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• Blog / Advice

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

  

  lab and we happen to both be leaving at MIT at the same time--she got a ... ? It's the thing you do if you major in life sciences and want to get a ... why attempt the career fair rat race? Apply to grad school and remain a

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

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  option. You figure that the world is over and that you're going to fail out ... up until 3 or 4am on a regular basis; you check, and sure enough, the ... complex analysis and goodness-knows-what-else to do that. So, you don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  or behind a door that is supposed to be locked does. however the ... . Exit 114. =) Now, on to the hack: After like an hour and a half of ... from rcg, who is a pretty cool guy and an awesome sport about the fact

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  education, there remains the anxiety over how to pay for it. I know that for ... 40-to-1 return on investment." In the same way that President ... decisions, and I wanted to take a moment to offer a few thoughts, and to thank

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  Dog, this meant that a lot of Bad Forces were exerted on the wing--and ... time it was the other aileron that failed. We called it a wrap and spent ... :30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  the interview, speak in a manner that is easy to understand, and bring ... the same-old "words of comfort" that adcoms offer to students," and ... "wet and not-so-hot." It's quite an experience to be in a place where the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  to the word limit for the essays, a lot of space is left over in the ... our passion and interest in a field (ie. research)? Is it fine if the ... A real entry is coming soon! I promise! In the meantime, more

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  -building strategies in the various media and genres in order to develop a critical and ... imagining bit is a lot more fun than the...actual taking of them, but I love ... software development: how to write software that is safe from bugs, easy to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  road that is somehow both Route 1 and Route 9 at the same time? I think ... the shots, not the traveler. :-) I got to see a lot of the city that ... better and this was a great way to begin doing so. So that was Monday

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  in the same boat with whom to share thoughts and feelings, and a ... donation site, Kintera, has a feature called 3-and-Me: the basic idea is that ... . The program is open to all children ages 6-13 in the Boston area. I will

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  Penthouse. Unable to see through the trees that lined the streets and ordered ... exciting is that??! They TALKED to us. And we didn't get arrested! Or shot by ... soon joined by others, who seemed to have had the same bright idea. We

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  icing on the cake, the cake is a lie, to take the cake, and cakewalk ... you advice (that traitor!) and it feels like a slap to the face that ... the same thing, and you start to accept it. That's the way the cookie

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  It's a little-known fact that McCormick Hall is home to not only ... Hall, which is a double-stack of donuts that houses two bloggers plus ... sailing, suffered two blows to the head from a wayward mast, pretended to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  (maybe a bit more, accounting for multiple bids to the same person and ... I know that the instant I saved this entry as a draft and it showed ... . Well, not nothing. My friend received a call and an invite to the

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  and I got to meet a Navajo (same tribe as me). He is currently working ... the talk with my Navajo colleague here he had a Phd and is going to get ... perspective on the types of people and ideas that lie in a prestigious

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  treadmill. The treadmill just keeps going and going. You're trying to reach ... , and then there's that whole thing about "living" (like eating, sleeping ... wrenching month, I've ultimately come to the realization that I'm just taking

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there an International Student Association/Community?

  The International Student Association (ISA) was established to bring together the diverse international community at MIT and to support international causes on campus.  
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  stalking Diana Eng and I discovered that she is going to be at the seamless 2 ... ! And I hear Ankur was even there! I could have gotten to meet a reality ... at Harvard and only came to the BSO to get off campus for a few hours

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  my way to the Student Center, I saw several people, and before that I ... what is to come to me as it just so happens I was and the in the items in ... left the thing, you know, and went to the other office. You know, that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  ! One of the big things I learned about Cambridge springs is that there is ... If there's one thing I learned about Cambridge in the spring, is that ... live in Cambridge, MA, how do I come to terms with the fact that I will

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012