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• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  ’m Mollie! I’m one of the five or six(?) original bloggers, and I was the first to graduate — I graduated with degrees in biology and brain and cognitive sciences in 2006. For those of you doing the math at home, that

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

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  so readily frequented by my floor that we have a stash of Beantown coupons attached to one of our refrigerators and an entire system for ... restaurant recently introduced a new kind of delicacy--the memelord burrito

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  to wake up to a universe on the brink of extinction, with all remote ... the universe, this all having raised up an image in my head of a world ... underground, mining a good amount of gold and lapus lazuli and a couple more

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  happening back in the Philippines. Here, it’s ever present: news of gruesome, unjust murders of black people, and news of senseless police brutality, every time I get on social media, every hour, every day. And of course I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  on the topic of extra-curricular activities. We collectively lamented ... "just to get into college" instead of encouraging them to follow their ... (and reward) the latter when we read, and that one of my favorite admits

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  to August, and I’m about to start at the Zoom Institute of Technology ... last couple of years in high school, I was in a near-constant state of ... too much, having too many interests, putting too much of myself into my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  that's the whole point of a technology showcase but let me FEEL!) I'm a ... didn't even know about until a couple of my friends told me to register ... a quarter of the displays. The Las Vegas Convention Center is huge

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  characters. It's cool technology, it's kind of like having a magic looking ... Alright, a quick peak out of blogger retirement today to share some Lobby 7 hacker awesomeness. 1) If you haven't heard of hacking, go here

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  1 Month, 0 Classes IAP tomorrow and an opportunity to mystery hunt!

  

  technology public policy strongly guides the future of science education and ... ...well only if I choose to. Tomorrow marks the beginning of IAP (Independent Activities Period)...It's one of my favorite times of the year

  • by Bryan
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  freshman here at MIT now, although I have no way of proving that. The irony ... terms of competitive college admissions and how we (meaning all colleges ... down a notch - otherwise the lives of high school students are destined

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  right now I'm in Mountain View, an hour long drive from SF. The scales of ... 5 million people. Both of these are small compared to the Bay; even ... average. The delay's not due to waiting or a lack of options, but due to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  the greatest benefits of coming to a university like MIT is that it ... -on-a-drum-with-a-stick thing.) Not only that, but our three hours of practice a week count as a class (21M.460), open to just about anyone with some sense of rhythm and a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  Yesterday evening at MIT had a fairly random pair of events: First ... advance screening of Blades of Glory by the Lecture Series Committee (LSC). I hope you don't think less of me for going to a talk about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  some sort of Associates’ Degree, from a community college*. So I became ... know what I thought was my shining glory, my thing to be proud of, the ... people who tested out of a lot of our required courses and were already

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  Last day of lab Friday was my last day at my UROP lab after three years of research. I cried. Thankfully, I didn't cry until after I got ... crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  before I go off and become an adult. It's kind of strange and at the same ... ", Texas whereby "Suburbia" I mean for my first year of high school, I lived in one of those neighborhoods where your elementary school was one

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Continuing our series Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor '13 ... valedictorian Trevor Zinser reacts as an impromptu tower of paper cups collapses during a class barbecue to celebrate the success of their woodworking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. Young specializes in the ... Close up shot of Pluto. (Image Credit: NASA) On Jan 19, 2006, the New ... made its closest approach to Pluto. It sent back a preliminary photo of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  years ago!) This summer, one of our goals was to find another sea turtle ... more than 2 months to no avail… One of the nights we wrote a poem with ... and started laying her eggs. It was around an hour or so of her mainly

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  have degrees from 3 different colleges and all of them have students ... interesting -- something outside of the bounds of routine admissions ... of delight for some, and anger and confusion for others. Guidance

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013