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• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  I start each day to where I need to be. And I know that I really ... into Kendall Square, I took some time to stop by MIT's Media Lab, where I ... remembered there being a fancy couch where I could sit, and looking back, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  in order to amplify the correct fragment I'm interested in, I can run ... When I tell people that I'm majoring in Biology, they typically ... series, I decided to make an episode about some things I do in the lab! It

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  application by thinking a bit about the applicant's context. I can see much of ... throughout the reading of the application), I'll dive right in. How do you ... very helpful in getting to know you. Finally, I read the interview

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer?! (2010 Edition) Happy summer!

  

  7 countries in Europe :p) but I know there might still be awesome pics ... 'refrigerator'/blahblah I will post selected entries in a complete blog to come! You'll have at least 2 weeks to send them in. :) Will post when I get

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  upcoming semester. I can't imagine my first week, month, or year at MIT being ... why I expected the process of finding my place in a completely foreign ... growth to navigate and survive. Two years later, I can see the importance

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  place where I'm comfortable. And now that I'm here, I can really feel how ... hobbies. I feel like I can grow more as a person." In an effort to make this ... not be the most effective allies. It can be tough to feel comfortable in

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  participating in a UROP through the MIT Energy Initiative, where I am using MATLAB ... brownie from a mug (an activity I highly suggest) in my apartment in Boston, almost directly beneath the Citgo sign. A brownie in a mug! I'll have to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I can begin to even explain where I've been. At the risk of sounding ... shut down completely. Where I'm normally so in touch with who I am and ... 't really know what I'm supposed to be doing at points in time or where I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Maybe I need to get over myself - it's been six years since I was in ... Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in ... about MIT now and then :P So, I'm sitting in NYU's Bobst Library (there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  accordingly, I do have an MIT alert. About a month ago, I was chilling in my ... Humans and Automation Lab where I researched how people evaluate computer ... @mit.edu or post a comment, and I'll respond. Any questions about UROPs in

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  This year I read 20 books. Here they are in a tier list, ranked based ... what I thought you could do with literature. I’m in love with the way ... in on their own. Even in Ishiguro novels that I’m less fond of (Klara

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  haven't blogged in a long time, and I have quite a few posts from the end of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... 's quite surfaced yet :') That being said, I'm working in Washington, DC

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  pleasure where i go in with no list and just let my inspiration take me. they ... trader joes for the second time in two days (obsessed what can i say) and ... note="i live in Burton-Conner and thus am free from the shackles of a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  Hi Everyone! It's been quite a while since I last blogged. MIT can be ... . After my abysmal performance in ICE back in the fall, I decided to put my ... grade hasn't posted to WebSIS yet, but I'm pretty sure it's an A. I can

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  ) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my ... else comes in for Orientation next weekend.) I went back to my room and ... counting until I was out of Lobby 7, but I got 233. You know, in case you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  downs: I can think of semester after semester where I have struggled ... 't belong here, or like I was just in the cosmically wrong place. I didn't know why I'd chosen to come to MIT, where everybody seemed to just talk

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  startups to make returns. As an entrepreneur, being in their good graces and ... for one's company. I wanted to meet as many as I could and learn as much from them as I could before I started my own venture. Then on late

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  floor of McCormick Hall in Room 239, where I stayed my freshman year, is a ... course, MIT. I can see where I am going, and I’m with nice company too ... slow down. But, in truth, I can’t help but feel like I’d do it all again

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  , where the food was delicious and you can watch as they make the naan and ... the past eight years I've been in Boston, and we've never strugged to ... I'm back at my parents' home now (watching reruns of Buffy the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right in front of MIT ... buildings along the river in East Cambridge. I think the Back Bay area of ... Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005