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• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  'm happy to be getting lots and lots of sleep in my FULL SIZE (!) bed at home ... ). This isn't really unusual, and it comes with varying degrees of annoyance ... " of intro bio- another flavor offered in the fall as 7

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Good Luck Jo-Jo!

  

  (Jo-Jo) Chang '03. I first met Jo-Jo my senior year at MIT, when I was serving as President of the Undergraduate Association, and she was serving ... degree in Electrical Engineering, Joanne now works as a management

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  There are many applicants to MIT from many types of backgrounds, and ... awhile, we would expect to see the results of your standardized tests ... that non-traditional applicants take some college courses at a community
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  a firehose. Here's a quick look at my calendar and a recap of the ... the Skating Club of Boston or at the MIT rink, or the Burton Conner or Z ... exhibition at the Skating Club of Boston, yet more practice for the big event

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  .E.M.E. degree. i have enough sayings that you can make a soundboard of me and no ... . No easy way of getting around at all. For the most part, this was fine ... the electronics-filled windows of Cruft Hall at Harvard University

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  ROI on most undergraduate degrees. It is incumbent on all of us to do ... I spent the beginning of this week in the company of a select group of college enrollment leaders and college counselors from across the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  engineering curriculum at MIT, which is structured to hit you with most of your ... say that at chemical engineering faculty luncheons and choice of major ... -year programs. In fact, for the chemical engineering degree, instead of doing a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  Name: Amy Perez Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions Hometown ... , Bachelor's degree in Marketing Favorite things about MIT: I love the MIT Dome and the Boston skyline, both of which are right outside the Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  majors, currently a master's student at the University of Cambridge ... degree (for example: I took Systems Biology, where a large focus of the ... the bigger departments at MIT so you get to meet a lot of people with

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  on at MIT): 6. I'm in Europe because of 21F.782, which is a Spanish II ... every day (from 10 AM to 1 PM) and at least one test every day of class ... IAP language program that exists at MIT. There are plenty of other

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  It was 86 degrees F in Boston on Wednesday! A blooming tree in front of the Senior House dormitory Now, I'm in New Jersey for the wedding of an MIT roommate. Lots of old friends from across the country are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  :) People gathering around the condiment table at Crepes Night!   One of ... Airport at 4:30 in the morning. I clocked a grand total of 45 minutes of ... thunderstorm. One of my favorite classes I’ve taken thus far at MIT is 6.s04

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  out at the sea of faces and realized what a magical job it is to be the ... ...>"<), surrounded by laurels and the two-sided owl (both symbols of Athena) at the ... amount of construction at MIT is seriously alarming. Building 76 aside, it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  moving to Westgate at the end of the month, and suddenly we have to buy ... /ISBNs of books needed for class anywhere but at the Coop itself. (Smart, eh ... one from last spring is here. A lot of people at MIT do five

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  and reputation, it is often discounted. So, at the end of each of my ... School of Dreams (a case study of Whitney High School in Los Angeles ... , and could only admit ~1600 students. But most of the students to whom we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  ?$%!@# place." Sometimes it means both of these things at the same exact time ... , keep in mind that I was pretty worn out at this point. 12 hours of sleep ... that I could just blow off the rest of my work and still at the very

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  tag was labeled with the same number). At the end of the week, my mom drove me to Washington, DC, where I moved into one of the dorms at George ... considering going back to the NIH, and I had an offer at Genentech, but I really

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

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  receive a Masters degree in some area of engineering combined with an MBA ... distractions, and offers lots of desk space to spread out! Enough studying! Movie! Two things I do significantly less of when I’m at MIT is drive and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  , 12 to go. That sounds a lot better. Exam week is a busy time at MIT; a lot of living groups have free breakfast on exam mornings, then ... and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  It has only been a couple of months since I left MIT Admissions for a ... official member of the broader MIT community, I find that it is difficult for ... . To some degree, the disconnect is easier to explain.  I no longer live

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012