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• 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 German language class, down a steep hill with a beautiful view of the ... train station, cross the Lahn river, and enter a building across the

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

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  Bloggers for bloggers. Until that point, a lot of bloggers never crossed ... redundant, apparently). When school starts back up it's like a whirlwind of ... ring circus, except instead of elephants,it's nerds; acrobats, calculus

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  Last week, the blogging committee - comprised, as always, of the ... . With an acceptance rate of just under 9.7%, it's actually more difficult ... difficulty of the decisions is no excuse for not making them. Decide we must

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  most of the tour guides, several live in my house and I appreciate seeing their helpful faces at the end of my information sessions. The time had come! You all have met Alina, one of our newest bloggers. Well, I first

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  I try to attend at least one guest speaker talk a week (many of them ... lot of this together. Okay, deep breath. Here we go. Remember the ... "shoot for the moon" in terms of faculty, and emailed Professor Eric Lander

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  Well, I spent my 4th of July in Plymouth with Adam's family and my ... dying of hunger) feta chicken, and our friend Mark '07 manned the grill ... actually do make some regular hot dogs now, but that's only because of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  wonderful and rewarding career, is not really a nine-to-five type of job ... days of work in one day. That is also the bad news... particularly since ... the duals portion of his competition, and would have won first in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  things about the GRE (in this order): you can take it any day of the week ... test, and all the math is high school math (actually, that's sort of bad, since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  About 6.5 years ago, I graduated with a Philosophy degree and a minor ... ’m going to explain and sprinkle some of my artworks throughout—here’s piece ... recap of what I did between graduating and becoming a full-time artist (in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  insane degree. Coffee was a part of my identity in,,, perhaps an almost ... CJ historian but for the history of myself throughout the years, and ... history book in the form of blogposts). And when I first started out

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  "Mankind has always had a yen to travel. Millions of years ago ... school year of studying. Luckily, MIT understands that its students ... in 34-401 (A room at MIT where a lot of EECS events take place) talking

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  : ------------------------------ Henderson explores many shapes of Shakespeare Book examines 'Shake ... September 13, 2006 The works of William Shakespeare have a timeless quality ... their adamantine purity despite the passage of time. As Diana Henderson

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  12 years of public school education could do for me. I started applying to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I ... I graduate. This is my promise. So similar to the list of parameters

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  in a fresh layer of panic, bolted outside in 40-degree wind chill, ran ... Bluntly put, this was the worst week of my life. Geez! you say. That ... a throw pillow*. Alright: Let's just say that the week of October 19

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  sidewalks of Cambridge. One of the Random Hall graduate residential assistants walked by, witnessed my torpedoing burst of undiluted energy, and crossed ... Today I sprinted down Massachusetts Avenue in a noontime spritz of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  fighter planes flying over at the end of "The Star-Spangled Banner!" And ... you a puppy. I awoke from uneasy dreams on the morning of July 4th at 5 ... ) informing me that a reclusive-cousin-of-a-friend-of-a-friend used to be a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  Of all the numerous documents bestowed upon prefrosh checking in for ... without the booklet as it contains, in addition to useful maps of campus and ... every hour of the weekend, causing even the most fervent Course 8

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  Last week, one of my friends, “Mike”, asked me if I had any Valentine ... ’s Valentine’s Day, and that restaurant has three dollar signs,” one of them said ... plausible deniability of “I thought this was just a friend hangout!” But that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  the other side of the columns are students waiting to cross the street ... side of campus, viewed from the courtyard outside Medical (first three ... .) Running that evening was surreal. It felt like we were in a tunnel of snow

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  I’ve gotten into the habit of keeping graveyards for my writing ... darlings, but with a little bit of [annotation note="they don’t call them ... , or another kind of art, can be really personal"]humanity added to it

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021