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• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first time I ever went to New York City it was to see Lucy Lawless play Rizzo in a Broadway production of Grease. After 18 hours, 4 major cities, and over 4,000 miles of amazingly exhausting travel

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  them mail them to people they knew outside the city. I was, of course ... mail. It's not a weird as it sounds, I promise). At the end of the unit ... fact: His office doors are covered in pictures of his former students and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  moments of one's childhood. I think I'll just start with the facts and save ... to really process all of this. In a nutshell: after four incredible years here, I'm going to be leaving MIT in July. I'll also be leaving

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will be present at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Albuquerque this…

  

  ) to me (in the comments or via email). I hope you can join us! MIT ISEF ... with a dozen of the 20+ MIT 2010s at Intel ISEF. The table at dinner. In ... , I got to visit many of the finalists and their projects. Anneke '10 at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  cells exchange their water in the matter of milliseconds. Proof?" The Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out of cells? 1:31 am: I ... proportions of aquaporins in a cell are   2:41 am: today I learned that

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  all of my colleagues in Admissions and across MIT have those people ... time for everyone; I've been at the verge of tears over this awful, awful situation. The feeling of anguish and helplessness can be overwhelming. Life

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  like all of them. Not yet. Even now, I can’t really explain why I came to ... I mulled the numbers over in my head, I realized that many of the ... Hospital in Springfield, a nearby city in Massachusetts. I had always been

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  , because honestly, some of them are so mundane that I'll forget them in a few ... .5 years of our lives and relationship in there. Although I'm really excited ... because of the pandemic. I never would have started running, or lived in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  " was not a good name for a train. Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT. Half the books I use in my graduate classes were written by my MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  is that the problem set solutions can look like this. Keep in mind, I ... slides can legitimately remind you of the day you discovered Paint in ... On the Coming of Winter in Boston November peels away like buttery

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  minute work in. Wednesday - 9/15 Before Class I practiced a little bit of ... beginning of school year B) Working in Stud5 (7-9) I then studied/worked in ... . Working in Stud5 (12-1) I worked on the fifth floor of the Student Center

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  key is to try to maximize what you do get out of MIT. For example, I think that I've done an okay, if not great, job taking advantage of IAP ... that I went to because it sounded exciting. :) Participated in Mystery

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  , I bravely forged ahead, conscious of increased workload in other areas ... doing well in all of my classes, but I felt somewhat that my hand had also ... troubled me. Upon reflection, I realized that—in spite of the number of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  i've been thinking, recently: in times of need, who takes care of me ... and face masks and indulging in a bit of luxury. "self-care is buying ... 's just the act of putting my phone down when i've been stuck in a scrolling

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  I should probably start out with this: oh hey, guys, I’m living in Boston this summer in my sorority house with a kickass river view of Boston, I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  none of the current bloggers live in ILGs, I'm appreciative of Keri ... , kids. I had an exam yesterday, just got out of another exam, and have yet ... 've been doing with my life and which flights of stairs I've fallen down this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  buy into the notion that somewhere, in some crevice of my brain, lies ... flip- because who can argue against the will of the universe? heads ... of making me, the superstitious person, look ridiculous when I replied

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  have a dedicated home office space. I always read in my office so I can ... I'm in reading mode. I listen to CD 101.9, which always reminds me of ... minimum of a half-gallon of iced green tea day. I brew it in mason jars in

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I take a summer session?

  During the regular Summer Session, MIT offers a limited selection of the subjects available in the academic year, as well as a few subjects designed for special interests and needs of MIT students. All classes are for
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I can begin to even explain where I've been. At the risk of sounding ... you okay?" and in response, I described a bunch of things going on in my ... suddenly the beginning of May and frankly, I'm terrified. I indulged in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023