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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  lounge, one of the upperclassmen in my dorm stopped by to comfort me. “Don ... -defined problems fed to you by a benevolent manager, then you’re in luck because the ... differences. Each of the teams also wanted to pull the project in a certain

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  in Montana, how many little communities. Next to Montana are Washington ... researcher, you can get obsessed with and trapped in your little specialty ... battle to fight both in advocating for the importance of undergraduate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  undecided in which colleges I wanted to apply to. All I wanted to do was get ... I realize that some of my readers may not have had the opportunity to visit MIT yet. They may never walk the tunnels before they decide to apply

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  tried to recreate this in my room, it would probably have too much avocado ... spent with walking around the campus and the city to get an idea of who ... Mission Log 3042007 It's 6 o clock in the morning, and I ask myself

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  least five times in the past few months, but never gotten around to ... semester in order to present you an honest picture of life at MIT. There is ... intending to be a double major in [annotation note="writing!"]Course 21W

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  to get a question in edgewise. TAs also look to avoid these OH and they ... absolutely fall in love with the class (shoutout to Tim P.(but to be fair ... students in course 18! Life becomes a lot easier when you learn to ask for

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  as possible. On weekdays, those of us willing to get up for breakfast ... Walmart, which, in our tiny New Mexico town, was a destination akin to ... up in the glittering sky with bugs chirping in my ear, to imagine that

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  ordinarily would have wanted to blog about. Knowing me, I’ll never get around ... night in Las Vegas, then… Pass through Valley of Fire on our way to ... … Pass through Las Vegas (again) on our way to… One day in Joshua Tree

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge ... trips abroad in summer, so adjusting to being away from home ended as soon ... unproductive feelings in a healthier way and to not blindly reject others when I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  , and started her ascent to stardom by starring in the Abercrombie & ... to Lost Evie above).We'll have winners in each category. The rules ... to scan it in yourself, though. Submit your entry either by leaving a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  often time people get to know me, and then learn about my Islam due to my ... admissions in general. I had actually committed to Cornell, I had done all of ... actually, there’s just so much to do. In a literal sense, there are so many

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  standing next to you. You dove right in; there was no preamble. Everyone knew ... house to buy in my new town, go on a big adventurous trip to Asia, and then (finally) get a dog. Everything was going according to plan. I was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  Hasbro to see if they'd be interested in producing and manufacturing them ... of times just to see how they were doing. They seemed to be getting ... Plushies finished up their stay in the museum at Lowell and were transferred to the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  meet cool people through classes, who have pushed me to think in new ways ... them in to make searching for the actual classes easier if anyone wants ... Better So People Listen More We gave a lot of talks to get better at

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  life and work on this blog. 15/01/2025 2:22 in my attempts to "fix my ... Minesweeper by 10 seconds (to 120 seconds)!! we found a supernova in a nice, big ... discovered in the last couple days in large online databases, and try to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  and have most of the day (except class hours) to have fun in Tokyo! It ... getting to know Tokyo to a deeper level than I had ever before just ... location when I was still going to school in Taiwan). Also, I'm trying

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  opportunity to send in the missing pieces. These applicants will be at no ... year. Your updates: We've been getting email updates from some of ... would instead include these updates in your Midyear Report. The MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  . Either way, there are inevitable going to be four sleeping people in the ... , introductory paper to the major collosal paper due in December, just like four ... I prefer that extra mile. Plus, it's just so convienant to get around

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  myself outside in the snow or in the rain, waiting for the strobe lights to ... , waiting to be let back in. You can actually hear the Simmons fire alarm from ... , Simmons Hall has a bazillion little windows in order to make the building

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  graduate school, I've just started to ponder what life is going to be like in ... Masters that is offered only to MIT undergrads. You apply in your junior ... is that you get a masters in just 1 additional year, but right now my

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006