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• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  the past three years at MIT I've taken a good number of team ... well at applying knowledge.  Effective use of knowledge means quickly ... It's Career Fair season, and that means hundreds of companies are

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  not located at MIT during Thanksgiving break. However, I was able to ask Kyle S’16 (the organizer of the event) if he could talk a little bit ... dinner has happened for the past three years. A few of us who were not

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  then same thing — a number of those will pull back to the garage at the ... I know that the probability of every incoming student at MIT having ... that one group of people walking down the Infinite who block up the whole

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  another couple of weeks -- if we don't have it at that point, you'll ... requests: At this time, do not send a second copy of something that you ... thousands of documents. By not calling or emailing about this at this time, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  of its clasp and break, at which point I was sad and felt like a failed ... It's been 13 days since the school year began, and already, many of us are gasping for a break. There's a definite pick-up in the amount of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  .” Not that almost every week at MIT isn’t one of those weeks (is that one ... received 3398 messages since August. Only about half of them get read at all ... Considering the lack of inactivity on these blogs in the past week or

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  those of you just tuning in.) You think you deal with rude customers at ... 'd share with you some pictures of the waterpark I work at. I mean, I know ... Today was my last day at work, which was very sad. Well, let's go

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  , my roommate, hard at work measuring the length of a wall.) Of course ... lot of fun, especially after we decided to make a quick stop at Star ... finished at about 3 in the morning and spent the night with all of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  HOLY COW GUYS! CPW IS ALMOST HERE (42 minutes as of right now) You ... be setting foot on campus, many of you for the first time, to experience what a little bit of MIT is like. Can't sleep? Curious about what to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? About 25% of my blog posts are partially written while ... days of MITblogs, circa 2006. Long before my time, Sam '07 would prelude each of his blog entries with a snappy yet life-changing piece of trivia

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  down your professors who talk at .66667c, and condense an hour's worth of ... crazy things we do at school and lots of the execs came and sat with us at ... something nerdy, you do it at an impressive level, regardless of what it is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  good at it; I transcribed one line of dictation as "Wen essen Sie?" which ... life of a chemical engineer, at the request of an anonymous commenter ... I have a lot of free time tonight after finishing my 21F.401: German

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  , Honolulu, Hawaii, is a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... pianist at the same professional performance level as students at the finest conservatories, she has a perfect record at MIT in advanced courses across

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  . At the beginning of January, I flew back to Boston for a month ... overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets ... Houston. For the next two weeks, all I did was read at Barnes and Noble (I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• 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

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  fortress at Barad-Dur is rebuilt on the land of 10-250. The Exam yearns to go ... DID YOU KNOW? The landscape of the Charles River around MIT is almost ... , swimming and fishing are progressively re-emerging as about 90% of the length

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  ).[/annotation] If you take a slice of this worm at a given time, you obtain a three ... stagnant-- I'm growing with my worm over time, though at any point of the ... The way we interact in our three-dimensional world is frankly kind of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  . "Feelsbox" is a local word for an open-ended question placed at the end of ... concert tomorrow at 5 pm in 10-250, And, of course, the blatant ... reasons, and I was responding to an email on my phone at the end of a busy

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  heating oil. Not only do you get rid of agricultural waste (without feeding ... of it as well as some fertilizer and coal byproducts if you're lucky ... grotesque biological slurry of turkey carcasses (left) to 250 C, you get the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  I'm interviewing at five of the top seven programs in biology -- and ... project -- some of my friends at other schools have had "research positions ... Well, I'm packing tonight for my interview at UCLA's ACCESS biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006