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• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  about your living situation in spring, and though we can't offer you ... In the past few weeks, I've been pretty busy with [annotation note ... happens in the week first-years get to happens"]REX.[/annotation]Then, frosh

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  . The following day, I got an email with an offer for a spot in the ... I'm studying abroad next semester at ETH Zurich in Switzerland! (Or ... friends and I had considered taking part in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions office. My job, among ... well in your quest to learn more about MIT. [read more] Ben's First Sentimental Post: December 16, 2004 In what would become his trademark, this is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  that in less than 24 hours you'll be in New York and playing with toys ... the two o'clock bus and settled in for the ride. The Chinatown bus has ... issues. It was hard to sleep on (bumpy) but we got some naps in. When the

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  's status as one of the oldest colonies, definitely more than could fit in a ... not fw blithely gallivanting in PR without educating yourself and being ... reserved tickets for rainforest entry a month in advance (they sell out fast

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  -MIT Institute that promotes partnership happenings between the two universities ... late but it was great to see other MIT students again. Since we live in ... -togethers. I see the other two MIT students in Course 1 (civil engineering

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  French class, our "final" consisting of a one-page composition in the past ... immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years ... be marooned in the desert. Sure, I arrived on campus, picked up my new

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  Giant celebrations in Boston/Cambridge last night for the Red Sox' big comeback victory against the Yankees in the American League ... Chronic Not the same few colleges: The University of California at Santa

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC ... up in Boston. It’s great to come back to Boston, especially a smart ... me: I joined Pixar in 2009. Like I said I’m from Chelmsford; I went to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• 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 / Best from staff

  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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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