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• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  camera phone here at the library.) I sit in the same chair every day and try to look mysterious so that other people in the library will think I'm special. Perhaps this year I'll get crazy and occasionally sit at that

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  first in line to get our posters signed! With our loot tucked safely ... awkwardness, but still, to everyone’s chagrin, logically sound in a roundabout ... village to village in order to increase the diversity of its gene pool. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  pair of socks) but I came just in time to hear one of the Google ... out my resume to several other companies (which would result in several ... the twenty minutes or so prior to the first call. I was in my room

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  how to listen, to sit in someone’s joy and pain, and to navigate the ... changed me in ways that I hope will only grow.  Before I got to MIT, I was ... seriously in the professional world, I had to be literally serious and kind of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  go back to the student services office. “But then I would get stuck in ... renewal and other synonyms for “change” that I don't have time to look up in ... , of learning how to cook and work and clean and enjoy your life in a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  got home I brought some luggage in to delay the inevitable, or maybe I ... decision, ran downstairs to tell my parents I got in, ran back upstairs, ran back downstairs to tell them I got in to the other. The feeling was

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  (Wednesday, 12/6), but in the last fiveish days leading up to Wednesday it ... last.  In fact, I’m really just amazed that we were all awake to witness ... now: 30% chance of <0.05 in. of snow for 20 minutes] has popped up. A

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  career. You get to do research with some of the smartest people in the world, and if you're lucky, you get to publish something of your own ... different topics and latest in scientific research. I should go to more of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  in chromosome 5, leading to an extension of the circadian period from ... scientific studies. About 95% of the work people do in research never gets ... just "not to live in a cardboard box after graduation") would be to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  means by "magnitude." In astronomy, we use the word "magnitude" to ... to light for a deeper kind of sight, in my favorite passage of the book ... of our home planet in Book II and you'll see what I mean: "And fast by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  . Since my novel comes out in 2022, I’ll have to change the setting for that ... few hours before I had to get up to meet Drew. I find him and his ... back. I slide in across from him, next to a blond guy with limbs that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  time in four months, I'll get to see my family. I'm holding on to that ... make breakfast for the girls in the house before they went off to finals ... This is going to be an interesting week. For early action applicants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  approximately 1.28% of what was said in lecture, but it was reassuring to know ... "]bros[/annotation] wanting to broaden their horizons. While I've used a multimeter before in ... /hardware systems in the way this class just expected you to. The labs taught you how

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  love for a few square feet that I'll have to pack up in about six months ... ="105765" /] I'm not quite sure when it happened, but if I had to guess it was ... the time we said our goodbyes in May, The Double was already a space in

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  patience to watch the office in its entirety but was able to get through the ... - watch the first two episodes to get a sense of what each character is like ... . this process was very helpful in the sense that it allowed me to finish

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  evaluations for us to fill out about him. I suggested that we work in small ... that only gets seen by some poor undergrad grader. I was tempted to write ... this, I was really worried to get back my 8.02 pset. You'd think that if

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  them in the "Miscellaneous" category, and wondered if my posts ought to ... , pen, La Verde's bag, jacket, or copy of Mad in America to constitute ... later in the day. I considered turning to the reporter on my left and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  twenty bucks I’m not getting in.” “I’ll bet you twenty that you are ... just paid my sister dwarfed in comparison to what would be my tuition for ... When I was once a high school senior drowning in college applications

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Renewable Energy in Spain

  

  minor in Energy Studies MIT-Spain Program 2011 My project was aimed ... detection of inefficiencies, which is important in the manufacturing process ... system into a photoluminescence imaging system to analyze the benefits of

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  plays in Seattle, which made it interesting to come back to "The Second ... vocalists to get private lessons for free! I've never even auditioned because ... to students. You buy one (1) card for $10, and you get to go to most

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023