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• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  ? No. At some point, there’s too much scatter between a set of options ... history of the universe. This would horrify undergrad Anna, who was afraid ... graduated, Arthur offered to put me in touch with a medievalist at Caltech

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  Bombers move off the floor in their four years at MIT, and all of them ... classes ranging from 1969 to 2018 were at the 50th anniversary of our annual ... an engagement party last fall in New York. Both events were like mini

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  the end in itself. Take advantage of what MIT has to offer you, because ... Hi, readers. Congrats to those of you who got in. I remember when I ... surprised - I had not expected it at all! Enjoy your victory, but remember

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Philly, Jersey, Wilmington. Jess, Keri, Lulu.

  

  , although it's only been a couple of weeks. Lots to tell you about. Fall Travel About an hour after I launched the new site (talk about cutting it close), I left for the first leg of my fall recruitment travel. As to not

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  it is you do. There's a whole new world full of opportunities about to ... , Yan's vocabulous wit, and Anna's inspirational eloquence, I can offer you a byte (or a few) from my bottomless cache of labyrinthine analogies

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  , Pennsylvania, and New York; about 15 applications so far today, all said. And now ... story: my first term at MIT, I had passed out of single variable calculus ... sort of community service, do you think id have a chance at getting a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time ... best time on the New York Times crossword puzzle, the chemistry teacher

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  summer, though natives say it's not even as bad as boston or new york ... there. being in new york city for a week before school was a slap in the ... missed. i'm living in a cozy single at the end of the hall. i'm genuinely

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  ] the menu of the most expensive restaurant in New York City -- good thing ... nearly-2000 year old piece of wood, and a three-level gift shop at the ... is worth two and a half hours of waiting) a colorful look at Dylan

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  going to a shisha café (see a theme?). My flight was at 8am on New Year ... drive me the 130 km to the next station at the meager price of Rs 2500 ... students from the University of Virginia, made the journey down to Agra to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  (#MIN87) being at Bullhorn's new headquarters on the 17th floor of 100 Summer Street, one of the many tall buildings in Boston with its own ... /Oliver Queen. Source: Imgur   Every time I go to one of these events, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  of Intuition   The deadline to accept college admissions offers ... ’ve learned about making decisions in life. Some of you probably received offers ... Course 6 classes. Some of you may have to pick a college because it offers

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  you're following the storm from home, I highly recommend the New York ... ;   One final note: for those of you who already have students here at ... I've decamped from the Boston area northwards to New Hampshire for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year ... "grow up with" the web and it's a (the?) predominant source of the ... you as it might have been for my (pre-internet) generation of college

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  the electronics-filled windows of Cruft Hall at Harvard University ... at the start of my junior fall, I upgraded to a new A6 scooter ... . No easy way of getting around at all. For the most part, this was fine

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  . Seriously, there's this one recording of Ives "improvising" at the piano, in ... at the piece and found that each of the four parts was set almost ... wake up for a 1 PM lunch with some of my marching bandmates from high

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  of New Jersey. [annotation note="to clarify Shruti did all the driving ... .” With the exception of another friend actually from New Jersey, people ate ... more days, location tagging more pictures of random New Jersey foliage as

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  Taekwondo, I once went to a tournament at the University of Vermont, which is ... I am graduating (at the time of this being posted, graduated), I thought it would be interesting to look back at how many of these items I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  far less to do in terms of taking care of myself when I'm at home! There ... world, including (but not limited to): investment banks in New York City ... Phil asked, "oh btw Melis, would u equally prefer working at MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  kids at the playground, and a trio of middle school boys in neon orange ... back in high school had emailed me out of the blue and offered to catch ... different culture around sprinklers. At least most of us do -- the fenced

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021