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• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  , like leaving bags of chocolate at our doors the night before our first 8 ... candy for me before tests. At risk of sounding cheesy, they're almost ... Mumbai time (7:30pm Eastern), to give the North Americans a fair chance at

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  If there were an MIT blogger Hall of Fame, Mollie would definitely be ... with degrees in Biology and Brain & Cognitive Science in 2006. Today, she is a graduate student at Harvard, and is still involved with the MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon EA Students, This One's For You!

  

  the last two telethons but, alas, this year the 9 degree weather outside is just too much of a deterrent, it's so nice and warm inside that I ... . . . have at it. You get me for three hours, go.

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  good for splitting bills with friends and buying cannolis at the North ... In 4 weeks, you will leave home for an academic journey of 4 years. Commence the packing process! Frantic scrambling. Wading through piles of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  . At that time, there are three things that could happen: You could be ... choose to accept the offer, or not accept the offer and apply to other ... with any schools. If you ranked MIT as one of your College Match schools
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  of stairs in the Haus when I ran to look at the Rocko's Modern Life ... at) -1 example of partial view (only part of the performer is visible ... On Monday, I managed to trip and fall down half a flight of stairs

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Winter Storm Warning Brr, it's cold out there. And snowing.

  

  MERRIMACK VALLEY OF NORTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS. SNOW... WILL BE HEAVY AT TIMES ... BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF THE SNOW AND WIND CHILLS IN THE 5 TO 15 DEGREE RANGE ... CANCELLATIONS IN ALL SORTS OF TRANSPORTATION DEPENDENT BUSINESS. SNOWFALL RATES

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  weenie. So since some of the categories don't have many entries at the ... across campus, especially at 2 AM. All types of freshman advising, I ought ... So in case anybody's unaware, I finished my project at the lab at the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  [/annotation] Translation: “I usually look at a bunch of recipes and use the ingredients ... There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the intersection of their everyday language and mathematical jargon is non-empty. In

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  not be adept at “feeling” its physical environment. The Industry One of ... lunch at work. It will always be worth the $10–20 — I think of it as a ... degrees. I had tried my best to make myself a sort of “senior engineer on

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  somewhere kind of far out at sea as the sun set. I mused about reclining in a ... Freshman year has come and gone; three more years of MIT separate me ... was the experience of burning out. Since the next three years won't take

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  of). Every Sunday night at 8.30 pm, we prepare our pancake batter (or ... my roommates and I went apple picking! We went to Honey Pot Hill (at a ... In my last blog post, I mentioned that one nice benefit of becoming a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  Valencia, staying in a hotel at our final city of the trip, and so on. All in ... . Hostels, at least all the ones I stayed at, offered lockers that could only ... headed to Palatine Hill, the mythical founding place of Rome and The Roman

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  at MIT… When you think of competitions at MIT, the first thing that ... at a specific type of competition — athletics.  We have 33 varsity ... step is having all of the academics lined up because MIT does not offer

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I haven’t completed all the recommended coursework?

  At the very least, we recommend you have one full year of both ... course of study and institutional offerings. ... is admitted without calculus and physics at the college level
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  . Watching hundreds of bouncy balls drop at Senior House. I saved a few ... As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh ... they get to the author. --- CPW has been by far one of the best

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  at the beginning of May, when an enrollment decision must be made ... Over a week has passed since Pi day, and the reality of the MIT admission decisions should certainly be sinking in by now. For those offered

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  of my time at MIT nearly enough. During the school year, the only ... corner of the Porter Exchange building. It's very unassuming at first ... Somehow, I've explored more of Boston and Cambridge while living in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  degrees all winter so when we had a couple inches of snow my town forgot how ... The last time I wrote a post as I was flying at some undetermined ... say with complete accuracy, that I am flying over Elmira, NY at 24

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  excel at, because no one could excel at all of them.  So, the job is not ... to the wall of my office. I have regulars at office hours whose ... how obvious inattention is to the person at the front of the room. (To

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025