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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  country and the world. They all come to MIT, stay in Simmons hall, and get paired with a mentor in the Boston area to do an original scientific ... your paperwork. Going to these offices in the late afternoon? Tough luck

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  certainly an unusual place. Case in point: no one really asks how your day is ... Fenway in the massive crowds of people: And managed to snag some Red Sox ... , and Julianna was in the lead, we got lost. Lawrence, however, came to

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: Eyes SHut - nocturne in c minor - Ólafur Arnalds ... , mindful, intentional. Last Monday for Veterans Day, I slept in, went to get acupuncture for sudden pain I was having in my foot, did some

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  ...all in hopes that they'll apply to our school. We wait in anticipation to ... love so much will say "yes" in return. And that brings us to today. Many ... waiting in anticipation to hear responses from the college(s) you applied to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  do get to see MIT, at 7 am, in its glory of quiet energy, just waiting ... earlier this week is how obsessed the US is with capitalizing things. In ... and head over to play. It is lots of fun. Or maybe I can talk about how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  ? Whenever you get a chance, try to read as many of those as possible. You ... of software to help MIT life in some way. Without much else to do, I ... at MIT last fall, I originally told everyone that I wanted to major in

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  how to manage your time efficiently. Beat up anyone who gets in your way ... , listening to lectures, and training in the afternoon. (It's also the reason ... crawling and bruised, limbs hanging off in stray directions, back to my dorm

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  a mini mill in your dorm at MIT? And do you get time to work on your ... ordinary people who were either lucky enough to get in. Oh wait... to which ... Mechanical Engineering and only open to students in that major (likewise with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  used to see him when I made solitary adventures downtown on Fridays in ... around the city so I go get a smoothie. These women in sundresses order ... ’s really excited to go to Metro State (a local community college) in the fall

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  surprise projects for when I get back to school, and watching lots of How I ... when I get back to campus it'll be back to IHTFP, but in some weird ... been hiking and exercising a lot, and trying my best not to get burned by

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  looking all over for you, kid!" booms Satan. "Let's get you back to hell ... uncertain coworker. By the time I grab my sandwich and get to the door, both ... it back to campus just in time to hear Sal Khan tell his story to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  get to overshare my life on the internet :D.  This year feels like a year of calibration for me in many ways, beyond just adjusting to a ... on average), thanks to in person 9am classes/meetings. I eat a decent

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  things I want to and need to get done than one in a day -- when there are ... of bacon of comparable value to your kidneys in the living room with a ... one thing in a day, like get groceries, I can almost guarantee that I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  in all your pictures, and to know what a Roth IRA is and how to ... 's where they get you. (Tricked me again, life!) According to my mom, you ... would appear overnight, know how not to constantly be too snarky for my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  in renewable energy. Wants to: Get a good-paying job so he can afford ... venture, which he helped direct. Zinser likes to work in the wood shop, lift ... particularly one who will be the first in his family to attend college full time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  experiments, we're trying to shed some light on how infants become social. In ... company back home in Houston to get experience, get paid, and get by without ... the summer to sit down and write them out. Two semesters in, and the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  remember, in my last post I asked for people to provide me with MIT ... specifically how I met or befriended the friend (in many other cases, I either ... . In APO, the tradition is that Bigs are supposed to let their Littles

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  't get to walk in 2021 for my SB, I did get to walk in 2023 for my SM ... names is to just get married in MA."]more name change paperwork ... spent my time anxiously waiting to get vaccinated for COVID, doomscrolling

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  who have already packed. They get to do this: I am not one of those ... MIT and commuting to Rhode Island to work in Hasbro's modeling department I wasn't expecting to get really upset about people leaving but it

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  Museum of Fine Arts (MIT students get in free! Can't beat culture for free ... cause the student to shrivel up like a bacterium in Lysol. I remember ... experiment in lab, I chose the experiment every time. I didn't go to night

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006