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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  other to get in our petition forms, and it was exciting because it totally ... experience - you get stranded on this island in Massachusetts Bay, have these ... going to be living in the same dorm as him. I lived in a triple during my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  , in fact, qualified and smart enough to get through it. I don't have a ... to one of the top universities in the world. My freshman year is ending ... something that was meant for all of you to read. I've been getting a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of numbers in some random order (say 3, 19, 2, 17, 14, 4) and I wanted you to ... ’s another diagram (you may need to zoom in), this time with 27 test subjects

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  grown closer) since being sent home due to COVID-19. Staying in contact ... ,[/annotation] in addition to the new stress of an unexpected return to family life ... ."]met before[/annotation] but never had a chance to get to know well. I didn

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Battle in The Bay a comic

  

  and I, we've really gotten to know each other. In between splitting and ... charm to it. In addition to experiencing what it's like to be a "real adult" in the "real world", I've been able to spend a good amount of time

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  which you get discounted meals but in order to break even, you need to eat ... . :-) Hmm. In all this talk about dining, I didn't get to the second part of ... walk in anytime and find some friends to sit down with, and I feel like I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  to talk to / get to know we’re analyzing a film in literature and ... to get along with people here than I did with people in high school ... 's easier for us to notice this in other people + people are more open in some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  alums happy to talk about what they majored in, where they lived, and what ... students throw their hat in the ring because they have nothing to lose! Students can apply to up to three externships in the middle of Fall semester

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  considered trying to move to East Campus for awhile, but in the end I decided ... to actually read the name of the dorm they've been assigned to AND get ... that the bike wasn't going to fall. In fact, it looked pretty cool up

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  . We are currently 6-1 in conference play and getting ready to begin the ... great chance to get outside and watch some fire athleticism on Roberts and ... playing ever since. I didn’t always know I wanted to play in college, but

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  "), "tan". Then you get to the hyperbolics and it's "sinch," "cosh" and ... thoroughly explored chemical compound and then getting to perform any reactions ... ." To summarize: one day in June 2004 I was knocked off my bike by a car

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  21 = Vegas + MIT kids. Me = born in Vegas (seriously) + going to MIT ... 's important to note that basically in terms of applying to grad school ... fact that they traveled to Vegas and got in trouble with the authorities

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  September and I’m not at MIT registering for classes and trying to squeeze in ... surprise, and I expected it to be all better when I take classes in my major ... you're doing. In a matter of months, I’d gone from preparing to apply to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  advice in his remarks to MIT's newest graduates. The whole speech is ... streets. -- Salman Khan, in his commencement address to the MIT Class of ... . See, I used to run. (Used to.) It was back in my freshman year of high

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  friends, put them in my life for a day, and get them to think about it, they ... 't perceived, and broken down to its component parts. in a general sense, maybe ... to see the gestalt, please look at this. in this sense gestalt and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  offer. And in the midst of all of that, take some time to get to know the ... scratch. You get 20 minutes to escape the room and secure a UROP! As a part ... all of you! So, welcome to MIT ‘22s!! We can’t wait to get to know y

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  classes within that department. The idea is to get some depth in a HASS field, and not just lots of breadth.) 3) It's time to explore my major in ... undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  ’t live in a vacuum, and it’s stressful to waste energy and time on ... I'm interested in would be unsustainable. I need to choose something to focus on in order to not completely destroy my mental health; double

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  side, I had the option to work at a startup in Cambridge called Geo ... opportunity to develop skills in the field of electrical engineering and it ... guides you toward what you truly want to be. In Steve Jobs’ biography

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  , you get a lot of choice in what you want it to be. Former blogger Mollie ... . But i have decided that now my only aim is to get in MIT so i need your ... school to get admission in 1 of the best college like MIT. Do you think

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007