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• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3 ... and the walk-ins area. (Normally there are people around, but I took ... to log into the phone system, and wait for calls to come in. While I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  double majoring in Nuclear Engineering (Course 22) and Biology (Course 7) along with a minor in music (Course 21M). As a testament to the diversity ... Engineering. He then sent out emails and began his work at the BNCT in mid

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  cause the student to shrivel up like a bacterium in Lysol. I remember ... realized just how meager my high school preparation had been. I had never ... people who had "merely" gotten 4's on the AP test. In high school, I'd been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  in the wall next to 224C. I do not know how or why it got there, but it ... at the time because I had to finish this problem, due in less than four ... in Mollie's wacky professor quotes entry... though I guess, by itself

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  comforting words, my friends and I made a video in December for EA applicants, and it definitely still applies now. I wrote an open letter about how I ... time last year (accompanied by some hasty drawings). I would link you to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  spend in college. if i knew about covid i’d have spent more time exploring boston in the time i was actually there. if i knew everything would be ... home ruminating about things i could’ve done differently in college, and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  about teaching at MIT. How would you describe yourself/what do you do? I ... my free time. I can’t thank Marjorie enough for how kindly she guided ... to happiness and (dare I even hope) success someday in doing something

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  So it's hard to imagine I just participated in my FIFTH CPW but yea ... meet everyone who got in and hear about their stories about how they ... finally, a sorry to those of you who thought I would be taller or more buff

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  remember how insane MIT actually is. In a lot of ways, though, it ... on 006. But I don't need to. I'm satisfied with how much I'm learning ... class whose lectures and recitations I regularly attend, at this point in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  're doing. So far, I've been gaining a wide overview of how BNSF runs their trains and the sorts of performance aspects one would be concerned with in ... boss says "he's here this month while MIT is in hibernation"), but I don

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  't really like, and didn't end up pursuing in the long run. I worked hard to ... , I immediately shed all the things that I had done in high school that ... when I first heard That sweet sound of humility? It came to my ears in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  , and planned that it would take about a third of the hours it did, so I ... shops and how I exist within them. I was at the moto fest with a white guy who I’d taught how to weld, a nice student, good at taking criticism

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  in Cambridge for summer 2023. I would be working on a more technical ... that I supervised about MIT in the Marvel Multiverse. Jade just published ... even wrote about a pair of Spider-Man Shoes I had painted in high school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  should I go in the quirky direction? unclear but you would not believe ... need to get in? Because I only got a 1590.” How do you plan on ... has a good penguin department and idk maybe I’ll major in that not

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  , I figured the holiday season would be as good a time as any to ... associate at the MIT Media Laboratory in Cambridge. "I've been known to hit ... For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  you that you feel get you closer to your goal in life? So I guess what I am asking is, specifically, how has MIT helped you come closer to ... expressed some interest in it when I was about ten, and after that my family

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  going anywhere at all. I wanted to go to college, but how would I possibly represent everything about who I am as a person in 250 words? I couldn’t, so I ... When I was once a high school senior drowning in college applications

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  In eighth grade, I was Tessie in my school's production of Little ... , though, and there are very few people I'm willing to sing in front of. Late in the evening, I walk back to French House along the back of the dorm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  how to talk to people... or into microphones..."), or would they see ... for built-in excuses for not knowing what's going on!) I was born in Jamaica, but I moved to the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area in Florida at age

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  -Set for the day is: how much transparent concrete would I need to safely ... ) but it still reminded me about how much innovation there is in an ... One of the things I truly love about MIT is that you never know when

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010