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• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  do pick a lab at the beginning of the summer, my choices will basically ... north of Boston, where we'll move in June with our bunny, and of course we ... people (moms) who like to look at this sort of thing. The ceremony will be

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

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  Airbnb had checkout at 11am, which for those of us who were up at 4am was a ... of this retreat, we are all very excited!!!) Liveblogging Also about a month ago, in the middle of one of our blogger check-ins, Kano asked the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  the Metro. At the time of my visit, the Glass Palace, which is inside ... public and can actually be entered, though at the time of my visit, it was ... Room [Flamenco at Casapatas] Courtesy of Professor Resnick and funding

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  to go to classes and stuff, so he was expelled at the end of his ... readmitted in 1936. Now, at MIT, passing a typical class earns you 12 units of ... as many as you want as long as you take at least half of your units at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  Terence '13 Christy '13 At the end of the article about Sean, I've attached ... and technological research and development also offers a wide range of ... tournament in four years. "A lot of people don't know it, but they offer more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  II of the application. If you are admitted and you enroll at MIT, then ... course offered at MIT?" To help me in responding, my erstwhile housemate ... currently working towards another degree in nursing at a local community

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  which an institution offers you glory, but at the cost of sacrificing ... accomplished what I set out to do: earn my graduate degree…at the cost of ... Take in the familiar sights, smells, and faces of your community. Can

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  stress of college applications and the stress of just being at school in ... , letting them know the good news. I got a lot of fake shit at school. A lot ... nearly cried with joy at the prospect of not having to go back to high

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  hill at the Killarney end of the Gap of Dunlow, which I might try for ... charged me at the top of the Gap, when there was still wifi, and when at the ... Magically [annotation note="university wifi, typically found at

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More specifically, I'm going to lead by example by posting some of my own writing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  .5 years' worth of work at a "normal" courseload. But there's a slight catch ... " courseloads is 384 units. So, that's what sort of picture you're looking at ... /humanities) or 21E (for engineering/humanities). For either of these degrees, you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  Director of Student Financial Aid and Student Employment at MIT. He has over ... become. In 2004, during my tenure as Director of Financial Aid at MIT, I ... For the integrity of alumposting, I'm pasting Daniel's bio from 2009

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  ’ve chomped at over 60! These cafes celebrate a variety of cuisines, flavors ... , thai tea, coconut, and ube, Maprang offers a variety of pastries, cakes ... of cafes I hope to chomp at next semester: Pepita 3 Little Figs

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  (This entry courtesy of the free wireless internet at the Hotel ... -five biology programs, and my training will be excellent at all of them; what I ... particularly useful. In biology at least, a masters degree won't really get you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  eat at the campus taqueria Navigating the flood of fellow students ... ) MIT diploma We began closed beta testing of the game to our Early ... Since last summer, we here at MIT [Admissions] Labs have been working

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  -seminar program initiated by the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at ... to learn something new at every seminar. The list of the seminars that ... , and exposes us to the breath of humanities research that exist at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.

  

  Currently at Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square awaiting the arrival of ... line started forming at X - 2 o clock. Bloggers have a way of running ... some classes at Hogwarts and see if there are any similar ones at MIT

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.

  

  Sistine Chapel is this stunning. The second of these landmarks, the ... DID YOU KNOW? GERMANY EDITION According to one of my labmates, authorities have set up a row of big-screen projectors in Berlin spanning an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  Exchange offers a wide range of experiences and can depend significantly on ... , although the only evaluation for Cambridge occurs at the end of the year in ... deal of preparation and are significantly harder than most exams at MIT

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  adjacent to beauty, but beauty does not give others the feeling of an elastic ... about the kind of beauty that arose from symmetry, from clear skin or a ... ’s overused, I think, to the point of meaninglessness. I don’t want my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022