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• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  -King's Programme at the University of Cambridge, taking courses in "The Behavioural ... trying new things like paragliding or kayaking! What's one of your goals ... More flavors of an MIT student summer. *    *    * Xiaoyue X. '15

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  I’m currently in the exotic land of England. Over a week ago, I flew into Heathrow Airport on a dragon, and then I rode with a group of ... where students teach STEM and entrepreneurship at high schools in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  Gilberte Furstenberg (teacher of French III, a class we're both taking). The homework I'm doing right now is part of a unit called Cultura, where we correspond with university students learning English at l'Ecole Polytechnique

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  research at a tiny university on the outskirts of Mexico City, which was a ... impression is that at least a good majority of students who apply to MISTI do ... interning at was closed for part of the summer, meaning I would have to come

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  reminder of the dorm-wide pumpkin carving study break this Wednesday at 8 ... "Head of the Charles". Activities line the route. There is a concert at ... charities: the Childrens Hospital of New Orleans and a high school in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  first time now[/annotation] because of the new BBC/HBO television ... Longtime readers may recall that I am a big fan of the His Dark ... thinking about the branching paths we choose to take (or not), or how our new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  our understanding of the universe.  One of those winners is an MIT professor, and the inventor of The Inflationary Theory Of Cosmology, which is ... history of the universe, and what can cosmology tell us about the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston ... , I’ve been working on my Masters of Architecture down the river at ... at MIT. I can’t help the part of me that, whether on a walk with

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the Facebook era." Let me share with you an anecdotal history of blogging, what I ... other recent alums, some of whom I did not know at MIT. We have a semi

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  my parents, the only form of exercise that really occurs at my home. I ... . By the end of the training regime, I was running 4 miles at the ... improved visibly. I could see it in my heart rate at various parts of the run

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  Some of you may look at my last post and wonder, "what's happened to ... conference and of course, answering lots and lots of questions. At the MIT ... other great universities, and I’m very proud to be a part of that legacy.

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  (Ariel S. ‘18 at University of Michigan) at an external team that was not ... that there are fewer women. But the interesting effect of being at MIT is ... overall. Only 16% of US employers offer paid parental leave of any kind, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide any academic or athletic scholarships?

  MIT provides financial aid on the basis of financial need only. We don't offer money based on any measure of merit—academic, athletic ... the Institute as an MIT Scholarship, even though we offer it based
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  -hour bus ride to New York, we briefly eat dinner at a Chick-fil-A. I have ... , I watch the transit of Mercury. Or at least, attempt to watch ... couple of volunteers from HMMT head to eat dinner at PJ’s Pancake House. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  took 6.S978 to try my hand at the intersection of law and technology ... the video conferencing setup, with two of us at MIT, two of us at ... important?[/caption] Hello, hello! I finally have WiFi (most of the time), a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  glimpses of full recovery. Eating New York style pizza in Manhattan without ... , like how losing a number of family members and friends at a young age ... taking 3 math courses at once, in addition to all of the normal 8th grade

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my ... us out of the country, setting up bank accounts, trying to register new ... , second floor of Building 37. At the end of that day’s astrophysics

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  stressful experience of my whole time at MIT. It turns out that there's more ... . She's been doing interviews for faculty positions at all kinds of places ... the NYC biosciences grad programs"]in New York.[/annotation] I applied

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  teenagers felt like one of my biggest achievements at MIT. Because finally, I ... Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia ... Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  Classes start tomorrow! today! I started writing this at 11:55PM and ... of time. I've also grown an "idgaf if you think I'm stupid, I'm just ... improved my state of mind. And honestly, there isn't a single class that I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024