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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  , business), get a “real” job, take a year off to figure things out, work for a ... thanks to the Rhodes Scholarship, followed by 7-8 years in an MD ... I will try to make a difference in the world within my field. Then I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  movie Kate decides to get serious, slits her wrists, and uses the blood to ... there to do in suburban Harrisburg, Pennsylvania? Well, not too much ... went to the only Starbucks in a 10 mile radius (formerly the greatest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  in the garage and I use it to get to A to B. My car at college rests in ... , most people from my high school decided to stay in Texas for college for ... to put you in a new environment. Changes are destined to happen whether

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  's couched underneath a few other stores in the area, it's hard to find, but ... coolness - not all of which I completely understand - to render images in ... I almost don't know how to get started with things. That same

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  lot of what I was looking forward to in college.   freshman year  As a ... to keep pursuing existing interests in computer science, while seeking ... lol” kind of way, since one of the first things I had to get used to at

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  hooky more than I ever did. But when your mother is begging you to call in ... sleeping in until 11 AM; I then rode my bike to the Student Center and ate a ... time to blowdry my hair normally. In fact, I don't even own a blow dryer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  in Beijing called Linked Hybrid. Of course I had to see Simmons ... Maps and found a way to get there via public transportation. But once I ... , shuffling through options in my head - I could go back to the bus station, go

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  happily give A's). But it's a lot easier for me to get good grades in ... workaholic has to get up at 6 AM to be in lab by 7 tomorrow morning! ... class to finish up the PE requirement. We are, in case you are unaware

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  like that in your life. 2) It helps to get an English teacher from a ... his hard drives was broken. So Patrick the Irish decided to stick it in ... meaning, so you are NOT ALONE in your endeavors to write great things

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  of people in hundreds of different professions from hair dressers to ... human factors in what we bring to and need from our work. The one story ... behavior and human foibles just by observing people in relation to their cars

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  This is entry #2 in my series "entries that need to be written ... are only graded in a pass/fail fashion -- if you get an A, B, or C in a ... people tend to get lower grades first term at MIT than they've ever gotten

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  a mini mill in your dorm at MIT? And do you get time to work on your ... ordinary people who were either lucky enough to get in. Oh wait... to which ... Mechanical Engineering and only open to students in that major (likewise with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  company back home in Houston to get experience, get paid, and get by without ... the summer to sit down and write them out. Two semesters in, and the ... 'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  . See, I'm starting to get interview invites from some of the graduate ... , I need to make travel arrangements. I'm supposed to be in LA in two ... rate, they need to get to me soon -- I just checked the Boston-LA flight

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  hardships to get into MIT (or that hardships are the only way to get in ... we started a Black Student Union in our school to build community, but ... staying to get some home-cooked food from my mom during travels). There were

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  "]for things to get worse,[/annotation] so we'll see how it goes. In the meantime ... ="Communication Intensive in the Humanities; basically means you have to write a certain ... forwards to being creative in yet another unique way. 21M.401, Concert

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  than voice parts in which case you are forced to ignore some of the ... and harmonies that don’t exist in the original song to create a thicker ... arrangements. tldr it takes a lot of work just to get to the point of having

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  , you had to get in line early for ring sales to get a subsidy. Therefore, Cara L. and I woke up at 6:30 am on a Saturday to get in line for 10 am ... The first speech I ever gave in my life was to the 1000 of you who

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

   police for getting too close to the front while both my friends met Tim Cook ... less than an hour, my bus leaves in less than an hour, I need to do ... tunes to get the mind flowing. I prefer to use themostdangerouswritingapp

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  trying to be positive. Still, I don’t believe in blanket statements. I like ... Tumblr is where I put a lot of this reflection. In particular, I seem to ... on the internet, I was surprised in the last couple years to find an

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015