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• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... already boarded. I rolled up to the driver. “Can I get on this bus?” He ... reservation was still open in Firefox. “Alright! Get on.” Seven hours, four

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Funny pictures of me I wear a New Year's party hat. That's funny, right?

  

  year occurs tomorrow, when I get knocked out to have all four of my ... You want to know the hardest part about this job? Entry titles. It's like impossible to think of some clever 4 word phrase to encapsulate your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Hosts

  

  groups, to find that place where you really do fit in. I'm getting excited to see many of you in just a few days! CPW Weather Watch: Thursday, 50 ... our hosts will be before we get there? I know you're just matching us up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  the reasons I have an interest in journalism today. What’s incredible to ... newsrooms are full of women, all those women are less likely to be in top ... careers in a time when women just didn’t do that. I decided to attend this

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  much time in Photoshop because I didn't want to be programming in Scheme ... unfortunate, since it meant I stayed out until after 2 AM and had to get my butt ... . Luckily, I managed to jot down home of the highlights: How to sleep in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  really easy for her to get what she needed." Such a need has been around ... more," he said, "It's getting past the point of saying it's okay to be ... LGBQT student's life. There's more that goes on in day-to-day conversation

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  read purely for pleasure, time to learn a new language, adventures in the mountains of Colorado and even time to be bored, it is nice to get back to my ... boarded a flight bound for Mexico City, ready to start my summer in Mexico

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  -changing experience. It is a myth that you must do a summer program to get into college ... you updated when there's more to be said. Maybe about this time you ... could share in the joy!" Well, now you can share the excitement! [I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  at MIT a week early to participate in FUP, or the MIT Freshman Urban ... that it's possible to participate in community service at MIT.  One of ... and put effort into making the world a better place to live in, even if

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  tomorrow. Tomorrow, I have to work in the morning, as I get to present to ... ) in Phoenix next month (more on that to come). This weekend is a four ... Fenway Park exit the stadium just in time to watch the lead runners come

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  !" "It's getting hot in here... so immigrate [sic] to Israel with all your ... Hillel after this incident. In short, I was invited to a "Jew-au on Ice" in ... was really afraid because your hand has to get really close to the flame

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  corridors in order to get around campus without walking in the rain outside ... , but what they grow to be” "Happiness can be found, even in the darkest ... was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  . specifically: why I chose to major in physics and mathematics how I decided ... for the equations that I had already learned to solve in math class ... /no record, and a friend convinced me to take abstract algebra. in hindsight I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  (sigh). But, I did get to hang out with my friends in House 1/Chocolate ... ’t want to run in the hall because who does that, but then also you feel ... somewhat similar to junior year of high school, in that I feel I’ve somewhat

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  latter, in the sense that we compete to admit and enroll similar, though ... appoint officers, on down until you get to the general admissions infantry ... awarded well over 80 million dollars in financial aid to our ~4200

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  failed to come together in the summer of 2012, and I headed out to San ... their products to determine if they were successful. It struck me that, in order to truly improve the education of the millions of students in the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  'd be visiting Boston later in January and would love to meet up with me ... want to see another piece of sushi again in my life. For the days since ... relevance to the fields I want to enter. In the past couple of days, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  . For Deferred Students I was deferred. I will never get in RA, right ... only need to send in your February Updates and Notes report, which will ... deferred? If you call in, we will not be able to tell you "the reason

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  ), I went to the undergraduate math office in the same hallway and asked ... logged in on the same computer. I emailed the following message to the 3 ... notebook? If so, I'd be happy to come get it from you Thanks, Mitra I got

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  take the time to get to know them. Hop in a new acquaintance's car for an ... extracurricular commitment, then rushed home at 8:30-9pm or so, to finally get some ... me, had crossed the ocean to attend university in the States - but they

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011