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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... first year, you don't pick a lab in grad school until you're ready. When I ... undergrad, except that I have less work to do, I live in an apartment rather

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  experience. I think in some ways I've been able to develop a healthier ... -long schedule, is like. I know other exchange students who were placed in housing ... -MIT Exchange (CME)! For background on the program, check out the CME website. CME

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  updates from us! April 3rd, 2020 Prospective students In our last update, I ... accommodating as we can under these conditions. In recent days, we have received ... As I wrote above in the section for admitted students, based on these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  On Sunday, I moved out of Senior Haus for the first time in two years ... at home ever since. I've been in my house for what I think is going on ... comfortable, is really not necessary for your bed. In fact, I fear that it may

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  up buying the spicy version because I prefer having a bit of a kick in ... , most of the times they were sold out in the store. I'm not sure where to ... Ok so I am very late jumping on the Trader Joe's bandwagon, but I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  , and you sat in envy. but as i listen to this song, and as my eye catches photos i have memories of but no part in, i no longer feel bitter ... jokingly believes that you do check in on me, seeing just how much i

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  I Am Not As Lame As I Appear I've just been feverishly at work on the new website...

  

  Really. I've just been feverishly at work on the new website because Mollie starts tomorrow and I needed to get things to a certain point so that she'll be able to do the work that I've hired her to do. So

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  in this post is kinda uncomfortable lol"]cj.[/annotation] i soon came ... that i liked. time passes. i finally met cj in person in frosh spring ... , when we had these things called "pods". i was in the same pod as alex and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  is cross section of my semester in screen shots. 1) I hit exactly $0 ... actually using up all the change in your wallet before you can accumulate any ... ordering the Indian food I have open in another tab. Peace out, cub scouts.

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  in an otherwise formal job, like taking a selfie before giving his ... as by volunteers in the audience. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a ... , according the ALS Association's website. Reif dedicated the event to Karolina

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  ’t like big class sizes and I did not have a great experience in [annotation ... it is an algorithms class, I would enjoy it more than 6.009.  In the ... midnight on Wednesdays so every other week, I had 4 problem sets due in a 24

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  much work they have to do. I guarantee you that one day will not go by in ... something therapeutic about complaining. So in keeping with MIT tradition I am ... should cower in awe appropriately. We'll start with course work. So I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  optimistic and cheerful. I always do 004 projects in the lab so that I can get ... that I'm capable and can do engineering things in interesting classes ... 12.5% of our total grade in the class, I was not so happy about it. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Art & Science in Paris

  

  This past summer I worked at Le Laboratoire, an experimental art-science space in Paris. I helped to curate an upcoming art exhibition ... allowed me to take a mental break from nuclear engineering in between

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  . It’s definitely a good thing that I’ve finished econ, so that I can ... about sleep schedule optimization. I learn that Jason believes in ... I convene and start lamenting our naive choice in major years ago. 9

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  live with it. In the meantime, all I can do is hold on to the people that ... can. In the moments where I am not hit by anxiety, I am trying my best ... playing in the background and all. Every time I tried writing this post, my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  ever changing. As I learn to believe in that with all of my heart, I ... based on the circumstances of the day, I find comfort in knowing that ... Heads up: I'm not sure if any of this makes actual sense. This is

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  can now see the summer as something whole and fully past. Back in May, I ... rituals, not routines. I spent the summer mostly in Cambridge, with trips ... in a good way. What I Actually Read Between the World and Me, Ta

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  say that my participation in this program about which I've told you a ... equation, not to mention slightly more German. I was awash in sleepiness ... interest in opera, I give up. As I emerged from the Kendall subway station

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  set in and I can feel a warm blanket of drowsiness wrap around my tired ... turning in the wrong direction. 12:06 PM – I realize that I typed the wrong ... butterfly behind the stag's ears.    12:52 AM – I am in charge of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017