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• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  present. I could live in Seattle, even. At the end of 2019, I made my ... resident of Green Lake, Seattle for a little over a month now. There's very ... associate with growing up in New England. There's excellent coffee, beautiful

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  as if i was abruptly thrust into the world of icebreakers! and New ... the range of opportunities MIT offers. the upperclassmen on my floor, in ... :   chilling at a floor gathering eating Chilean snacks (courtesy of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  ; I was so jealous of my friend Helen--she was working at the ed ... ; students are printing leaflets of resumes before the printers get tied up on ... laundry until after finals week. :D A lot of this behavior is motivated by

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... their poster is about. I was intimidated at first to be in a room full of ... This summer, I started a new [annotation note="Undergraduate Research

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• 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: Lubbock, TX High school: Lubbock High School College: Tulane University ... and the Boston skyline, both of which are right outside the Admissions

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

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  from classmates, and keep your finger on the pulse of life at MIT! You ... isle at Shaw's, trying to pick the optimal set of juices to buy. He can ... 's see how long I can keep up the facade of "being new to the US" and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  , learn their names. At the end of the semester, there was a quiz on that ... on top of a hill and at night the woods around were spooky and fabulous ... made the room burn. Whatever manifestations of worry there are, I felt

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  totally new experience for college freshmen. One of the most important ... at the inside. It contains a twisted bar of aluminum that plugs into an ... school students will be leaving home to go to a university knowing little

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  place with a new language. It's difficult. I'm envious of those ... Sophomore MIT-Germany Program Internship: University of Heidelberg This ... difficult, you can still learn an entirely new way to think, to communicate

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  will be "Pulsars"...Please confirm acceptance of this offer by 5:00 PM ... to look at things. --- A couple of weeks ago, my dear friend Davie ... , and it felt like I was seeing it for the first time. At the end of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Newly Admitted Student Events… ...coming to your neighborhood.

  

  Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT ... and MIT President Susan Hockfield for a night of celebration at Red ... Francisco. • Attend one of the three events happening across China at 12:30pm

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  had my very first go at a New York Times crossword puzzle in the ... -end lab to one that we had at the beginning of the year and it more directly ... picturesque slopes and bridges of the city of Pittsburgh at 7am on a Sunday

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  Massachusetts, many of them aimed at women. Harley Davidson had a stall ... addressed me, both of us engineers at MIT. It caught me by surprise when some ... ’ve gotten better at interrupting explanations of mechanisms that I already

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  quantitative measures of growth. I first realized my tendency to quantify at the ... a bright conglomerate of friendships new and old: three a ... easy to measure my life at MIT by courseload units, GPA, hours slept

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  part of my first semester at the institute: 7 classes passed Somehow ... Management), and 14.009 (Intro to Economics in Society). At the beginning of ... screamed at me when I was not taking notes that it was because of kids like

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  half subdivisions of very large houses - Gone out to eat at an expensive ... think "Finding heritage at MIT" is one of my best-written entries. ... prefers 9 or 9.5. Ah, the mysteries of life. Also, during term, my body is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  Physics of Living Systems in brand new Technology Square next to MIT in ... to help develop a mathematical model of the electric properties of ... property to keep track of how composites containing carbon nanotubes hold up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  learned a lot of new ways to see exactly where I went wrong. This also came ... The first quarter comes to a close at MIT. I am crocheting winter attire. My radiator churns and hisses through the night. Hundreds of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  parking lot, at the top of the mountain, a big muscular tattooed ... I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of ... -up to my first post about trying new things, and looking for adventure

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  back in New York pretty late at night. I came back home for Thanksgiving ... looked at the picture again. Not featured: a rare sighting of me at ... stadium was rather fun 9/19/21 At the beginning of the semester, my friend

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022