopefully).   If you win the lottery, you get to go back to the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 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 / 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

  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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  more piano songs - in fact, I think I've forgotten how to play some of ... only problem is that they’re all in Japanese and take me eons to read ... (although I did get around to reading some other books). And since I've been

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  semester, but you can start to poke around in the 6.811 course website to ... iPhone. in our first iteration, we tried to bust open a few ... . it's a very different way to think of product design or just design in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  . Brian came to MIT from California as an undergrad.  He majored in Mechanical Engineering but decided to do some research in the Math department ... .  He helped to figure out a longstanding mystery in fluid mechanics about

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  faults and he knows how I work. I think it would help me more to get his ... ant06 wrote, "is it okay to get a recommendation from a teacher who ... care if recommendations come from the subject you wish to major in or not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  get you in. "Another issue is related to interviewing in India.Here in ... since childhood I have been dreaming to go to MIT ..in fact go only to MIT ... the Computer Club.Actually,what I want to know in a very straightforward

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005