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  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  startups fail but at MIT that number is more like 50%. I bet another one of ... came to claim their diplomas, I lost track of my friends as I was taking ... front while both my friends met Tim Cook outside of the bathroom."  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  will be "Pulsars"...Please confirm acceptance of this offer by 5:00 PM ... to look at things. --- A couple of weeks ago, my dear friend Davie ... , and it felt like I was seeing it for the first time. At the end of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  do the first four miles at the [annotation note="for some definition of ... small falls on the [annotation note="more of a creek at this point ... , but the hills slow me a little. I finish my water bottle on this leg of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  the College Night at the Bronx High School of Science. Fellow alum ... take, though there is some degree of choice for each of the required ... the normal student using 8 terms to get a degree, most take at least one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  North, creator of Dinosaur Comics (a lot of other comic artists. A LOT ... beginning to the two best days of my life. Even registration at something ... . At the end of it Tron Guy dazzled us with a light show. Ooh! Shiny

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  of the links at the bottom of this entry, and rest assured that almost ... -A degree program instead of taking the traditional full Course 2 route ... E. Chemical Engineering, or Course 10, is sort of at the intersection, and you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  has been owning at life lately and winning tons of awards...more about ... As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of ... 'm hosed beyond all imagining, but as it's basically my LAST WEEK AT MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  wanting one. I took a job 1.5 hours north of where I lived not long before ... , my buyers withdrew their offer.  All of a sudden I had a house to sell ... driving a Tesla Model S 85.  I drooled at it.  I stole glances at it.  I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  keep going down this road At the beginning of senior year, I began ... quit. Valuing becoming better means saying yes to projects at the edge of ... -making is a skill. Like many skills, there's a body of knowledge, scattered in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  the MIT Museum way up on the tippy-top of campus (where top = North), I ... , because it is specifically targeted at students within the Department of ... rounds up some of the amenities Architecture students get at MIT. Because

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  of Saturn's north pole, from a NASA information booth at the American ... of my room at home, to the point where I started stashing away cards ... ."]toaster.[/annotation] At the risk of seeming unhinged, I will admit that this one also comes

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  healthy! My program has at least three hours of lecture every day and the ... -PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering with Biomedical Engineering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  Mediterranean. We also got to play in a jungle gym at the top of the hill, but I ... than I am at MIT, and Bob Barker could die and I wouldn't even know about ... fun of me. So, in your opinion, what is the most important world news

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  . I imagine it as the equivalent of a southern hill-billy drawl ... of bed at 4am, kicked my roommate's snoring friend, and stood on the ... taken at the top of the waterfall: The telescope was set up at Glacier

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  produce this list of all US schools that provide at least $1 million in ... 's good to apply to a variety of schools at varying levels of selectivity to ... interested in engineering, Berea offers a 3-2 dual-degree engineering program

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  lot of nothing whisked me into the Boston theater district yesterday at ... 're interested) in the internal piano of my soul. I should confess now that at the ... of late weekend drama. Of course, at 9:20 PM or so, the MIT freshman

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  lasts for a week. Of course, I always end up signing up at the last minute ... distance. Though I had already completed the swim test at the beginning of my ... (P.E.) “points,” then you won’t receive an MIT diploma. Harsh, eh? That

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  Well, look at that, the dawn of a new Monday. Light is gracing the ... wind part my hair a little. At least my chair is made of comfortable ... at which people are moving along and to hear their blissful lack of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  assume they are laughing at me, so I asked them what the heck Second Degree ... unmanageable. A sign of first degree squalor could be that you might be ... out of hand. Signs that you have reached second degree would include

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

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  matter, I don't even think the biology department at MIT offers a masters ... description of life as a doctor -- it just got a little graphic at times, and ... Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006