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• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  the semester! the final was for 14.64 (labor economics), a class i ... (gender and media studies), for which i got to write a final paper about the ... fall; that class introduced to me a bunch of frameworks for thinking

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  the States for university that you'll cast a wide net -- not just MIT ... applications. As always, it was quite fascinating; I learned a lot, met some good people, and came away with a few new ideas. One of the most interesting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  I went to work for about a half-day before taking our bunny, Abby ... , no public transportation necessary. For a Carvel ice cream store, you ... /neuroengineering would be excellent prep for a PhD program in neuroengineering -- my friend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  I’ve given tours for cathedrals and such. England is a lovely place ... statue for a quick picture. As I waited in an empty seat near the departure ... dollars for pounds back at Heathrow, so I bought a chicken/bacon/leek pasty

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  This morning, desperately procrastinating studying for a 6.042 midterm ... with a propellor hat fashion resurgence and an infamous tenure as East ... ’s courses and majors and lays it out in a beautiful pastel graph that

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  Song of the Recruiter Siren You’re a passionate UROP for a lab in ... been here for a while, but covid-19 hasn’t been a thing until a year ago ... and Social Sciences"]library,”[/annotation] yet there’s a button for the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  buy a succulent from a tiny flowershop bursting with greenery. As for ... for the Harvard bus, and I’ve ignored a man telling the entire bus about ... in Arkansas was an old-fashioned tram system in Little Rock, and a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  should I do in order to know MIT better?" A great starting point for how ... Emeritus Mollie posted this helpful and interesting post to a discussion board recently; it is such a good start to answering your question that I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  campus, we went to Chicago Pizza, just a few blocks away, for dinner. ... Yesterday evening I came back from work to discover my friend Kim, a ... (which was her room when I was a frosh). The room should have not only been

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  sitting across MIT's campus struggling to write for more than 30 minutes ... mean you should take your own notes, but a TA is actually taking all the notes and posting them after, leaving three (3) different files for notes

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  . I will try my best to keep this short, as I'm sure this is a sensitive ... courageous for applying, for taking the deep dive and demonstrating your vulnerability and sharing that part of yourself. College admissions is a volatile

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  for the past week i need a healthy dinner~ food. 10/10   Sweet and ... who didn't know soft boiled eggs were a thing until I ate ramen for the ... has a long name for something so simple, but yeah. It's exactly what you

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  in the mainstream, so for a department at one of the world’s most ... gendered words to refer to people for a very very long time, and it’s just ... that just because something has been done for a long time doesn

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and for most people, they go through a rotation as the year goes round and ... . Looked like we were going to be in for quite a bit colder than the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  . He also, I found out, is a recitation instructor for 8.286 - The Early ... in a recent post by Hamsika - as part of MIT's Four Weeks For America ... My first final exam at MIT was 8.012: "Physics For Masochists

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  be between 1) a C. elegans neurobiology lab that does screens for ... for a year or twor, then go back to grad school -- the company he ... company is a really good fit for him personality-wise and in terms of his

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  So, about a month ago, I submitted my last exam for the year in ... skills while finishing up the second half of 18.02A. But before leaving for ... last train left for the night...but that's a story for another time

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  checked the mail at my house, not because of a fondness for the mailman, but ... In June I'll be celebrating, along with my MIT classmates, a pretty ... haven't been reading your folders, working on plans for the big event. At

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  . MIT is not a school for the daintily-shod. For that, I direct you to the ... a metaphor for perseverance, academic ambition, or high SAT scores ... , grading for the class that convinced me to major in Physics a year ago, not

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  Donald's. This week sucks. Well, for everybody else it sucks, because they had finals. Ruth '07, Mitra '07 and I '07 tried to make that a little more tolerable for our floor by preparing one of Conner 2's patented senior finals

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007