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• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  take a gap year, or scramble to find a job. We didn’t get to participate ... of you are there now. We find ourselves here again, trying to figure ... rejected from the last company we thought we still had a chance to work at

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  semester with only a few weeks left to find something to do before the summer ... anticipated feeling burnt out, and really wanted to give ourselves a break. Plus ... 't really on either of our minds. And we were lucky enough to be in a position

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  need to find someone over 21 to go to a liquor store and present a ... homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, in a country where the legal

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  . Despite a demanding academic schedule, he still finds time for a social life ... , presented the scholarship to Kubber in a ceremony at the museum last month ... focus on medicine, with a minor in Japanese. He also plans to take part in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  refreshing alternative to corporate Starbucks. A little later, we went rock ... mtvU. He deferred for a year to be in Andrew Lippas' Broadway-bound A Little Princess. Afterwards, we went to a hilarious improv show and hung

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  the city. You get to check them out for 30 mins at a time before you need to find a station to check in). This general lack of planning and ... adventure to see all. of. the. pretty. trees. Through a combination of biking

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  fisherpeople in Maine to find responses that could be used to argue for a whale ... end of April, and I resolved to find a major, the major, the one true ... , some have less, but you do kinda have to map out a courseroad if you

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  ? Hacksaw? Russ will always know where to find it. Everyone's getting a bit ... summer, where she gets to "work from home" one day a week and sit in her ... getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  the big radome dish to map out the rotation of our galaxy by finding the ... , they have a system set up to raise an alert after even just a few minutes ... , helping everyone in the Cambridge area get their data where it needs to be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  always, eventually, find a way to plant a seed, and watch it blossom. In ... , to become a resident tutor at Harvard, I missed the lemon, so I got ... girlfriend and I got a pineapple to eat at Whole Foods and instead of tossing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  , i missed home. a lot. to the point where ‘i just wanna go home’ was ... was just… there.  during winter break, i went to new york city for a ... at MIT and coming back, i would come to a constant.  during

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  to do a UROP involving research that's tangential to my major ... Linguistics Group, a group that uses large-scale corpus studies to discover ... languages all around the world. How many? Enough to populate a map like this

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  a trip to the Boston Haymarket where we learned about food in a local ... MIT is a weird school. Seriously. If I asked you to picture a normal ... hallway to climbing a rock wall on the side of a student-built wooden fort

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  , I find it difficult to solve difficult problems without using a ... the how-to :P This is a guide for how to restore an old, dingy ... ="61419" /] This guide is not a permanent fix; it will need to be repeated as

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  the period where freshmen get to meet and join living groups they're interested in. finding new friends who mesh with our community aside, as a ... a tremendous responsibility since, well, we've never not had a dorm to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Learned This Week notes and lessons from new classes

  

  and analyze a bunch of different assays to prove different biological ... far it's just been a bunch of review from where [annotation note ... lectures have a good vibe, so maybe I'll find a new appreciation for thermo

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  As a pre-frosh, one thing I really appreciated before coming to MIT ... that I continue to interact with and get support from on a daily basis ... it would be like. So with that, I wanted to put together a little recap

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  special to me. The feeling of connection is a bit more complex. When I ... remarkable things every day. It is also a place where many discover that their ... so) to share insight and perspective from a variety of experiences

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  My Head [annotation note="Right now I plan to keep finding music to go ... . Fact: Learning is a process, not a competition, and I’m excited to be ... way that I related to quite a bit: she personified imposter syndrome as

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  where there was a lot to do outside of just being at school. Sample ... did not want to live on a campus where there was freshman only dorms ... So four years ago, I began a year-long journey to start seeing what

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006