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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It’s snowing outside and the windows are cloudy with condensation. A couple of ... . After my PhD defense, I mailed the author a hard copy of my dissertation

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  made the room burn. Whatever manifestations of worry there are, I felt ... of APs to the warm spreading feeling of “but I’ve taken X number of APs ... ? Defining my senior year by the future of "college." I can’t tell my past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  universality. According to Anonymous Fourth Guy, "young people are terrified of ... hadn't been collected yet) and dashed to 10-250 (one of our big lecture ... .05 (Quantum II) so that's kind of exciting. 17 minutes ago, Professor Moore was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  a sign of royalty, princesses drank water from clay vases and then ate the clay, which would absorb all of the water in their bodies and give ... done with the parts that involve getting all the videos off of the video

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  beloved member of our team, died unexpectedly yesterday.  If you ... school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your ... limited to her professional responsibilities. If you were the partner of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  loved and accepted and celebrated. "The arc of the moral universe is ... the fiery shades of leaves in the trees covered the faintest clouds in ... : "Hey, This election means a lot to all of us. And right now, a lot of us

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  It's pre-finals week. Today is the last day of classes. Projects are due, one of my friends slept for one hour last night, I have to submit a ... sense of humor: 1) This article. 2) My bff Sam B. '14's post on my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the Facebook era." Let me share with you an anecdotal history of blogging, what I ... -- MIT alums are cool HISTORY OF MIT BLOGGING I'll keep this short

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  length of the Infinite Corridor, admiring the cracked Terazzo floor and the ... honed amid the mellow brick and expansive green lawns of my and William ... supportive of my children’s right to choose, so I bought him a “

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  3-108, which was part of the [annotation note="Now that we're no ... passageway between buildings 3 and 10."]complex of rooms along the Infinite ... ="Overlooking...Chipotle."]new office,[/annotation] on the second floor of a new building, E38, which is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  I'm approaching the end of the first month of my internship at a ... adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... the mechanical routine of a [annotation note="closer to a 9:45ish-to-5

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• 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
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three months. As this week comes to a close, so does MIT's week of finals. This ... people are ready to take it on without the training wheels. Both of my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• 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 / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  -time photography, and holds the distinction as one of the greatest think tanks in the world. You would think that access to millions of dollars of lab space and ... privilege is mostly a result of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  ! We got a lecture or two on the shape of the universe, and the Higgs ... : not personal growth and the importance of self-care, or how long one can ... of college coursework. So that's what I'm providing here: rough

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  method of scientific teaching and that of premed-prominent universities in ... Gregor, and there was an official Course XIX (Meteorology - but of course, an ... ), and applying to medical school. One of the most interesting things that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  that is literally thousands of degrees hot. You also learn how to "gather ... 's a walkthrough of all the different things I made this semester and some of what I learned! If you're interested in learning more about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022