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• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  notifications up the wazoo. 7:13pm - My Floor I went out to lunch at a Japanese ... knocked on my door to give me "a tour of French House" (because I need one ... (Monteverdi to Mozart) class. We discussed the score of a Bach French suite (No

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  sported a brass-colored bob that I can now admit was ill-suited to my skin ... ’s relationship, and who are we to erase a woman’s agency by assuming she must be ... to stay polite? Was it his fault for asking me a racist question, or

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  complete a Senior Research Project and I thought it would be neat to do my ... to be placed in a laboratory. I thought it was just because of my lack ... find a job and figure out what they want to do in life. I also used the

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

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  was going to be invited with a press pass, but if I couldn't make it, he ... room was electric. (MIT confession: I was going to make a comparison to ... In case you haven't heard, MIT has a new president-elect! This

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  I persuaded to come to Mexico as well. As a digressionary piece of ... impression is that at least a good majority of students who apply to MISTI do ... and a “Letter of Motivation” which explained why I wanted to do MISTI

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  furniture to ceiling when bored.1 I’m a pretty vanilla EC resident. My ... ’ll be an interesting thing to try for a month, but I don’t expect to like ... worse, “Oh my god, are you a banker now? Are you just going to sell out

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  remove it until we'd had a chance to talk about it, and he graciously ... going to become a heated debate between current students and other current ... credibility. But allowing the blogs to become a full-on soapbox is a slippery

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  -town hotels, accidentally drove through Canada, listened to a lot of [annotation ... prior, so I have a very distinct memory of us trying to find and ... . This city was where I learned how to advocate for myself and form a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  to communicate back and forth. The A/V setup worked surprisingly well ... transportation technology. Our bill, the TransporTech Act, aims to offer states a ... surveil individuals without having to lift a finger, and can mine that data

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  -back, carefree, and a whole lot of fun. This year my summer is shaping up to be ... might be interesting to play a little game: THE WORLD'S LARGEST PHOTO ... 'll give you a week from today to mail them in, and I'll post the results

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  worlds. Actually, it's a story about going to a water park. But the reason ... was a sweet vacation -- we got to eat Cool Dogs and scream our lungs out on the newest water slide, Dragon's Den. And I got to run around with a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  IHTFP, which can mean a variety of things to a variety of people, have been passed down through MIT generations as a sort of rite of passage. To ... years. I joined GEL for the opportunity to develop leadership skills in a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  [/annotation] major at Tufts and invites me to a life drawing session the other day in a ... for a circle of artists to sketch. Life drawing is essential to a ... planes and contours. It's fun to choose which ones to emphasize with such a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  to Hell, Hadestown in a song that introduces the cast of characters, before we know anything of the plot, we are given a spoiler to the whole ... the post-college world, i’d accepted that i’d never get a chance to act

  • by Phi A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  cliché but it meant a lot to me, especially considering where I had come ... question: “Are you afraid?” To my surprise, I responded with a serene sense ... ways life would be better if I could just find a cozy nook in the past to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  I live in Massachusetts. I am a freshman. I am in college. I go to ... . Like, actually, the rectangular building used to be a warehouse for some ... a mailing list to know where to get the free food), and of course

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  as a student at MIT. Got back to GHAMAS to set up for the Hartford ... rockin' (usually we have to bring that stuff with us). They had a free ... I hope we will), we'll move to the theater, which holds a few hundred

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  low on a homework before, and I honestly was so confused as to how I ... taken a class and gotten so much out of it before. I did start going to my ... in my schedule. I saw that it was much more rewarding to take a course

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• FAQ / Transfer

  Are there other classes I should take beyond the recommended coursework?

  what you would like to major in, you may also want to take a look at the ... While we can't recommend specific classes, you may want to compare the courses offered at your institution to MIT's by referring to the MIT
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  . Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in an apartment, only to find that they're all related at the end to a ... the heirs that the race is on to claim his treasure, and leaves behind a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008