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• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  "treadmill" that MIT can be: Sometimes it's hard to take a step back. This is ... : Mary Chin earned her BS in civil engineering and a MEng in environmental ... treadmill. And the world is a better place for it.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... . But I do think that there is a bit of a stigma about such plans in many ... submit a proposal beyond "lying on the beach," but often little more is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  've have a number of friends who have UROPed in HASS, and all have had good ... ), and students who are genuinely interested in the HASS subjects they take ... can do a UROP in HASS. Currently, UROP students are being actively

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  This is a guest blog post by my dear friend (and first person I ever ... passenger train receives woefully little love in the US of A, but it’s historically played a massive role in the growth and development of this land. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  working on a Masters in Fine Arts degree full time for the next year; Zig ... Episode 7 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is out now. Stories include Commencement and MIDAS (a.k.a. the party button). Check it out. Marsha Bolton

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students: MyMIT Updated Important and cool new information on MyMIT: check it out now.

  

  , learn about your classmates, find out who else is from your area and who ... the schedule so you can find out when the meeting in your area is ... Students admitted regular action have a whole bunch of new stuff on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  ). Having an interview is an important part of our process. Check in with ... 3514, and our ACT code is 1858. Don't slack off in school. Your senior ... 's housing system is the best around, and Caltech has a similar system I admire

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  the time -- this is before there was such a thing as the App Store ... making the right decision in choosing MIT. This was a peer group that was ... , especially to people like me who grew up in rural America. We all met in person

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  don’t feel out of my depth. Chris is starting his PhD in the fall ... —cold showers, early-morning jogs, 500+ connections on LinkedIn—disinterest me. A ... This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  This started off being a comment in snively's entry. Then it branched ... that advice. I do it myself sometimes, usually when I'm in a terrible ... , some of what ends up being said is tongue-in-cheek, but the implications

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  rules. In a proximal sense, the person with the gold is the professor ... A few entries back, Lena asked "How did you get the job in the lab ... took the job. I've been in that lab for two and a half years now; I work

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  hours in front of a crowd of 200 screaming people. The energy was wild and ... exploration"]REX[/annotation] was a week. A week. In just that time, I forged ... MIT student life in such a liberated and carefree way. Looking back, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  have to spend with a single fraternity in order to get a bid is almost ... as possible and decide whether or not they'd like to live in a ... nearly every freshmen male participates in Rush. This is totally expected

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  a big deal.    in fact, most of the point of life is that ... configure our camera, but in the end, all we do is we look at the sky. it is a ... right now    a lot of the times, i am my first invalidator. it is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  definitely feeling the exhaustion creep into my bones in a way that sleep doesn ... is essentially a collection of all of this: moments big and small since ... function of having grown up in NYC. Although I haven't gone on a run in a

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

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  everything else.) There is such a specific joy in wandering the city at 6 pm ... air that says, this could be you. Going to an art festival is, in a way ... had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  create is a self check-in of: would I be willing to put in the work or do I ... be in a position where I can help those who have less. I am empowered ... This is not a post about budgeting, because no one likes to hear how

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  . Maybe I need more people to talk to. In any case, that video is now ... things I mentioned in the video who stated they were uncomfortable with it ... /suggestions/lifehacks/ways-to-not-be-clueless-in-a-kitchen, leave those below in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  -DD-YY[/annotation] means that in America today is 9/10/19, which reversed reads the same, and is thus a palindromic date. It is, in fact, the first palindromic date ... -11-2002) 2002 was published as an illustrated book. A palindrome is a text in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write ... , but it's definitely more for people who write longer posts. The check-ins ... to blog next. Sometimes it's just a quick update and everyone is like

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023