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• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  footprint at the end of all of this. Now I'm not saying that I'm dying any ... to its end. And I do not want to be just an entry in the registrar's records, a person who exists on paper but not in living people's lives. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  thing MIT did”, or “This is what MIT looks like”. This is not that blog. I ... these blogs, does not. So for Mom V. (<3), here’s a crash course ... (pretend the fancy Fitbit only tracks speed, not distance). Taking the

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  industry, including stints on "all three sides of the fence" -- working for ... information about how our process worked, sure, but also as importantly, I ... the people who worked at MIT, to give you a chance to get to know us

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

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

  

  'm hunched over my computer trying to finish my work as I mumble, sounding half ... breakfast, sat through the opening ceremony, and decided that we were not ... morning. We started setting up -- we wanted to work on a Bacon number

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  same amount of work I'd do on a regular basis at school in person. I ... my online school experience. I spent a lot of time working on my final ... Saturday, which is usually the day I dedicate to doing pretty much 0 work

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  outside. Yes, you might not be able to feel your face or fingers. But you ... a lot of work that was half done but due later that day. The buses ... hussling it took to get out of the house. Everything worked out fine. I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  few months to finish up work on some papers, and started my postdoctoral ... development, but I’ve switched model organisms — I work with human brains now ... ’re keeping track, my postdoc at Children’s means I’ve done lab work at MIT

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

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  are all teachers – whether it’s working and learning together in the ... go, you are probably all set for most of life. What if I’m not ... one of the Global Teaching Labs anyway. Sure, teaching is a lot of work

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  sleep was not entirely forgone and no meals were skipped (I fail to see ... had a lot more work than usual. As a freshman, I don’t think I ... work. They make no efforts to spare the gory details. In comparison, my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  feel like they should blog." I completely disagree. I work desk when I ... , for an upcoming post about my favorite door on campus. (No, that is not ... experiment in 9.61. A lot of my work involves living in the New Media Center

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  ) posting it when I had no wireless. Not cool, Sam. Actually I went out for ... because I was learning about the people I was working with. The phrase "My ... words mean nothing about those last seven days when I worked from 9 AM to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  -by-step book on how computers work, written by Edmund Berkeley. It was one of the ... city to city across the country, visiting all the companies doing work on ... people doing work on computers and they would talk to me, give me their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  clearly failed. So, help me educate those who are unfortunate enough to not ... unlike any other school in the world. As a freshman, you can work in the ... cool kids do... that'll get their attention. Afterwards, I worked at the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  looked so interesting. And that's not to say it doesn't now. I'm just ... of transport. The actual work of the assignment was pretty simple, but ... -- as there's more usable time onboard a train. I can get work done for

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  , go home, go abroad, train, work, come to campus and chill, come to campus and NOT chill… for every friend i have whose IAP itinerary somewhat ... meters…not very american), which is a little under a foot under my high

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  thought I was travelling to Europe. I did not understand why, until I sat ... rush. At CPW, everyone seemed to be working on something, and that may have swayed me toward MIT, but access to research was not the deciding

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  . Not only that, but a group of us converged in the kitchen, all excited ... . Not much of a story, but I had to share it because it highlights the ... order to not to hurt my eyes so, in a way, the new hobby is a rebellion

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  are pretty much set on going to CPW with me, how is that going to work ... how CPW worked." bonbon wrote, "I'm with debbie are we staying mostly ... ). ------------------------------------- Melissa wrote, "Not a question to Matt, but can one of the bloggers write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  in school, but not long enough that my body has totally disconnected ... , full of promise and mystery and challenges that I'm not prepared for but ... the fall semester, barely able to believe that I passed and do not in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  ="no, untangling a human knot will not portend how well a team can untangle a work ... I am not a fan of icebreakers. It already takes a not ... the spot, so they can opt in (or not) on their own time and comfort

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023