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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  I think when you haven’t written a blog entry in almost six years, it ... first to graduate — I graduated with degrees in biology and brain and cognitive sciences in 2006. For those of you doing the math at home, that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  are all teachers – whether it’s working and learning together in the ... tutoring services (see #2 in that post – yes, I’m that Elizabeth), or any of ... me you now have 8 more tabs to MIT Admissions blog posts open in your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  At about 10 am on Thursday there were about 100 people in lecture for ... about how proteins made in the cell are marked for distribution to where ... to join us in the aisle?” By now the rest of the MIT Logarhythms were

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  gulped down the wetness in the air like I imagine a fish would if it, and not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my ... Washington, and I'm from the valley in Oregon, so we feel the same way on days

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  lettuce leaves in chill weather.” Blogosphere: “Right… work on those similes ... best representation. Other students probably save the world in their spare time. Anastassia: “I can answer that counter-chronologically in Blog

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  A few students pointed me towards this piece in the Wall Street Journal about whether or not colleges should consider legacy in the ... admissions” means preferring the children of alumni in the admissions process

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  beginning of this year. Two of the girls I had heard about in a very ... . A lot of people wonder what it's like living in a quad -- four girls in a glorious 500-something square foot room furnished with two sinks

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  enormous amount of work. In fact, this "simplicity follows complexity" idea ... 'm averaging 12hrs a day in lab with at least another 4 spent on work for that ... that in engineering, it's not that difficult to design individual

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  thing in particular—how accepting would that group be of my sexual ... knew that one was right for me. Senior Haus had a line in their i3 that ... straight allies who have difficulty finding a place that is in line with

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  realize... Spring semester so far, the new battle for architect majors in ... when I planned to major in Architecture @ MIT, I thought I’d be drawing ... first project in 4.113, each one of us had to thoroughly research a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  a joke. It's an ultra-cool door.) I'm in the middle of a tough week where I'm racing to finish up an incomplete in a class from last term by ... experiment in 9.61. A lot of my work involves living in the New Media Center

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  warm day in Boston today, I still had applications to read. However, I ... 'll go bed after I put in just one more piece, I promise." It's not a ... ...each piece of information in your application folder, is like the piece of a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  this long hiatus, I've been back in Taiwan (for 3 weeks!) catching up on ... , there's no time for puzzlemaking in MIT usually). Then, I returned to ... weeks. I'm working in Oakland, at an Asian health center there, serving as

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to one hell of a lightning storm in Fort Lauderdale, closing the runway for an

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  -vacuum air. By then, I had hit the road in a rented SUV headed for the woodsy ... obliging her request to post her charmingly Australian-narrated footage in ... Incident of the Box in the Night-time was performed at least four times on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  course name in all of academia.** It's a history class where students ... .” *An aside: My classmates in senior year voted me most likely to lead a ... , not even by an MIT person. In the end the lottery granted me 24

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  : describing the classes you're taking in a given semester. Well, now that I'm a ... ...well, now you have. I chose to do my concentration in Theater Arts. This will ... concentrating in Theater Arts or Creative Writing. Intro to Playwriting was the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  analysis for the 3rd 8.14 lab (Zeeman effect in Hg). My oral presentation is ... ? Well, I'm not doing this fabulous topic justice in the least. I brought ... during long walks down winding island roads. Succeeded in reading but not

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  ended up getting drenched in an unexpected deluge of rain. Yes, you read ... picturesque, and fun to play with (or in), it even can serve as a metaphor for ... falling from the sky, I won't deny that I always took a certain pleasure in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  were some of the few things that I actually attended after finding it in ... to a building across the river in search of a Boston frat, in the dark nd in miserable weather, I did homework. Yep. My host Jennifer (a

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007