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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  cognitive sciences in 2006. For those of you doing the math at home, that ... wearing my brass rat flipped upside down for just over eight years now ... cortex of mice. (I wrote a review! And drew the pictures for it!) I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  It's April. I’ve been on campus for close to two months now. It ... out the [annotation note="curse my room for having such a good view ... , though! Just today it was like [annotation note="24 celsius for the normal

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  I know that with all the hubbub for admitted students, some of the ... here's a quick update. Waitlist It's still too early to know whether or ... can admit. For now, we are waiting to see how many of the 1597 admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  ) Ring Premiere happened! For almost a year now, I’ve had the privilege of ... Rat for their class.  If you don’t already know, the Brass Rat is a ... started off rather unassuming. For the first few hours, my tasks consisted

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  desperate for sun. there was nothing to eat that wasn’t smothered in grease ... did a sub-par essay. I sat here for two hours, thinking of characters ... , surrounded by friends. I’m wandering  intermittently to the free food table

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt begins tomorrow A fun puzzle to solve.

  

  way, will be a six-letter word. Good luck, have fun, don't cheat, and

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

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  of other things. It moves quickly through different topics, all of ... to try to solve it. This year, we have to create a controller for a ... .033/www/dp1/. Feel free to submit solutions in the comments. My one

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  EA, RA, and Transfer Updates Including the status of MyMIT tracking and the latest for those impacted by Sandy.

  

  your school/teacher forms.  Best wishes for a quick recovery! RA ... looks! MyMIT Tracking for EA: We are still processing thousands of ... . Transfer deadline: Tomorrow, November 15, is a transfer deadline for MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  . And I chose to go to a city nearby and taste that heavenly sweet potato with the sesame paste on top. For a few hours I felt the city move and I ... just in different hues. I've been traveling for the last month around the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  , we had to hit several locations–Whole Foods for the pre-cooked turkey ... I’ve been home for winter break since last Sunday, and it’s been a ... ! Sophomore fall has been busy for my friends & I, which has meant no more

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  for "remote hunters" - people participating from distant cities and such ... lab for three 4.5-hour shifts each week, and got to plan, prepare, and ... that many friends already do and that I've been interested in doing for a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  mind. 1. The third-largest city in Ireland is called "Limerick" 2 ... these things! One of the questions was "What is the more common name for lateral epicondylitis?" I won the "funniest answer" prize (a free entree and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  . Feel free to use the summer to study for them, but don't feel pressured ... terms of what to do and what not to do, what works best for me and for the ... implements pass/no record for this first semester for a reason and that's so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  : The weather on campus turned beauuuutiful this week (just in time for ... delightful wander around the city. We got back to MIT just as the sun was ... to start working there all the time, just for the view!) but here's the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  place one week at a time. For me, each week is like a round in a boxing ... hit the mat. Talk about being knocked into next week. You win this time ... that you're a stronger person for it. Ok, enough of that. This post is

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  dependency on cars for getting around. Now that I’m in a city that’s as ... attention for hours on end.  That being said, my favorite Hermitcrafter is ... getting struck by lightning (I hope), putting my goals for the year into a

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  cities Andrew L. ’24 had especially prepared for and written [annotation ... how many cities you can name in the US, Europe, Asia, Africa or the entire world.  They tried to name all the cities in the US. I wasn’t there

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  concepts pretty quickly. I'm most excited for the mandatory piano lab and ... Wednesday and I've had each of them once by now, so I'll give a quick rundown ... Thermodynamics -- Last year, my UROP advisor, Jefferson W. Tester, taught this for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  heading back to Cambridge for a quick apartment move before the start of classes. Whew. When I made the decision to come back to MIT for grad school ... transportation and city planning in a few weeks. I am rushing to finish up my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  it's a bit of a big deal for me. My first post, Colorful, is ... for Tagalog. The words mentioned in the post are all Tagalog words, but ... acronym for Original Pilipino Music. It's a catchall term for Philippine pop

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022