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• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  Scandinavian furniture from your favorite importer... (I got a new bookshelf! I ... 've asked for old computers and furniture from a number of such entities ... , then stay tuned for a blog post about DIY supercomputing[2]! If I don

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  even better from here. Really, words fail me. I almost feel like a pre ... at my recitation for 5.12 (organic chemistry), where I spent an hour ... would have thought I could be envious of a pre-frosh?), because Dr

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  back to Switzerland for a week before the semester starts. I'm graduating ... semester, I only need 2 more classes plus a PE to graduate. I can finally ... as a first step, I want to always be working on a side project for fun

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  't have time to do. But with things lining up now, I can finally take the ... your lifetime! Although I can't take you all skiing with me, I did take ... holidays because a lot of our extended family doesn't live within a drivable

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  decisions, and I wanted to take a moment to offer a few thoughts, and to thank ... education, there remains the anxiety over how to pay for it. I know that for ... Hockfield argues that funding energy research is a smart investment, I think

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  breaks from lab eventually :) And for those of you applying, I'm in a ... I'll begin with a flashback. Scene: On my way back from my daily ... jones - blogger alum?!?!?!? did you really have to remind me? Can I at

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  , while sometimes I wish I didn't so fear the struggle for a better world ... they are all interrelated. More on that in a minute. I am writing this ... Guatemala and Honduras. Meanwhile, workers advocating for a better wage may be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  feel guilty for not responding to his question. As I mentioned just a ... Well my friends, yesterday I took a little bit of a nap on the bus on the way home from my field hockey game, and when I awoke, what to my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  a bit on your regular action applications. As I like to say, plan for ... While reading applications, I've thought of a number of things of ... , but you must have registered for MyMIT. If you qualify for a fee waiver

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  So the four year roller coaster called "Quest for a degree from MIT ... to study right? So what I've learned is that you can only read a book ... there was more of a story than that. So this semester I had just one

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  , three expectedly busy weeks. I’ve gotten sick for a brief period, seen ... storyteller I possibly could be. High school was a period of full bloom for me ... the blogs (for which I’m always grateful) and I had a bunch of stories

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  . For my classes with synchronous lectures, I never missed a single one. I ... November, I particularly struggled to find motivation. It's odd; a break from ... with social interactions, given I can get tested and have a particular

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  , and otherwise fulfill me. So far, I've met a *ton* of companies. I can ... that I am not a match for, some which would be alright, and only one (so ... Admissions Office who you are as a person. I get emails regularly from

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  feeling a little bummed at the end of the test :( When I went into lab later that day though, I had a surprise waiting for me that cheered me up ... definitely gotten a facelift :) I took the test this past Friday, and I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  exposure to the field. I’ll try to give a brief overview of some nanotech ... for Global Health Practice,” (HST.939) we had a lecture by the world ... manipulate single molecules and cells (and I had used a similar setup to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  plug for current students - if you want to be involved in iHouse, you can ... blogged for AN ENTIRE MONTH. tsk tsk. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. Truth is, I ... any pictures so I'll wait a little bit...and then... BOOM 5.12 exam

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  distinct disadvantage, even applying to a program for minority students. I ... waiting to go in for my recitation one morning when I overheard a tour guide ... received earlier that week from two of the six UROPs I had applied to for the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  , and right away, I spot my friend and her classmates from her new school ... , I thought, Wow, this is a sign I don't belong here...   But the info ... end up will be good for me, and I will be valuable to it. That place

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  I saw fireworks from the freeway… Happy 4th!

  

  you guys. This year, I have a difficult decision to make, do I watch the fireworks show from: A. Killian Court B. Harvard Bridge Also ... are just beginning. Oddly enough, I'm in lab, but later this afternoon

  • by Bryan
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  class. Rhetoric is not a HASS I recommend for the particularly faint of ... My cat is a little ball of static lately. It can't be too much fun to be a cat in the winter time. Today I wrested the last fateful drop out

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008