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• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  to say that at some point in last night's studying, around 3 AM, I went outside to take a break and get some fresh air. It was, however, raining, so ... ; and in that moment I thought to myself that if my life were a movie that

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  this year in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange program. Possibly due to his ... thought it would be nice to get away from that for a year. This isn't to say ... to do full-time research in string theory. People here are passionate

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  who are committed to learning French at MIT. You spend two weeks in ... JSF was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. We were exposed to a side of ... ’s safe to say that none of us really knew what we were in for. We were met

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  't get a PhD in engineering, though, unless you wanted to become a ... in my form (to the lovely Jessie, I might add), I ran into my friend ... ever get into MIT. As we were gossiping about people with whom we went to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: The 2016 Siemens Competition is now open

  

  volunteer judges to review student projects. All students in grades 9-12 during the 2016-2017 school year are eligible to win up to $100,000 in ... encourages all students, working as individuals or in teams, to submit research

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 11, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  walk, how I am or am not in the flow, to how it takes me time to relearn ... different. That I don't really belong. In the U.S., when I go to different ... , working overtime trying to fit in. But I really want to fit in because I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... mom asked, "So, my kid is coming to EC in less than two weeks (EEEEEK ... you stop reading one of the lines in the middle and neglect to add the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  University in South Korea, where it's possible to major in taekwondo like an ... how the taekwondoist could possibly contort himself in midair to hit all ... , there seemed to be a lot of air in between the kicks and "injuries." This

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  nights and early mornings to get everything done. In the midst of all this ... helps people who build web applications talk to each other in different ... months ago, Brian moved out of LoTaD to start a master's in Oxford, and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  Nina Lutz for multiple hours in editing, to my family for being awesome in the videos, to my best friends Diann Huynh and Chielo Mbaezue for ... like to hear me talk about getting to MIT and my last days at home then

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at ... becoming a doctor, I wanted to get a little insight into the pharma aspect of ... , including reading for fun, dancing as much as I used to in high school, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  excellent introduction to maker culture and allows you to get dirty in hands ... not had the energy to do so this semester! Let's get right into it ... to find [annotation note="the building Makerlodge is in, the Deep

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just ... verb in any language to act as the deliberate version of [annotation note ... framing this post in the form of a Letter To My Past Self. If 2016 Abby

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Decisions

  

  you again get a choice: where do you want to go? Remember that no matter ... We've come to the time of year when many of you readers will find out whether you've been admitted to MIT or not. I want to express to you all my

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  -mail, you're encouraged to write the body in both English and French. Now ... To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing list, there are three things you need to know: 1) Right outside our

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  who are brave enough to live in the dorms with your kids! You'll get a ... meetings. Not complaining, just want to get the facts straight so that we can ... thinking about a career in medicine? This would be a good one to attend. 12

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  . 7)Privacy, or the lack thereof- It is tough to get alone time in ... ready to clean months of caked-on food. I abhor washing dishes in our tiny ... nurse? No, she doesn't want to get near your blood, God knows what kind of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Introduction To ROTC At MIT A new guest-author blog in response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC programs at…

  

  this past spring. In response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC ... military, but there are opportunities for international students to get ... 'll go on to diverse assignments, such as an R&D job in an Air Force

  • by ROTC
  • August 14, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  adventure to Montreal in the great land of Canada. Neither of us had been to ... : So all in all, it was a successful and spontaneous adventure to the ... . She asked me if I wanted to go to Canada, and I said yes. About 24 hours

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  committee people talking about what was going to be in their fall budgets. UA ... most of the time, but the bright spot is that I get to see cool people at ... articles. You'll just have to wait until the magazine gets published to hear

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005