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• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  summer, I had no idea where I wanted to apply. There was a vague desire to ... graduate school a.) is best taken early on in your college years when you ... application. There is not enough of a difference between personal statements and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  to you until he or she’s not there. I want to take a little ... bulldozed to the ground last year. I also owe a big thank-you to Anne, who ... . Traffic in India is bumper-to-bumper in a very real sense. Take a big road

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  blue and green. By now I think there should be a category called "e ... , MIT now gets Comedy Central! Do you know what that means? I can watch ... possibly be a coincidence, but Comedy Central is channel 52 on both MIT Cable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  moment, like a lot of the shit Trump is constantly trying to pull, whether ... , and is probably the only one that I will ever take. It's a [annotation ... 'm graduating early and SuperUROP is a full year program, I jebaited myself and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  if forever is something you can even conceptualize.   ...   ... international travel is complicated with the pandemic, and so you feel like a ... to remind you that things would be okay. there's a small niche of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  write this, there are a whole bunch of really cool things going on at MIT ... Undergraduate Economics Association (UEA) is hosting a lecture by Frederic Mishkin ... Condry, an MIT Professor in Japanese Cultural Studies, is giving a talk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  list of things to do is by no means expansive and there are probably a ... . There is a lot I left out as a lot of the things I did this summer I will ... thing I suggest is getting a T-Pass. During the semester, I don't plan on

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  singing, to continue making art: there are workshops that you can take which ... and wind ensembles and symphonies where you can learn to perform ... Arts Center runs a lottery where MIT students can pick a piece of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  :18 PM[/caption] In case you couldn't tell, there's a lot of snow at MIT ... uneasy for the past few weeks. Not bad, just weird. I've prepared for you a ... , where anyone can directly text the current DJ. Cats shouldn't binky, but

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  had to study my name for a while, since there's no way I can re ... away. “Cows ran away” is a common American idiom for “We didn't buy ... thread: How much do I like MIT? The best answer I can think of is, more

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  I spent this past IAP at home in Central Pennsylvania. This is where ... weekends when I can. PA is colder than Boston, or it feels that way. In the ... for the past four months. Winter in PA is grey trees against a warm

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  and there are no other drinks, so you buy a cookie even though you ... it took a year you’ve now reached a point where you like (or at least ... your room. you read through a text conversation where one of your math

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  MIT is a good match for you? We will of course talk about admissions ... or emails, it would be great if you could RSVP so that we can get a ... in the MIT undergraduate student body? And, which foreign country is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  enough. Early success is a terrible teacher. You’re essentially being ... where you must prepare, you can’t do it. You don’t know how. Even the most ... hanging on my wall: I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  the lack of sound judgment, I urge you to see how long you can live on a Freegan diet (yep, “Freegan” is a real word. I wish I had invented it). You ... horizon. Dim Sum! If you're ever mind-numbingly bored enough to pop open a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  spreadsheet. It is my equivalent of decorating a bullet journal or buying fancy ... wall in 3D, you can also see it represented as a floor plan, exactly how ... ="the last day students can add a class to their schedule without a fee

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  especially…..dun dun dun….college apps. I feel you, it can be a stressful time ... ) how difficult is it once you're there? any general advice would also be ... abroad or take internships in a foreign country. I might be getting an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  , I think, is what you really want in an undergrad school -- a place ... People sometimes say that it doesn't matter where you go for ... cheerleader, I a member of a group that is shockingly underrepresented in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  , because I am a short human being, lunch can also be dinner if I buy ... of course, weeks are a Social Construct, and really every day is just ... cook a big batch of food Friday night so that I can eat it all weekend

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  the kinds of lessons that you can’t simply learn in a classroom. ... If you’ve ever seen Glee, you know that Breadsticks is the token ... where advising groups often meet for dinner; it’s where we’ve had a few

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012