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• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  matriculate as a full student for a year at Cambridge University in Cambridge ... , being at an academic institution with over 800 years of tradition gives ... ) completely into their new university. From what I've seen, this is an unique

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  probably because the excitement of being at a new place never got replaced with the overwhelming realization of being at that new place before that of leaving the new place. after all, i had only been away from home for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  6 from A Musical Offering. Now, since I kind of suck at piano, I'm one ... you'll go to an information session at an ivy league university, or ... arts or history or any of that lame-o stuff. Well, today I woke up at 8

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  back home to New York. I took my last final exam, for [annotation note ... syndrome, for the whole world to see, while on a train to New York"]taking a ... hour of my [annotation note="21G.325, New Culture of Gender: Queer France

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  department faculty. I also met a lot of new people from all over the area ... way to meet new people and get some fun memories out of your time here ... production of Man of La Mancha and I got seated right behind the sound board

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  and then left a UROP, I worked all summer, I won a medal at Head of the ... did it. My grades aren't in yet, but I think I did it. At the start of ... rivers will carry me there, and I’m sort of stalled at the confluence of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  sorts of other things, and it was really enjoyable talking to him. At the ... the intern orientation at the beginning of the summer because it was ... projects. And here I am on a plane. I haven’t been back to New York since

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  , sponsoring companies offering prizes for use of their APIs, and copious amounts ... time. The last day of was particularly hectic. The conference ended at 6 ... future of their industries. Sadly, Disrupt fell on the same weekend as MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  until, at the end, one of the founders asked me how much compensation I ... Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT full-time during fall 2020, since I knew I wouldn't get that much out of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  years. Adds Lee Stetson, dean of admissions at the University of ... into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost any reason as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  opening of the new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex at MIT: On Friday, MIT plans to dedicate what it bills as the largest collection of ... computer science department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  gigantic tub of ice cream that you can get at Ben and Jerry's, an ice cream ... professor of Psychology at the other Cambridge school. A lot of events in ... success. You can go to a community college and still end up at the top of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  around, but mostly useless. At the beginning of the year, MIT offers ... '13ers for the ceaseless rounds of free food that will be slung at them ... not universally feasible on campus. In four of the twelve dorms

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  choose your own classes? that was entirely new to me. the whole concept of ... zero. once again you can determine how busy i am by the rate of my ... whatever time i have left, because it can just take an arbitrary amount of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  I realize that the title for this post could be the title of a hymn ... to watch the progression of the emotional state of MIT students. The year starts with 1,100 studious new freshmen who are ready to experience

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  questions and comments everyone had. One of my co-workers, Robin, offered an ... tattoo. Christina finds the corpse of a jellyfish and we throw it at each ... The day in question is Thursday, one day before the end of my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  weekend in the White Mountains. The PE course offering at MIT is incredibly ... operate a Tech Dinghy, which is the most basic type of sailboats at MIT. In ... your Swim Test offered in the beginning of the year, and it basically

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  first discovered at MIT. Both of them were recieved better than my first ... exclamations... so, if you look at a phrase and say "oh dear," you're out of luck ... discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  at the forces affecting the development of cities around the world. If accepted, I will be travelling with a group of about 30 students to Detroit ... . At the beginning of my sophomore year, however, I decided I did want to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  the first part of his hour discussing the 5 percent of the universe we ... matter" like stars and galaxies. The other 95 percent of the universe is a ... remember at this time of the year. No matter how things turn out for you when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005