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• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  and astronautics a thousand "internet years" ago, when those of us who ... place called a library to get information. It was, of course, uphill both ... grad school someplace with palm trees, I spent 16 years at the Jet

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  This year's commencement speaker, Salman Khan, founder of the Khan ... something that touched me profoundly: One of my roommates when I was two years out of college, who had formerly been a bit of a track star at MIT, and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  see, very concretely, the huge range of opportunities that are on offer ... Students' Weekend. Admitted high school seniors flood MIT for 3.14 days and all of campus puts on a bazillion fun events for them!) I wanted to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  other schools, but here are some of the approaches I’ve developed from my ... ’ve started as early as middle school, when I joined Science Bowl and was one of ... year here, I joined a business club because I was interested in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us ... time with his compadres! Q: We know you lead a busy life, full of ... life. Oh no. Q: We know you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  months. As this week comes to a close, so does MIT's week of finals. This ... people are ready to take it on without the training wheels. Both of my finals were on Monday, which meant I could spend all of Tuesday sleeping in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  's important to note that basically in terms of applying to grad school ... . * The movie is not shot on MIT campus at all. Most of the "in-school ... . Synopsis: (some spoilers for the first hour of the movie) Ben Campbell (Jim

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  back in high school had emailed me out of the blue and offered to catch ... kids at the playground, and a trio of middle school boys in neon orange ... it, and a tall, steep slide with no railings, a relic of past building

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  busy times of the year, like summer break. Here was my reading list for ... middle school) when I think I really needed to hear some of these messages ... huge one of those things is reading. I love books. I used to be one of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  Missa, Junior year definitely was a rough time. Most of high school feels ... next year, where I found out that my high school offered fencing as a ... floor of my school on Wednesdays until 6:30 came around and I could call

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  of just helps me gauge my offers and remember my goals. Blog every ... coding conference (2020) - Accomplished. I had the great fortune of getting ... , the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  fact that it felt all so high school to me; that these were the kinds of ... previous experience with large groups of men in high school, who seemed to ... crying and sitting in silence and really experiencing these new emotions of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  of what each community has to offer in just three days, but you can ... mind (this is a school of logical thinkers, after all), but it is so, so ... Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  the FRESHEST of fresh, like the Fresh Prince of Bel-air eating crisp ... game character or piece of sushi. As a winged version of myself, I had the incredible luck of flutterskating with a Viking, a pot of gold

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  basic idea of GTL is that you teach a classroom full of high school ... work as basically TAs as part of a middle school/high school outreach ... really technical major, and it’s hard to get outside credit from a school

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  -underrepresented high school students. I was a member of the business development team and ... . Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do ... okay. As in, while in the motions of school, work, and whatever else

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  talking about grad school applications and job offers. I began to realize ... , filling every square inch of this (albeit slightly smaller than the previous ... impossible. So now, I get to start of my days writing in bed as opposed to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  things. This is going to be the defining picture of this school year, for ... follow the path of an exponential function, info here) and research into the 1918 flu epidemic suggests that closing schools and cancelling large

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  completed typed 7.30 pset. I went through a full day of school, had 3 hours ... every member of the whole place thinks that it's the most wonderful place in the world--it's the center, somehow, of scientific and technological

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  of which I cared a lot about. I thought that, maybe, if I got an offer ... of all. Why not be a high school teacher, then? Teaching high school ... amount based on employment through the school year and on expected savings

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020