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• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  reason (*cough* global warming *cough*), it was 54F (12C) and sunny. I got ... minutes, and headed out to Boston for some happy sunny day shopping. (Key ... Downtown Crossing shopping district, then wandered through Boston Common and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... ). Let us know when you've decided, and for sure let us know by May 3. An ... graduate of MIT who majored in Biology and Brain & Cognitive Sciences. Mollie

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  already--3,974,400 seconds--and here I am, back in the States, ready to ... frosh who realized that holy crap, summer was coming and I didn't have ... name tag that blatantly announced my inexperience and non-Course-6-ness

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much you take advantage of what MIT has to offer, there are going to be ... better or would have liked but never got a chance to meet, and more. The

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  Here Comes a Thought from Steven Universe Peace and Love from Steven ... , and sympathized with their struggles. Their experiences, although adding ... complex, diverse, flawed, and unique depiction of MIT, an MIT we saw

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  , thought, and effort that now has to be put into thinking about what is that ... choose from to do a research project on. I scrolled up and down the list ... /science related in an English class, so I took it and hit the ground running. As I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  female students and administrators from Ivy League schools such as Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, and Princeton. Ironically, every girl that she speaks with aspires to be a lawyer and almost all plan to stop

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  and soak in all that each and every single moment has to offer. Consider ... . Swimming pools and ice cream sundaes.  Long road trips to new places ... that momentarily suspends you between the days that were and the days

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

   I survived my first semester at MIT, and it was hella dope. I can ... you guys is the two months of illness and a phat bundle of electric ... vacation and doing the best I can with a camera, markers, and printer paper

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  ] The University of New Hampshire ROTC program recently organized a MOUT ... were holding five hostages in an abandoned prison, and they were to ... decade ago. And when I played back then, it was an unorganized free

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  reading your comments on Stu's post and was going to write back but then realized this might be better, and I'd just like to say - it's been ... , the application process in general, and moving forward. All of your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  from tradional engineering companies like Ford and Raytheon to service organizations like the Peace Corps and Teach For America. Here's a smapling of ... Solutions & Technologies US Patent and Trademark Office Google Los

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  state of thinking too much, and I'm scared if I think too much, I ... doing okay? How are you feeling? What's your emotional state? I find the doting quite flattering, to be honest, and it's been very sweet to see how

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  -fried broccoli flower, and the crunchiness of autumn tingles with the sound of ... moment's breath to stop and listen in the 10 minutes between classes, and ... , Formerly a Key but Now My Math Grade”, “Solid State Chemistry of Fractures

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  state is not just sand and cacti. Yes, Texas has ample desert landscape ... I step off my plane, and immediately spot this amusing sign adorned with cowboy hats:   I step outside and breathe in the toasty

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  of marching bands and crowded cheering. A large marshmallowy Boeing ... seems to be some sort of parade or festival every other week. And they ... cannon blast and the faint smell of gunpowder. Because in Seattle, these

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  forehead and trying not to cringe from the terrible aftertaste of the iced tea we both ordered. It was 95 degrees and we were both slowly fusing ... blogs and application info, and had a working knowledge of all the course

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  experience and a Master's degree. (Me and Kat '09 at a Company Picnic) I ... , Mankind would be sitting around the cave, eating raw mastodon parts, and he'd say, "Marge, I have a yen to travel." And Marge would agree instantly

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

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  by obsessive behavior and the employment of extremely dangerous or ... lab, and approximately 6 hours of homework and lab-prep.) We spend the ... of lab experience: some have never even held a pipette, and others are

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  can be seen glancing around. The same image is shown on a 10’ black-and ... parents must”ve had a heckuva sense of humor. Arthur. (shakes his head and ... even pants - but glasses and an innate moral compass to discern between

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006