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• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  assignment, most dorms have an In-House Rush where you choose a hall or entry ... you can't live in an FSILG until you're a sophomore. Unfortunately, in ... the time and resources allotted for next year's Rush would be cut in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  here in Kuwait. It is vital for me to receive my admissions decision ... this fact in the application good enough for the admission commitee? (The ... some really tough courses (3 science subjects and 2 Maths in A Level) for

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  It is currently 10:53 AM. I have been at work for three hours and fifty-three minutes, and I want to take a nap. Since that is not really an ... -- since I didn't come in yesterday (I was up in Maine at Adam's ski condo

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  , and I have accomplished more than the average MIT student does in an ... squeezed in an hour-long workout. With the rest of my day, I will work in my ... future as an officer in the fleet. MIDN 3/c Robert Block is a sophomore at

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  . Suddenly, studying for a test, grinding out a PSET in the library, and ... item in your hands and say, I know how this was made, or so you can look ... I took a test early last week for my Japanese language and culture

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  pretty well-known for the performing arts, and I was heavily involved in ... mercilessly for the rest of third grade. This tends to instill in people either ... cell division or correcting the grammar in an English paper. My journal

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  were hockey jerseys in the past. For an interesting bit of trivia, the ... that we were ever good at hockey...we’ve been in the D-D+ league for IM ... , dozens of Bombers gathered for a Bomber wedding last summer in Kentucky and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  school is somewhat an apprenticeship in which you prepare yourself for a ... stay at MIT for grad school if you were an MIT undergrad. So hopefully ... breaks from lab eventually :) And for those of you applying, I'm in a

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  . The “T” is the shorthand for the MBTA subway system in Boston. Since the ... bikes. As someone who lived in Washington, D.C. for a few years, trust me ... before, but for some of you, this was your first time. I also know that

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  Facebook feed to find a ring that can replace my CharlieCard, an RFID ... Seow quickly adapted their invention as an easy and stylish way to pay for riding on the T. Their product has received the support of both the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  for the blogs was humbling. Taking A Look Back In all of the stories ... produce, but you can control the reason for production in the first place. So as long as I can identify an intention for myself and be a 100% sure

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  looking for. But those who do crossreg, in my experience, definitely enjoy ... For those of you who commented in the last post or emailed me, thank you for your birthday wishes =) I'm in the office today, reading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  an advertisement for Fall Career Fair on the back page. That means an ... companies are looking for what you've done on your résumé? Hmm, good question ... semester, I set up an appointment at the GECD office for a résumé critique

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  office, Ethan and I looked around for him. I felt this anxiety building in ... so deeply in my life fade into an acquaintance. All throughout high ... prepare for a different kind of reunion. I used to mention Aiden a lot in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  So, it's the middle of January and although it was an unseasonably 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

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  in silence for about an hour, sketching the sky as astronomers have ... my arms. Woah. There are six of us in this class, and it is not for ... , and are used to taking physics class in which the purpose is for us to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  my birth has become an accident of human history. See, I was born in ... crossing. My parents lived in the Canal Zone for 28 years and I was born ... For the integrity of alumposting, I'm pasting Daniel's bio from 2009

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  happened to be in Cambridge for the weekend, called me up and invited me down ... --he lived in a mountain village in Mexico drinking rainwater for seven weeks ... Portland, Maine--and in an area that I recognized, no less. Unfortunately

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  and my friends (one of whom is in TechX) had a meeting in there for a ... ; FAMILY: confused alpaca sticker: my friend Hannah got this for me in Japan ... : I've been working with Lifelong Kindergarten in the Media Lab for over

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  Last weekend was CES 2019, an annual convention in Las Vegas that I ... media affiliation), but I was able to get in on the last day for free ... reconsider a career in Big Farm-a.   It felt like an adult science fair

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019