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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  majoring in CMS and looking to get a job in the gaming industry next year ... ordinary that I often forget all about them before I get the chance to ... . (Free admission! If you're ever looking for something to do in San Fran

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... there was in the responsive people gave, even if they didn't intend to do ... the fact that it was going to get erased eventually. Really shows how

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  I wanted to have a bike for when I came to campus in the fall. I didn ... in my freshman seminar that I wanted to build a steel table. It took ... (referenced to the floor). Woot! Anyway, here it is; the picture was taken in a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... 2028. Getting to “meet” so many capable, compassionate students through ... comments on this blog post to concentrate conversation in the open threads

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  arbitrary order and still confuse me from time to time. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate - 25% complete. Turns out that you can in fact get PE ... absolutely sure that I had a snowball’s chance in hell of getting the position

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  adjusting to my new schedule and new classes (also more on that in a later ... day off! Last year I went to the fair in between my morning and ... up in the Z Center. Here's a throwback to last year's career fair

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  should feel lucky that we even get to bake apples anymore." But I didn ... of six people working together to play this Ricercare tomorrow in 21M ... . Heck, the only time I even spent in lab today was when I snuck over to my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  two weeks of class at mit doesn't mean you get to catch up on the stuff ... it done in time, but that left me no time to give a good go at 6.006. i ... need something to snap me out of this stupor. --- working in boston

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  back. Now I'm sitting in my room, typing, getting to read a little bit ... ! I'm scared to sit in this house just because I know what's been in ... of: Back to MIT I headed, stopping in Lobby Seven so I could point

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  alone in my room, listening to the air-conditioner buzz, my body ... brewing through the very air pockets of MIT, and I was able to breathe it in ... get used to. Eventually, I made the decision to attend MIT—how could I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  arrived in New Haven about 9:10. Three taxis took us to the Courtyard ... in physics party pad. We used all this space to watch TV vigorously and ... interdisciplinary area of BioPhysics and why you should not to enter grad school in an

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  lecture on fan studies. And who should walk in to deliver the lecture but ... convention to be held in Florida in June. What do you do at MIT? Like I said ... , to be Henry's student in the Comparative Media Studies program. And

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  (including those admitted or deferred in Early Action), and is to be completed ... , since you only get to submit this form ONCE, this causes problems. So what we really want is to get the MYR as soon as possible when your grades

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  decisions. We are just people who once went to MIT (maybe in a time when it was easier to get into MIT than it is now) and have insights into the ... 't be summed up on a few sheets of paper. And I get to meet lots of young

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  being in a completely new city. Maybe it was getting to know people from ... you go through adds to your being in some way or form. You essentially ... ’t trace back to the specific moment that I fell in love with science fair

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  Computer Science), with a heavy interest in biology.  I had intended to get a ... was paid to launch bottle rockets in Killian Court :D  Our first order of business was actually taking a retreat to a glorious little cabin in

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  three kinds of classes that I'm supposed to go to per week. In lectures ... to do. I have lecture twice a week. In recitations, a non-tenured faculty member or lecturer gets up in front of a group of about 15-20 of us

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  getting used to, four years on the job. For every publication I design that gets sent to press and mailed to thousands of prospective students, there ... standards for Campus Preview Weekend, set to be unveiled in April 2018. The

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  to cancel or postpone the elaborate shindig in Killian Court (check out ... best seats in the house. Right up close, next to the center aisle, next ... cheap and easy to order in bulk. I reckon there were a total of close to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  summer I'm in the IAP program Ohhhhh You plan to do misti after graduating ... . Cool Yeah not to be soap-boxy but   you are not alone in failing ... refusing to get up" "failing to attempt is the biggest failure of life

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 12, 2024