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• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  for middle and high school. I have not been in a public school in almost a decade. I feel like I have been sent to Mars. For one, people at my ... and a little less confident as a result. Thankfully for me, both

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  I've officially been on my gap year for a week! To begin my gap year ... take a gap year, how the first week went, and what my plans are for the ... would have made the last few months a lot better for me. More specifically

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  , my family sat down around the kitchen table for a discussion. My dad ... when I got here, I began looking for a job. One of the cheerleaders ... Center) in building 16 for an interview. I worked at the LLARC 8 hours a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  Saturday afternoon, but it was perfect for a warm cup of almond-coconut hot ... STOP: Pearl Art. I needed to pick up some stuff for a Valentine's Day ... at South Station on Friday night South Station is a transportation hub

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  on campus. I was taking 18.02a and 8.01L. I was cooking for myself and ... stumbled upon an entry for a Comparative Media Studies/Writing UROP that looked like a perfect match for my obsessive fangirl brain: [annotation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Events

  There is such a thing as a free event Collegefest is going on this weekend, go get yourself some free junk!

  

  with a few friends to the Collegefest in Hynes Convention Center (it's next to the Prudential Center.) Admission is free if you have a Student Advantage Card and $10 if you don't. Anyway, if you're interested in getting a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  . Originally I had planned to just take one class a semester for a really long time while continuing to work in the office. But for a variety of reasons ... , even if only for a year. In the three years I have worked in this office

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  argument about what the proper name is for a soft drink. Most people said ... generic name for soft drinks. If you go to a restaurant and say "Could I ... a volunteer for the mountain biking event. A few months later, I got a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  the academics that he doesn”t feel much affinity for otherwise. It was a ... smart enough to get into MIT for their college years? I've always been a ... first heard about a learning community option for a student”s freshman

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  MIT admissions crew together for a dinner reservation at Bern ... business. Here's a plug for Lloyd Thacker's Educational Conservancy. He ... except for a minor technology issue (they forgot our projector which made

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  EDIT: this post is back bois I didn't know Google had a shareable mapping service and used a terrible one instead so I redid the map with Google Last year during freshman fall, I made a couple of guides to random

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  outreach programs include BoSTEM (a summer STEM program for underrepresented minorities), dynaMIT (a summer STEM program for low-income students), and ... commitment] 40 hours (5 hours on Saturday, for 8 weeks)[tasks] Scratch is a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  Mediterranean for a birthday lunch at Vlora, right over in Copley Square. As it ... me a new appreciation for it.) (Well, I always sort of knew that, but ... , but I did get pretty involved with preparing a dressing for a Waldorf

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  met with the TA’s and Student Support Services and I finally asked for a ... technical class was 3.014, which is a CI-M.  CI-M stands for Communication ... away from 4-hour lab blocks for a month or two. Also, I got an A in the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  good for snow and a touchscreen pair that I wear the most. You’d be ... and I kid you not, it took a solid 90 minutes for my legs to thaw ... for. People invest in a variety of different boots. In addition to the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  '07) to write a guest blog entry. It might not make for the best guest ... details on what it's like living next to Sam Maurer for a summer, as told by ... grades behind, for a 100% college graduation rate. So for four hours, four

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  A week ago, Professor Junot Diaz of the MIT Department of Writing ... . Diaz has been doing many interviews since he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but an appearance on Colbert is always... interesting. For those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  I just returned from a retreat for my sorority, Alpha Chi Omega. We spent the past 24 hours at the Endicott House , an MIT owned mansion in a Boston suburb used for conferences. It was amazing to hang out with my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Evens & Ends Notes on CPW, Veronica Mars, and more.

  

  . For one thing, the weekend is not planned out for you, it's more of a ... It's been another late night at work, but I wanted to at least post a few odds & ends... CPW update: for everyone who has registered

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  other places to drop some dough for a bite to eat. I'll leave the fun of ... , I was fixing for a crepe late last week and strolled in to Sebastians ... walked up to the counter and asked for a banana and Nutella crepe, and one

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012