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• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  and astronautics a thousand "internet years" ago, when those of us who ... place called a library to get information. It was, of course, uphill both ... Propulsion Lab (JPL) in Pasadena, California. JPL is the place that sends out

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  So this morning I went to lunch with three of my friends from high ... . We talked a lot mostly about what we've been doing outside of school ... webmaster, Odyssey of the Mind, marching band, writing awkward blog posts

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  decided to kind of throw most of my writing rules out the window and have ... of the parents and the girlfriend was often only suitable after a long period of dewy-eyed joy and the calls to the superior ones about the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  wrong but existing address. I’ll use fake e-mails for the sake of privacy ... -based classes (among others), whose projects span the course of several months ... and open-ended, which means that there’s a lot of groping walls in the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you missed it, here's an index of their entries: 50 Reflections by Ben Jones ... Years by Kim D. '09 Fake it 'til you make it by Laura N. '09 How To

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  . Sure enough... Eng holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from Rhode ... coolest person of all time. No, really. So, I'm MIT's biggest fan of reality ... be of age. Then I just need to find a partner. I need somebody who can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  lot of sense considering I’m in the middle of reading applications for ... was, me and my degrees, pouring coffee for the elderly and [annotation ... yelled to her friends, “HEY! This guy has a master’s degree and he

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  undergraduate degree in the subject of your choice. You don't have to be a biology ... 'd fill you guys in on some of the nuts and bolts of a life in science ... looks like in the sciences, but in reality most people are sort of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  I disappeared into the battlefield of the semester, not to be heard ... harder, driven by a lack of breaks and the persistence of pandemic ... than both of those already difficult semesters. It is the most difficult

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  As the final hours of my first semester at MIT come to a close, I ... meant to me. I have truly met some of the greatest and most incredible ... the majority of my days with them. It's an incredible feeling knowing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  ’s 48 degrees and I can’t feel my toes.) I’m not the only one – many of my ... Oh, the joys of being in college. Finally, we’re independent! We can ... . (Actually, I’d still get a full(ish) night of sleep every night even if I did

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  , because of the bend in the road, I hit it at about a 45 degree angle.   ... vehicle at a 45 degree relative to the forward motion of that vehicle, at ... As regular readers of this blog know I love to bike. It's my primary

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  fabled season of fall has arrived in all of its deciduous glory and is ... California for ten years now, but unlike other sun-loving transplants, I consider the brisk weather a welcome change. My impressions of fall, in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  Yesterday morning, I woke up half-dreaming of the scriptural nuisances of airport security, circa Holiday Season, post-2001 A.D. At 7 AM after a night of post-finals merrymaking (i.e, a plate of brussels sprouts

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Continuing our series Introducing the Class of 2013... Jonte '13 ... 2009 graduate of Franklin County High School, is one of 12 students ... of Technology (MIT) this fall, where he will major in civil or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  The Class of 2015 list of 101 things to do before you graduate has challenges of varying degrees--I can proudly say I've already seen a concert in ... --participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  . You'll probably like her better but I hope you like me, too. Most of the ... there in a valley between the mountains, moved to the outskirts of DC when ... essay. I was admitted Early Action and withdrew most of my pending

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  's been so well-run too. of course, it's a bit of "fake maths" in the sense ... content warning: mention of suicide. one I'm sick of all this, "How ... backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since ... opportunities is much smaller. The program lasts a relatively short amount of time ... company in Venice, California called Wevr (rhymes with Beaver). This company

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  Gillespie received an envelope from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Not just any envelope, but the fat one, with a letter of admission ... measure. He wanted to go to the Art Institute of Atlanta and study cooking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010