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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  how hard is it to land a research position in the first place? All of ... we can assume is a constant, akin to death and taxes. Naturally, almost ... 't heard much about it until you've heard it from an MIT student - and a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  told enough how hard it is. I came in hearing “yeah, no one gets an A ... attend as a prefrosh. But this is really fun as an MIT student, too~ I ... what that’s ok. It is ok. Many people have failed a class, or even

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  The Summer…? Every Story is a Story That Ought To Be Shared As much as I ... naturally lined up with that. Summer is a time for MIT students to spend three ... it getting chaotic? How do I make sure that there is variety to the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  : Getting Our Money's Worth of 'Healthness.'" What is healthness (not a typo ... Health Organization.) This is appalling; we consider ourselves to be a ... health is a strategic national investment, and that we’re at a tipping

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  it here, or let you read the full text below: It is truly a deep ... place is just a front for a DARPA-funded human breeding project. However ... likely of which is that the admissions office here has a somewhat unhealthy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  symptoms include: Feeling quite hot, but in a 100°F kind of way Fatigue, surprisingly unassociated with a heaping workload Being miserable (much more ... Oh how the months have passed- from fall season to finals season to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  realizing how much of a shitshow the movie was, we switched to Pitch Perfect ... had a relatively rough high school career and I really wasn't sure how I ... psetted for 18.01 (because I'm a dumb bitch that procrastinates far too much

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  the 2006 World Cup is "a time to make friends." Who wouldn't want to be ... the Hofbräuhaus, which is probably a little like Durgin Park in Boston ... . In München, the standard size for any beverage is 1 liter, pretty much

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  Hollis teen is a Presidential Scholar with a summer job at Google ... : Just how would I break the search engine?" said Smith, 18, a Hollis ... 's award-winning dance program ("Dance is a sport here . . . the MVP of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  his Virtual CPW Project is a great way to conclude this entry ... So I did pretty much everything I said I was going to do at CPW, but ... at the registration desk, shown here with Anthony. This was a special

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  and floodgates. He is doing very interesting work in a city with similar ... Palm Beach, and tomorrow is meeting #3 in South Miami at 11am. A full ... , Orange County, Florida... though I will be holding a meeting in the "real

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  going to college in a city, and one of them is the proximity of food ... cups, several plates, a bunch of utensils, and after much searching, 12 ... how much we were able to get done without setting anything on fire

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  and molecular bio, so 7.015 is a good time and I like that it's a smaller class, with about 70ish people. 8.01L is a similar situation: it ... , Pablo is a great professor. 18.01A, though. Oh boy. Last month, I did

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  is essentially a collection of all of this: moments big and small since ... . Honestly, all it takes to make me happy is a little sunlight and a little ... really don’t want to do much of anything except maybe lie in bed and stare

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  semester I realized how precarious it is to strike a balance between being a ... family for going three weeks before replying to a text. ‘School is crazy!’ is always a good one- an honest and unquestionable summation of what it

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  my planner to Google calendar-ing. Coffeelings is a mini journal that ... shows you a broad overview of how your mood has been over the entire year ... makes opening a new website tab for homework so much more enjoyable

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  . How often is it that you can say that you were in a place where it was ... 's already a reading assigned for 5.13? This is nonsense. This year is going to ... 's a much more academic that started out by learning the language of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  Immunology and enjoying my time at a university that is very, very different ... , matriculation, and formal hall (which is just a formal 3-course dinner served in ... ’s a picture from our Matriculation, which is a ceremony after the first

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  friend and neighbor (the one with green hair) is a pet mom to two bearded ... table is up for grabs. In this case, my 119th birthday cake (it's not a ... things. Back in the day (circa 1890), this is how MIT Admissions worked

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  kinds of popular platforms. And the real cultural story is that a place like MIT, and a department like CMS/W, is willing to experiment ... together in a room and figure out what the heck is happening. I feel very

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014