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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  , at any of the research institutions I'd been accepted to I asked a lot ... thinks, and feel out the atmosphere of a different, non-NRAO institution ... unexplored intersection of science research and public outreach. Before the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  ="Introductory Biology. Fulfills one of the General Institute Requirements that students ... robotics, which got buried down in my conscience by the stresses of adapting ... [annotation note="Fundamentals of Programming. Its new number is 6.101, but I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next administration's agenda ... institutions, governments, businesses, NGOs, and individuals are addressing the ... , and, worst of all, undermining each other in the quest to gain

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  'm doing research, the main part of my actual degree. To be honest, so far, I ... '."]Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science[/annotation]offers a 12-to-18 month Master’s of Engineering, only available to MIT EECS

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  want a masters degree in your subject pretty much by the end of sophomore ... taking three classes this term, and the grade in all of them is based ... schoolwork, I've had crazy amounts of free time recently. Not that I've really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  feeling pretty stressed and mentally out of it for a few weeks so I’m hoping ... trips to Denmark and the UK, when she encountered lots of people who made ... as I imagined for water a few degrees off freezing. We stay in the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  .) (Or, actually, since last week, when a friend of mine from Tufts said I ... more productive. For those of you who can't conceive of inventing time travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  walked. Twenty minutes to the left of the station in the eighty-degree ... Japanese suburbs. Combine all that with my winning sense of direction and you've got a very lost American kid somewhere west of Central Tokyo. It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  regard to our engagement. If you are a person who likes this sort of thing ... 've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for ... Museum of Science today to check out the reception site. Hanging in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  "Welcome to New York" as the musical version of a peppermint latte. It was ... to name the feeling of cool tenderness on my tongue, my entire mouth aware of itself. Maybe New York was like that too, full of feelings I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  . Adam Riess, MIT Class of 1992, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2011 Riess ... Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt for "the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae."  He is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  comfortable in my understanding of the inner workings of the Institute. It's not ... a handful of old acquaintances, one of my problem solving partners from 8.02 (electricity and magnetism), a couple of people from the best 2

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  all of my colleagues in Admissions and across MIT have those people ... time for everyone; I've been at the verge of tears over this awful, awful situation. The feeling of anguish and helplessness can be overwhelming. Life

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  When you think of people at MIT, maybe you think of Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, or perhaps you think of President Susan Hockfield. You probably think of the Nobel winners, such as Prof. Wolfgang

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  technology, the aspect of sustainability and upcycling – all of these things on ... . All of the [annotation note="we use the word spread to refer to one coherent project, usually taking up 5-10 pages of the magazine

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  kind of means a lot to me. Not necessarily the literal institution; the ... College is generally held to be the last enchanted shore of youth. My ... . I haven't revisited these blogs in some time; the public ramblings of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  defrosting, bits of ice forced into my intestines (by Cambridge’s spooky ... up something that wasn’t a p-set or a study paper, a consequence of the past three weeks sapping so much time. The barrage of classes, problem

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... science and technology that shines in your everyday life.  Or you could be ... .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

   side of MIT, and especially love their nexus, MIT's Center for Civic Media ... sort of a broad overview of media studies at the graduate level. Anyway ... campus as a CMS alumna, MIT lecturer, and cofounder of what might be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  , here, and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you are ... latest in this series, from Nishanth, who wrote me last night with one of the most successful instances of blog-based manifesting I've ever seen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021