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• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  ) before second semester start in February. And I'm alone. No classmates down ... Maryland in our hard-earned car to go grocery shopping. I wasn't exactly ... Sliced Roast Beef [mmmm roast beef] Applegate Sliced Turkey [in case I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  that I'm conspicuously irregular in my sleep schedule, and I say this ... Avenue, half-groggy and half juiced with adrenaline. Within 20, I'm in ... spots. Now, take the sum of everything that I've just written, factor in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  too. Neither of these are things I ever thought would happen, so that ... whole seemed so abstract and so distant that I basically thought it would ... . I didn't know what to expect going in to it, knowing literally not one

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  --walking thru the Infinite today has been so exciting! 18:51: I spy free food in ... (Take a look at “My Monday” by Yuliya K. '18 for her day in the life ... ) wristband. Happy Monday, MIT! Also my roommate picked up my first paycheck in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  Well, I'm back at MIT after a lovely Thanksgiving in the land of the ... , even though it was pouring rain and freezing. I elected to stay in bed ... Thanksgiving dinner as I'm sure my family had back in Ohio, but don't tell Adam I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  computer programming in high school, and I knew the next logical step would ... mathematical computing) this semester, and I blow glass in MIT’s glass lab. The truth is, I’m actually majoring in 6-2 (electrical engineering and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  Last weekend was crazy. Crazy good. So good, in fact, that I needed a ... employers, and my family. All of them believed in me, and told me I can do ... buy your own. It weighs a lot on your finger, too! On days when I'm not

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  . Regardless, I covered my costume, went to a really cool meeting in the morning ... and I were going to the local supermarket, Shaws, to buy ingredients to ... A typical day in East Campus. Okay, it was not quite typical. It was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  weeks has been bullet points. lists in lists in lists. i wrote an entire ... overcommitment i am now a build lead. this means i'm one of the people in ... much done all the work so far. sometimes i wonder what my life would'

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  't know if I would get in or not) and I applied to some places where I was ... about what would make me happiest in a college experience, I made good ... to apply (I'll explain this in a minute) and honest with yourself in

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  I spent this summer in a relatively “chill” state. My UROP that I did ... and on my own hours, which was very useful when I was in Pacific Time ... finished a tv show in its entirety; i hope this will be the first. i am

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  that a glass wall in my head shattered, because up until then i hadn ... walls have i been trapped in without ever realizing it?  there are rules ... feel great when i do this. so recently i’ve been wondering what it would

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  chance to meet over the weekend when I wasn't slaving in lab, passed out on ... research for the past three years in a UROP with Professor Robert "I ... . Alicia and I were sitting in the suite one morning discussing, among other

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  coincidence that would never happen again, or whatever. And now that I'm almost ... is cross section of my semester in screen shots. 1) I hit exactly $0 ... ordering the Indian food I have open in another tab. Peace out, cub scouts.

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  allowed to drop a class without penalty, was last Wednesday, so I'm in all ... finished in January. I have a lot of neurons to image on the confocal ... bathroom. Of course, according to Murphy's Law, I passed two professors in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  rock band CDs and video game/TV/movie soundtracks. In high school, I ... ’m not directly involved in. Yay theatre!) I won’t write a comprehensive ... manager, so I may have stepped in for an evening. Their rehearsals are

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  ."]she wanted to retire.[/annotation] I would start taking notes early on in the ... to get them out in any tangible way. So I continually pushed blogs ... a long blog about both, but I felt it would be better to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  I would concentrate in, having taken three different subjects in three ... would be so happy if I could show this in a way other than my MIT ... concentration in writing in one semester, and it got me thinking - maybe I could

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summertime Science Got that summertime, summertime science...

  

  up a fake science show where Ryan and I would do experiments in our ... are curious.) But in any case, if you don't know who I am, all you need ... summer, I did as any nerdy sister would do to remedy the situation of a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  company had a project ready for me to start work on the second I stepped in ... on in a short amount of time. This week, I met with my mentor to give a ... information. With two months to go, I asked her how she would define the project

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011