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• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  Orientation, getting lost on the way to Baker House, exploring Greek life during ... at MIT. My first reaction was, to be perfectly honest, shock. How ... goodbye to my parents. I remember my first days here: building robots for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  recommendation gets to MIT before anything else?" I'd like to answer all questions ... Recently, I've been getting a lot of questions like, "Can I do my ... parallel. That is to say, order doesn't matter. (All of this assumes you have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  It's been a while! I fully apologize for not writing since getting to ... to blog. I moved to Burton-Conner this year, which, much like East Campus, has very different floor cultures, so I'm very happy to say that I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  related to what I'm writing about. That particular one comes from Gilbert K. Chesterton. In any case, the entire point of that little tangent was to get on ... I would have a problem if Snively managed to get more posts up than me

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? After failing to acquire MIT no less than 3 times in ... . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is ... . Unlike most colleges, we get President's day off despite the fact that it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  covered that. So let's get to the meat of the matter (or for you vegans out ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... penalty of law and all that stuff concerning your right to privacy, I am

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  get to eat dinner with former MIT students who now work at companies where you want to work SWE (Society of Women Engineers) Banquet -- you get ... In addition to being Libraries Week and MISTI (MIT International

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  she'll be able to hear from us before it gets to the picket line point ... morning I had the incredible opportunity to attend the announcement and ... to me late yesterday afternoon: "what are you doing between 10-11AM

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  Career Path to Motherhood." The author, Louise Story, speaks with several ... she speaks with aspires to be a lawyer and almost all plan to stop ... their kids start going to school. Many of them believe that a woman must

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  and guidance, I was afraid of being seen as incompetent; unable to get ... , most students who do UROPs do not get to publish their results either ... output.) All this to say that getting a publication out of a UROP

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  . After months of scheming and plotting how to get the words -- lodged ... else to do. I felt so desperate to get the words out, yet so gut-wrenchingly terrified. I needed to get closer to the words so they’d get out of my damn

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  everywhere. Many of these are "early returns"—desperate to get on campus ... freshmen get to explore the dorms, meet the upperclassmen and decide where ... (since last year.) All of the furniture has been moved to the edges of the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  valuable way to learn relevant skills for your field while getting rich at a ... physics major who accidentally took enough theoretical math classes to get a ... Today I neglected to bring a jacket to class. As the afternoon waned

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  . Froshies get taken around to all of MIT's fraternities (there's 27 of them ... - includes the traditional free lobster and steak dinners) and - if you get to ... also maintains blogs on MIT Admissions!). But most of all, we get to work

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  , I finally receive it in the mail! Because I want to get these boards ... , getting some of the components soldered, and shipping total to about $40 ... fan of inhaling carcinogens, I eventually get the hot plate method to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  able to get ready for the screening. During this screening, we had free ... beginning of the semester. We knew for sure it was something we wanted to ... agency to see if we could arrange something, but as this process was going

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  grants of between $50 and $250 to pods and virtual groups for art supplies. The intention was to support "shared art experiences for learning ... suggested that we apply. I didn't really know what supplies to apply for at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  abroad, and it's been refreshing to not have to rely on my broken A1.2 Schwiizerdütsch to get around on a daily basis. Random things I've dearly missed ... , I've been settling in to my summer studio apartment, interning the 9

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  embarked on a journey to warmer, sunnier lands down south. Two weeks before ... Amsterdam, to an even colder city up north. I guess I'll count that as part of my holidays too?       To kick off the spring

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  your EC now, because you might get to have an EC plus a bonus fractional ... one more to bring you. She doesn’t actually have a name, and she ... .0. When I got engaged to her dad in Killian Court the summer after senior

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017