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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee Wrap Up For those interested . . .

  

  each candidate would be available for in-person interviews. However, the ... interest in this process, for reading our many emails, and for responding ... selected through an application and interview process, and many of you

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  lounge for the occasion, and we spent the whole day cooking in the kitchen preparing food for our favorite professors and instructors ... Kerry N. '14 and Kate R. '14 Green Beans in Egg by Diana H. '17

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  ="manic? sleep deprived? There may be another word I’m looking for ... , or if it’s just for two weeks in April, which is when everything seems ... kids at the playground, and a trio of middle school boys in neon orange

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  example, one of my favorite students spent a year as an EMT in Israel before ... taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  my favorite students spent a year as an EMT in Israel before his ... taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  saltines for a meal, hoping to recreate Chicken in a Biskit to slowly ... for "when I have more time" -- sleep, for one, but mostly art. Two hours of bliss in Photoshop, above. Shameless plug: I'll be selling prints

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  This summer, I worked for fourteen weeks as a software engineering ... learned this summer and what it means for me going forward: I shouldn't care that much about compensation. Of course, most people are not in a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  ? Last semester it was “no” for me, but this semester it’s “yes, I am totally positive.” When I registered for classes in the fall (last) semester ... and you fall asleep in your chair, or at least get pretty sad and decide

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Events

  #NoBanNoWall

  

  rally Students have organized a gathering in Lobby 7 for today at noon ... * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * student-organized rally in lobby 7, about an hour ago:   chancellor ... the United States is already having an impact on members of our

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 29, 2017
• Blog / Events

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

  

  years, it was understandably a big deal for me when last Sunday, in the ... stood out there, victims of the natural elements, for about an hour. This ... Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  Human Genome Research Institute? Thanks a lot for your help." This is an ... ://www.training.nih.gov/student/) with links to student programs. After sending in the Summer Internship Program (SIP) application (which includes 2 recommendations, an essay, a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  . Brian came to MIT from California as an undergrad.  He majored in ... for one of the most prestigious research journals in the world: Nature ... As an alum, people often ask me what I liked the most about being at

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  , where it sat in solitude for three weeks. I then, right before departing ... took the token out of my pocket at the Back Bay stop, in preparation for ... DID YOU KNOW? The chocolate chip cookie was invented in Massachusetts

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  mention them in an entry(Adelaide '09 and Meara '09). Hell, people even get ... wrote an article about us breaking records!) but when we lose, we lose spectacularly. Like last night, we lost 1-0 in double overtime on the road and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  freshman from Bay St. Louis, MS, interviewed me yesterday for an article in ... affected in the Gulf Coast in our minds and in our hearts. It's an emotional ... . Get in touch with us when the time is right for you and we'll be happy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  join? I work for the Night Committee as an usher. I collect movie ... presenters to the MIT community in the large lecture hall 26-100. We show movies that were in theaters recently and charge four dollars, but every

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  I moved to Michigan for an internship, but I swear it feels like it ... much more work maintaining friendships in the real world. I take for ... that leads to three nights in a row of cereal for dinner. Don’t do it

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  working really hard for an MIT degree. MIT kids are really good at delayed ... depends on where you live. In MacGregor, it's fairly rare for a student to ... (including the friends for whom I did homework), so Latin IV was an independent

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  . "Normal," meaning not going to bed at 3am and waking up just in time for ... the 8th, I flew into NYC and settled down in an apartment in Manhattan with three of my friends from MIT also externing in the city for the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  CPW doesn't get boring, even for current students. Despite many of us having classes and tests during CPW, we still put in the effort to throw ... the ones we do for Rush. FSILG's (Fraternities, Sororities, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017