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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  the Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics, and it is actually ... , look online, and see all this hype around the acronym UROP; Undergraduate ... with no experience? While some of the opportunities I looked into

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  taking those first steps through Lobby 7 as a prefrosh. The inevitable soul ... , working in the machine that is Big Tech. My day to day involves a lot less work on psets, a lot more talking with people, and probably the same

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  field you are interested in, went to the grad school you are looking at ... fairs, even if you aren't looking for a job yet. They may not have a ton ... looking at. The MIT connection is a great way to find an in. You have to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  for providing their take on the Bono article? And now, your regularly ... + B[ono] + MIT = progress for the poor This must be the kind of thing ... also wants credit for inventing the mullet. Well, still, Mr. B... it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  , or just me. I wonder if she pities me. I stew on it for the rest of the ... them before they rot. I grab the Boursin cheese. I reach for two ... . She did. I can see the city across the river, and it looks different

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  scooting around campus much less from now on :o For the past 3 years, my ... . No easy way of getting around at all. For the most part, this was fine ... ., 2:44 PM, 6/2/2018 Hi ESP, This is not really the right list for this

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  for them all anyway. I pushed my way to the muffin baskets, which were ... for the bathroom. I was in the last group allowed to use the facilities ... by New House for a final swim test? Most people took the swim test

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  't even sure what field of internship I was looking for, seeing as I was ... "Sorry, we're not looking for freshmen" or "We prefer people with prior ... , and I'm probably going to continue to use this spreadsheet for the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  looked pretty bad. however, the email also said that there was a high ... for MEET. I was excited to meet all the other instructors and begin the planning process for the summer. the program seemed dope, and the more I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  team was looking for someone to volunteer for the Robot Parade. We were ... This post contains minor spoilers for the structure of MIT Mystery ... puzzles above and below Searching for something new The last puzzle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  for the people. The people are what make it absolutely worth it because ... love for art in so many ways on campus. The people are what make it ... cultural groups waiting here for you. I was one of the only Filipino kids in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  By now many of you have seen our new promo video on the website. And if you haven’t yet, you can take a look right here. MIT: Live the ... feel for our campus and what it looks like,  full of awesome buildings

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  business outfit (go Yellow Team!) for the final presentation and am about to ... your name will look like on the degree, but...let's not jinx this, okay ... TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  Admissions Wiki.     The Wiki is the new home for all of the ... individual bit of wisdom for the better part of a decade, until it was almost ... that it will do for blog entries what the Wiki will do for the overall

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  , looking at nearly forty-year-old man in the mirror, where a bright ... blogging, but wasn't sure if the audience would remain for the Class of 2019 as it had for the Class of 2009. And yet it has, as we sit here working

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  doors to the stout cabinet above the sink. Perhaps they were looking for ... ; Most distressingly: no one could find the Milk.  For those of you who ... milk sat. In the fridge. For months, long past its October 20, 1994

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  ISEF, here is a description from the Society for Science and the Public ... program of Society for Science & the Public (SSP), is the world ... portfolio) later this summer. For the next two days, I wandered around the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  was a sophomore in college I once ate for the Internet. I had missed a ... . Keeping up with the standard I had set by eating for the Internet, they ... hall. Here is the menu they set for themselves: Plate 1: Spaghetti

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  the men). Let's take a closer look at a few departments. Nationally ... say that there isn't room for improvement at MIT and in the greater ... think you'll find that, for the most part, it's not all that different

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  Note: The following is adapted from an article I wrote for CMS.350 ... too :-) It's three in the morning and MIT's campus is, for once ... day, it's the main artery for foot traffic among academic buildings, but

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014