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• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  and astronautics a thousand "internet years" ago, when those of us who ... place called a library to get information. It was, of course, uphill both ways in the snow to get to the Institute back then. After a stint in

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  Institute of Health (NIH) found in a study that 52% of participants that ... . If you want a summary of what 2.009 is about, Chris made a post. 140 ... ." Each presentation was seven minutes long followed by four minutes of Q

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  Esplanade and leaving The Institute behind at the end of the day for a few ... This is the time of year where goodbye posts are pretty common on ... admitting our students. I had at times been a bit jealous of my friends and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  much been a whirlwind of activity. For once I have absolutely no problem ... of free time to socialize, relax, and simply enjoy everything that ... little bit more about my UROP, but also show you a small sampling of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  Class of '10: getting super ready and excited for school? I hope you ... !) so here it goes. IТƒфd like to preface this all with the statement of ... everyone an equal footing, regardless of prior education. It will also

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  communications. I offered the idea to make our own MIT version of Chilled ... with my computer screen for 12 hours a day, now seemed as good of a time as any to save this post from the crowded purgatory of [annotation note

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  -campus dining options; there's a huge cooking culture in many of the dorms, as ... still think MIT's the place that can't be beat; the majority of my ... ; Michelle, do you remember?) year of high school, when my friend Michelle

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to ... concentration, sitting through an hour and a half of lecture without being ... that about 30% of us were going to be kicked out of the class by the end

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  will be "Pulsars"...Please confirm acceptance of this offer by 5:00 PM ... offer you an appointment to The NRAO Summer Student Research Assistantship ... than that, and spent all of Thursday grinning like a crazy person. The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the Class of 2012 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two ... choose one of September, 2009 (1 gap/deferral year) September, 2010 (2

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  world. Hopefully, after four years of TFP, this hypothetical job will not entail flipping burgers. The only practical result of this for me, since I ... led me to MIT and my ultimate hatred of anything math-related, or if I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.) Some news from me ... from The Other Side of college: one on where I live, one on what I do on ... live - It's nice to feel like I live in a city, instead of feeling like

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the Class of 2014 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two ... of September, 2011 (1 gap/deferral year) September, 2012 (2 gap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  place a stick of incense in the incense pot at a temple festival. Now ... and today, and I thought I would post some of the good things that came ... of coping with being away from home. My only good advice for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... categories you see at the top of the site. I decided this afternoon that I ... 'd been getting a lot of questions lately. Lo and behold, while looking for

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born ... War II and deepened by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia ... gallon of milk every morning. I am well known among family for ripping off

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  i'm currently in the midst of my second week of online school. things ... May 4th, which means that i won't see him or any of my friends for a while. i'm kind of emo about it, but have decided to take advantage of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  Nature has to offer along the route and were honoured to be a part of such ... *written by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20 (members of MIT SEVT) as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* We did it

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  and every one of them. But we offer these things up for them - the only ... Last Friday afternoon, I - like many of you - learned of the awful ... MIT's Infinite Cooridor. I met up with a handful of other MIT Symphony

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  be interesting to explore some of the less-than-optimal decisions I ... which (especially the second one) had the overall effect of lowering my GPA while also not being very useful while also causing a lot of stress

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017