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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  't get IAP off), I will organize my entry more than I ever have before ... delete the photos or if he still wanted them. He hired me on the spot to ... Institute-wide MIT blogs site and thought we were pretty pro. Matt and I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a ... Class of 2014 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two ... reply form on your MyMIT portal, just choose I will enroll at MIT and I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  an 8x15 space with another person for a summer without killing him or ... through the maze -- that summer was the major data collection period for the ... cheerleading captain the same weekend, and I didn't sleep or shower for a couple

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  Parker (Executive Director of the MIT Global Education and Career ... my realtor or landlord again.)  It's about trying to survive and thrive ... make eye-contact, she starts advertising in Chinese, "Buy some lotus

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  were from Snoop Dogg, so we were using the Spotify API and the Spotipy ... , trying to figure out what the heck was going on with the Spotify API. It ... around 1 AM, and we submitted it to Devpost, the platform that HackMIT was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  In last week's blog entry Diversity or Merit? I included the ... class, because whom it is composed of will greatly affect your experience ... systems which only consider so-called "objective academic data" (and I am

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  businesses. Typically, a “date” is bought by his or her friends, who pool together and “buy” their friend for an impressive sum. (I hope I’m doing a ... were California Pizza Kitchen, F1 Racing, Vapiano’s, Melting Pot, among

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  this random guy in his mom’s basement will generate a Pulitzer ... by AI “written in Rona’s style” or trained on my publicly available ... planned, by June, I will hold bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and computer

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a ... Class of 2012 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two ... online reply form on your MyMIT portal, just choose I will enroll at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  I emerge from three weeks of being fairly hosed WITH MORE COOL DATA ... tear-inducingly beautiful data visualization that you are about to see ... you to via email. For a data nerd like me, this is basically the best

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  the rest of this story, and some of you who are reading this will live ... ability to make reasonable judgments, however. So, whether or not you ... difficulty that requires you to reach out and work with your classmates, to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  free time or don’t feel like doing real work. Sometimes, Alexi will ... ’re looking to start keeping a little notebook or everything and have no idea ... [/caption] Historically, I’ve only ever finished three notebooks out of the dozens I’ve had

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  . There I was, slaving over a 18.02 or 8.012 pset at 3AM, being really no ... ’t worry,” he said, “After this, the real world will be easy.” I heard that ... solution. You know when you have reached the “right answer,” and the problems

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  very hit-or-miss: either I reached full points or the request was ... points, partial points, or no points for the question. The grader can also ... : Request: Hi, I'm writing to request a regrade on Problem 1.2. I got points

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will be present at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Albuquerque this…

  

  The MIT Office of Admissions will host a reception for participants ... ) to me (in the comments or via email). I hope you can join us! MIT ISEF ... international students at ISEF, I will be presenting a shoptalk: Admission to US

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  grade will come from three projects. Project 1 will be assigned at week 4 ... will also align with months: project 1 due two months into the semester ... for a revised version. Or the deadlines will divide the semester into

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  two classes. Assignment 1 – A White Paper (3.010) In true MIT fashion ... .nano or industry researcher: Using transmission electron microscopy to ... “characterize”? What do these big words even mean? “X-ray photo-” what now? Or

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  at home. There’s a concept called tingi, which is buying and selling goods in really small amounts. People buy oil buy the cupful, or ... -use seasoning packs, or shampoo sachets, or sugar, or detergent. Buying in bulk is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  I moved to campus this past weekend! It’s super exciting! I will ... sell all my extra clothing Things I actually had time for during IAP ... , through adjustments to things like the insulation, ventilation, or even just

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  excitement, a mobilizing force that will propel me to want to learn more for ... ! if you don’t buy it, no one else will. Don’t get caught up wth 100 ... MIT, the result of knowing that after this semester, I will be leaving

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012