Search

Search Results

• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  18.02 exams. Sitting in front of my desk at 4:57pm, I realized that ... and day to day obligations became the new norm. A shift of reference ... -inducing, and downright discouraging at times. But that’s one of the reasons why I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  plants, or giggling at the diagrams in Chapter 46 of the ubiquitous ... exciting one that you'll want to take at MIT, but rather, it's part of the ... offer an alternative from learning from large freshman lectures (all of my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  music and anime has been constant. I was shocked at how many of my posts ... month. My last year at MIT, I spent most of it ignoring school work and ... years at MIT, I gradually opened up to people, developed some new hobbies

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  Aiken concert Sunday night at the Bank of America Pavilion. Though I'm by far the biggest fan of American Idol at MIT, I was still a little ... of Clay at a certain internet message board at which Sam's Mom may or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  competition Scrutineering portion of the Formula Sun Grand Prix (FSGP) began at ... Nature has to offer along the route and were honoured to be a part of such ... encouragement you provided. Some of the team members at the finish line

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  On December 17, 2011* at 12:17pm EST**, I was accepted to MIT. After ... lame Facebook status about it and got a bunch of likes. Since then, I ... all the previously mentioned Awesome Stuff that it offered. And I loved

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  petals. Baby bunnies hopping around gleefully at your feet. The smell of ... to other schools that are spewing their judgments at you all of this ... that all tend to release within several days of each other. At this point

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  is actually very good, starting at Massachusetts minimum wage of $14 ... love the month of September because it’s the first month of the new year, the month of fresh starts and new beginnings. This September is one of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  THERE WILL BE LOTS OF CHANGES. New People. Places. Psets… HA. Really I ... Can you believe... it’s already the middle of August ??? ...and we ... exciting to look at)... I looked at the empty i3 DVD slot on the inside

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  'd offer a bit of unsolicited advice (but puh-leeze, you know you want it ... offer a statistic for those of you obsessing over the "chance me" threads ... REAL people who, at the end of the day, are still just your [somewhat

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  credits before the beginning of the second semester (one semester at MIT ... additional credits, you will qualify for sophomore standing at the end of your ... Model United Nations at MIT. I covered this issue somewhat in this entry

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  four easy classes and a return offer under my belt, I had a lot of extra ... feature histories of each major at MIT. I *really* want to know if one ... At some point during the semester, when walking to quarantine lunch

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  was particularly excited that one of the new astronauts was Kate Rubins of the Rubins Lab at MIT. Her lab hosts a number of undergraduate UROP ... number of MIT grads in space at one time, though -- last November, 4 MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  symposium that I attended on Friday was quite a different assembly. Held at the beautiful new conference center at Harvard Medical School, the New ... In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knowing me, knowing you My plans for Nobel laureacy, and everything I like about MIT professors.

  

  of the company, university, research institute (if you will be UROPing ... singles from the same album (courtesy Mitra). You all left a lot of lovely ... all of my professors in a different way. I don't know, call it Stockholm

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  ! Outside now, I wandered over to the site of the new Media Lab extension ... entrance. Peering through the fence I caught a glimpse of the brand new ... Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  thought I'd talk a little about the jobs I've had at MIT. I've had a job of some sort since Registration Day of my first term at MIT, and I'm glad ... freshman, because there's a lot of downtime, so I was pretty much stuck at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  transition. And in one sentence, I've completely ruined your hope of being surprised at what this entry was about and where it came from. Er.. let ... piece of parchment lodged in the mouth of a dazzling, sparkling horse of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  the Full New England Autumn Experience, but some parts of campus are ... calendar was a solid block of commitments from ~8-8, and the remaining hours ... adventure to see all. of. the. pretty. trees. Through a combination of biking

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  allele’ at 2 am, six hours before pset is due*) 21M.294 (Popular Music of ... that generously-portioned shahi paneer and chicken pakora at the end of a ... living at the confluence of a pandemic, a racial reckoning, and an economic

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020