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• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  out of 7.28 (Molecular Biology) at 1 PM, stopped by the lab for about 15 ... Newbury Streets; both are streets with a high concentration of shops, restaurants, and salons (read: girly girl paradise). I bought a cute skirt at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  required to buy x meals per week at the school dining halls. One of my ... pretty wide variety of food offered on any given day, so if you don't like ... I think I'm going to be fixating on food for a while, at least until

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  people In Real Life has always kind of freaked me out to some (albeit small, and rapidly decreasing) degree, and my composure will vary drastically ... topic of conversation, and how much sleep I got the previous night. Not

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  's How I Take Care of Myself at one of the most stressful colleges in the ... to study at one of the most famous STEM institutions in the world. Yet ... reminded me of SAD just last Thursday. I was at the Massachusetts Science and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  ’t be returning in September. At the start of May, the end of my ... -way ticket home. There was a semblance of relief, knowing that years of toiling away at problem sets, preparing for exams, and pulling all-nighters had

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  is 221 feet at a 75-degree angle. It reaches speeds of 77 miles per ... looked at that first drop, I felt genuinely scared of a coaster for the ... before, because 5th East was going to Six Flags New England, courtesy of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  were not at MIT. I backpacked through north India with a friend of mine ... practiced at MIT. I struggled to understand what was the point of all the research at MIT, some of which I was involved with, if successful research

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  Penguins at LSC for the impossible-to-adequately-reiterate low price of three ... at LSC. It's absolutely one of the most amazing movies I've seen in a ... . The Rime of the Ancient Mariner can be sung to the tune of the "Gilligan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  ). If you just want to see the fruits of our labor/insomnia, show up at ... was able to buy one of the last tickets at 3 AM. Thanks to Dave, the ... actually not too heavy on the wallet at all: $15 gas tolls: $3.60 x 2 = 7

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  what the name of Nance's baby is? We're very curious =D" I think I'm at ... . ------------------------------------- Kinan wrote, "I was just looking over at some of the comments that other ... " brochure, which I think does a very good job of offering suggestions for your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  videos, compiled from the great people at MIT TechTV and (of course) You ... For those of you who couldn't make it to campus for CPW, here is a video recap of much that occurred! I hope this is helpful =) And for those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  waitlist, to 739 students. We do not know how many will accept their offer of ... of the year to date in MIT Admissions. This year, we had 13 ... students than last year: an increase of 1 student, to 1554. Thus, our admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  was at the far end of the infinite on the third floor of Building 8. So ... seemed to elude most of the latecomers who showed up on the third floor at ... , they seemed to have trouble deciding which side of the hallway offered

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  -- all feats of engineering he tried at camp -- were very much his style ... Continuing our series Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor '13 ... valedictorian Trevor Zinser reacts as an impromptu tower of paper cups collapses

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  for different categories at the end of the night. Hacking officially ... allotted. At MIT, there is a proud culture of making things (i.e. robotics ... still hard at work cutting the final pieces of cardboard. 5:23 PM

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  more than 8,000 students at MIT over the past 25 years, more than half of ... I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  -- back when many of them were at MIT, course 9 was just psychology; the ... "Material Girl" at the top of your lungs. I found a pair of 4-inch Steve ... to real life. A GRT is MIT's version of an RA -- I guess at most

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  battleground at Concord (plus a lot of other really cool places). But the fun ... being offered to meet the caloric intake of every student on campus. Plus ... check to take advantage of any of the opportunities offered to the fullest

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  trading, and research. I have never worked at one of these jobs, but from ... Fund, or Fed (generally at one of the Federal Reserve's regional banks). You can also do this sort of work at places like the government's Office

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  of 2019 are now available at > > > decisions.mit.edu < ... , next fall. Of the students to whom we do not offer admission today, we ... Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015