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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  out of practice with my Japanese for a while, the Japanese books get ... really disadvantaged me for college quiz bowl, which is a million times ... when I came across a list titled "Things I would do if I had more time

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  This semester has definitely been a rough one, especially around this time of the year.  Flags for classes are being handed out for those of us ... cautioned off from the public due to a battle scene between the different

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  Okay, hold up. I have a really good excuse for not blogging in ages. Two excuses, actually. Yes, I took my last final over a week ago, and ... and statistics for a while, we got to the part we’d been waiting for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  for a few hours or days. I also became an Educational Counselor and interviewed students every fall for over a dozen years. I still felt connected ... also knew the every other floor rule for finding a restroom in an obscure

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  's everybody going to be doing for the next few months? Here's a small sampling ... Science) UROP for a month-ish Michelle Nason '11 -- Going back home to ... people, now they're all going away for 3, that's a significant lack of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  for them, or to do a summer internship. The companies span the spectrum ... organizations like the Peace Corps and Teach For America. Here's a smapling of ... opportunities. For our seniors, it will be nice for many of them to have a job

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  is a possibly-staged photograph of me while I'm studying for my finals ... writes a blog (!) for the admissions office Debbie '06 spent the first half ... restaurant, and walked around the mall for a bit. 20 minutes later, Debbie

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  apologize for that in advance. --- Paul joined a fraternity, and now lives ... 't mean you're "paying for friends," nor does not getting a bid during Rush ... something that you get just because you show up to all the Rush events for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  . Hopefully some of these help take your mind off of college, even if just for a ... makes opening a new website tab for homework so much more enjoyable ... matter the outcome, I wrote a thank-you card for someone in my life. It

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  also petitioned for some extras. The next day, I got a personal email from a Harvard professor: “you signed up for an education seminar; here’s a logistical thing to do before you start.” I was so excited for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  go back to sleep. It had been a late night of work for both of us the ... Office)  where you can apply to be interviewed for a lot of different ... essay for a Russian class she's taking at Harvard. And I have to get to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  really cool and there is a special place in my heart for CubeSats because I ... -and-coming celebrities; for example, today I met Planet Labs, a start-up in San Francisco ... Picture for me, if you will, all your favorite celebrities. These are

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  .03 happens to be a requirement for both of those options, so hopefully it ... , which is everything I could ask for from a class this semester. 6 ... a required class for my major, so I’m going to do my best and hope for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  Place I have a job! At Formlabs! I play with liquid photopolymers for ... castle I plan on expanding. I want to buy her a crown. Making Time for ... ; -----------------------------------------   Well, that's mostly it right now, besides actively looking for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  lived in East Campus G212 for half a semester--just barely two months ... substitute for the sensation of interior space, but I grabbed a few anyway ... shape myself into a better person. For now--one day at a time. Eat three

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  of toxic relationship with linguistics. For example, I did a UROP in ... twice a week for an hour in Dupont. If you know me in real life, you know ... prepared for whiplash as I blog about Ella in a corporate setting for summer

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  managed to get one percent higher than what I needed to get an A for the ... discovered a country during IAP, I discovered that I could never wake up for 10 ... . Discovery is finding out that I needed to draft a study plan for my courses at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap ... for many great reasons. For example, one of my favorite students spent a ... : Gap years need not be a luxury for the rich. Some students use them to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  to get a little more bang for your MIT buck, based on things that I ... upperclassman about reuse (a place for MIT people to give away things they no ... and Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5 would make for a good mashup!" Or say

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I have a lot of work to do (as has been the case for, quite honestly, the ... eyes, and allow my feet to trace a well-worn path that gets me from where

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012