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• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  new job in a few weeks. I took the offer. I told some teammates. I told ... )[/caption] So, in spite of it all, we’re still alive, and we're still writing ... changed. CJ lives in New York, where they work for Stainless, a company that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  highest out of all my offers, plus it was in the Cambridge, MA area so I ... 't care that much about compensation. Of course, most people are not in a ... mean is, if I weigh compensation as a heavy factor in choosing what to do

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  semester, is designed to offer freshman community and expose them to new ... ! The course has asynchronous materials in addition to the synchronous 1 ... of cook-alongs. One week, Dr. Dagmar Jaegar, a Lecturer in German

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  year in Burton Conner, as I was still settling in and still used to ... now... In any case, it's easy to get lost in the details of MIT as a freshman-- How are you doing in your intro classes? How much sleep are you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  the Court rules in a way that constrains how universities may compose ... [annotation note='For example, in his landmark study of the University of ... -based financial aid programs in the country...the ⌈University of California system

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  [annotation note="not sure because the midwest isn't even really in the middle ... blogger Alan) was interested in having the team write a post about the ... that happened in these stories is based on real people and events, so

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  wasn't worth my time to apply to this university, but rather to emphasize how devastated I was by my rejection."] university's honors college.[/annotation] The day after I turned in that application, Saturday, December 14, 2019

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  Boston/MIT-area parties. At Newtonville Books in Newton (a Green Line trip ... Leigh Cook's Josie in the Josie & The Pussycats movie, or as the lead ... either -- two references to 10 Things I Hate About You in less than a year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  significant as coming up with the idea of using a spoon to eat soup. Back in ... in the spectra of these compounds which would allow organic chemists to ... sophomore year in 1935. Luckily for the history of organic chemistry, he was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  the father of the inflationary theory of the universe - and figured, in ... random proctor and explained the situation; he suggested that I was in the wrong building, which irked me (in the wrong building for my first final

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  In my last entry, way back in June 2013, I painstakingly bid good-bye to life at MIT and in particular, to the MIT blogs (direct quote: “Farewell, MIT blogosphere”). But I’m back!! Just in time to join other

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Guest Post] A Day in the Life of a Clown College Student by Joy X. Clown College ‘29

  

  year, I received a letter in my mailbox that would change my life forever ... the exact opportunity I was looking for. In my senior year of high ... CPW where I will actually be a juggling homeless person in The Guy Who

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  anomalous and supernatural objects and keep them hidden. In-universe, the ... Writing Autobiography. We read a lot of things in that class, and here are ... again. Definitely in the top three of things I’ve read all semester

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  address what every college and university has articulated in its mission: to ... In 1966, B. Alden Thresher, an economist and the first ever Director ... Stu, and on many other people in our office too. The book has been out

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  Patterns is the name of the curriculum that is being taught in all of these ... -Shapley   The rest of the week was dedicated to more offline exercises in the morning, and coding exercises in the afternoon. There definitely

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  --become the center of the universe." now i am sitting in the grass outside ... departments, from the terrascope program, from mit libraries, students in engineering and in sloan business school, and a visiting student from germany

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  can be doing in the meantime: Making a list, spreadsheet, or Google ... universities to which you'll be applying (including the financial aid ... helps in the process. Talking with your guidance counselor. We will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  'Belle and Sebastian University.' I was like, 'Belle and Sebastian! Awesome ... about your future. Then write a song about it. Preferably in the style of ... people who lists all the colleges they got into in their AIM profile. (As

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  from a shallow area of water in the Cape Cod area. (public reminder to ... 't learn in 8.02 was how 3D glasses worked, so I decided to Google it. HowStuffWorks.com had a pretty good explanation. 3-D Viewing In a movie theater, the

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  night, I took a Zipcar up to a college fair in New Hampshire. I'd say the ... year program resulting in a Bachelor of Science (BS) or a Bachelor of Science in Art & Design (BSAD). Approximately 85% of MIT architecture

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005