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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  for a tubular products company, TMK IPSCO. What I did not mention is ... to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one ... with some of the coolest people in the world. And it did happen for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  when the Bad Ideas Weekend email (and subsequent reminder email) hit my ... nothing more of it for two months. One Month Before Bad Ideas I had a plan for IAP. A blissful period of rest, exploring Boston museums, baking

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  Hello everyone! I thought up this title as a metaphor for how the week a few weeks ago hit me, but apparently said week hit too hard for me ... ’s a discussion for a different blog."]five[/annotation] classes this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  at the other Cambridge, Cambridge University, for the past almost 6 ... getting sprayed... For two glorious days, us engineers relaxed and ... at a computer screen for such long hours. So. much. sad. I feel like a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  I first set foot on campus about five years ago for my MIT Admissions ... of college, I searched for opportunities at nonprofit organizations ... students, reading their applications and interviewing them for the

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  have less “free-time”, but I made up for a lot of the busy time during ... arrived, I feel ready for the next two months of school before the summer ... March, a presentation that accounted for 30% of my grade, and what felt

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  afterward. Then, I’m going to Chocolate City for Ill Vibes, an open mic sort ... and free food. It's all very exciting. Everyone is very excited! Ahhh ... did get myself involved in things (hooray!). Today I went shopping for a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  (Looking for a CPW Post? Read Rachel's! Looking for retreat ... substitution, or u-substitution, in that monthly amounts are probably good for ... facilitators. This is a great opportunity for first-year students to get away

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  abundance of free food and the suspicious absence of work, but I felt I owed ... Muslim Students” Association joined forces for a dinner celebrating the ... dining hall fit for Hogwarts. It was nothing like that. That was Thursday

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  -year life cycle I bought a JuniorTicket for 13.40 from the Leverkusen train station. It lets me take the trains and buses around the city where I'm living Köln or Bonn as much as I want. Even though it pays for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  people in my home city. People that had been living there for ages, but ... now. For better or for worse, everything about me has changed. I want to ... , and really opened up. I played music in front of people for the first

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  skyline of a city I call genuinely like calling home. In a quick recap of ... being said, I cannot wait to see what’s in store for next year. My whole life, I never really made a resolution for New Years. I always kind of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  while I’m excited for the sunny weather and the shorts ... frenzy looking for something constructive to do. Believe it or not, I started planning for this year’s summer break last year August, a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  for any mice expressing an extended circadian period but otherwise ... study, there are a ton of things inherently flawed with this quick-and-dirty method of looking for a mutation, the most obvious one being the sheer

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  birds called zebra finches, which are known for their ability to sing ... , mostly because I thought I would be interested in getting a UROP for the summer in order to stay on campus. However, the opportunity arose for me to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  the problems, quickly growing frustrated at the fact that none of it ... the area who could easily be hit by anything you may or may not throw in your many fits of frustration. So you decide to punt the thing - for now

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  /you/ there, here's a quick recap, sprinkled with pictures from last ... 's name for its EECS department) lets students work at companies and use that work as material for a Master's thesis. The companies can be right

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  free summer for the first time since high school, I knew things had to be ... For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full ... have a lot of "free time", free in the sense that you don't have that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  quick 30 minutes. I remember every time I would talk about something ... . Why was I embarrassed for losing a chess game with no stakes nor ... how my nose twitched with frustration as I hit "Yes, I would like to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  complicated water is. I created this post as a sort of quick-guide to water, and ... can read more about that here if you want!)   For context, Muti ... there, because that's one of the requirements for us to just physically be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016