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• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  for a brief moment over the summer i think i truly believed that i ... actually pretty cool and felt like a smaller seattle for the weekend i was there. being in new york city for a week before school was a slap in the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  did fine more or less…We even flew to Texas for a spring break ... bake me a cookie for every time I work on strengthening my shins. I love ... Freshman fall I decided to join a sport. I had never played sports in

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  A few weeks ago, I organized a 140+ person barbecue for the many ... my friends and I sat in our lounge for hours listening to a '71 alum go ... of 1968. East Campus has a lot of history, and my floor Tetazoo is no

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  wrote a business plan for a hypothetical startup called “Slate Design and ... begin to assemble a design portfolio for use in job ... least for me). I’ll be spending my IAP playing ice hockey for the MIT

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  without incidence. For the summer I learned to use Octave. Then I finish a ... for making 14 pancakes instead of 4. But it was a beautiful day and ... world a better place for our children.

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  . For example, he got his HST UROP by taking a class in IAP 2005 called ... a job. He says, "at MIT, it's good to always be on the lookout for ... Speaking from experience, having a UROP is a big time and emotional

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  for me. A marathon has 26 miles. Half a year has 26 weeks. Coincidence ... salesman asked me if he could help. He had me walk barefoot for about a ... obviously not prepared for this. This was on Boylston, which is a pretty busy

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  sandbath preheaters and ooh free bagels!" so I shirked responsibility for a ... meeting Bruce Campbell, but for some reason I still feel a little ... So I know the entire world has been waiting anxiously for the release

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  emailing lists for official announcements and such, have a "talk list", or ... anybody cared to memorize maybe more than a 100 of e? 3. the formulas for ... First, a couple of questions answered. Vidal Carlos Garza asked

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  I personally find the former to have a better user interface (for my ... want to get a UROP for the spring? Should I take another technical class ... 11 movies: Inside Man - a favorite of mine that I re-watched just for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  for a concert I was told started at 7:00 PM. I strapped on my skates ... , Snively 0. I started looking for a place to stash my skates but there wasn ... fence for another two hours and fifteen minutes, a really long time. I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  'd been getting a lot of questions lately. Lo and behold, while looking for ... MIT account (go sign up for a myMIT account right now) including a very ... international students.   Each time we write a blog entry we have to pick a

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  myself, by myself, and with myself: going for a walk, decluttering my ... sprinting from class to club to friend to event and just exist for a while. MIT is a very exciting place. For most of the things you'll be

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  completely redesign our website (as well as the website for SFS). It will be a ... philosophy is. At a high level, the strategy is the same we've had for at this ... of registering for an event), they can be design (i.e. a notably

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  the list, though, I do have a few quick things to say. For starters, I ... . Take it from me: for any school, simply being on campus is a great way to ... suggested that I should write a book on college applications. Although I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  apartment for 3.5 years, after moving 5 times in a single year. I won a big ... , I was funded to work on data validation for TROPICS, a weather ... for BeaverCube, a student-built magnetically actuated satellite. I also

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  This girl is tired. Verrryyyyyyy tired. I had a lot of ideas for what I wanted to post this weekend. A month into my time at MIT I can ... my hall’s kitchen at five AM this morning, trying to study for a test I

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  admissions selection process. During that process, we notice a lot of interesting things - for example, spelling errors. [See also: Matt's blog entry ... big deal; we're not sticklers for that type of stuff (and hey, nobody

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  just a mess for me to get back to the job from lunch. Eventually, I made ... to lure them closer so that I could hop on and take one for a ride ... Once upon a time, in a land far far away (called New Jersey), a young

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  became a tradition. Every equation sheet I've ever written for an exam at ... message on my palm at least twice a day for 5 or 6 straight days. And ... Remember that epic pset I told you about? Well, a few days after that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008