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• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  Scholarships to cover students who enroll in Chinese universities for degree or ... is some implicit obligation to be nice, or worse yet cheerful and ... and where I'll be heading off to again sooner or later. The first three

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  don't need to plan days in advance every time we want to study or grab ... campus to help with this, luxuriating in the joys of free Starlink wifi ... . There are so many ways to find your people in college, and I want to talk

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  villain in other people's stories. It is never too late to grow or change ... , jokingly referring this period as my "nice era" to my friends. In this new ... caused it or who to thank, because God, I really do want to thank the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  day in 5.112 -5.12 -INTEGARLS* -3.091, or, How to Draw Pretty Pictures ... Milliseconds of 35 MIllisecond Pulsars How to Finish Your HASS Requirement in 50 ... Theory, or How I Learned to Stop Losing and Love Math -The Cities of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  stupid or unqualified, I was able to find support in my peers and in the ... to one of the top universities in the world. My freshman year is ending ... Instagram or maybe even Facebook, but I really wanted to sit down and write

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  Have any of you read “The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at MIT”? If ... (in MechE!) from MIT in 1984 and the book is about his educational ... long bike rides to clear your mind and “ah-ha” moments while chatting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  hoop or do anything else to stop the shocks, presumably because they ... , in the context of friendships (we often assume we are powerless to help our friends resolve their issues so we choose not to help them and in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  time to travel away from MIT to a restaurant in Cambridge or Boston ... unstructured decompression sequence in my 2019 IAP and loved it. (I also tried to ... industry or academia (or something else entirely), so it was nice to observe

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  advice was lost on me in the multitude of options - seminar or traditional, residence based advising or regular, not to mention Experimental Study Group ... doesn't matter if you were born in [as a student], or married in [as an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  internship in pharmaceuticals (or going back to the NIH), but ultimately chose ... internet wasn't my inability to write amusing new blog entries or chat on AIM ... , I need to make travel arrangements. I'm supposed to be in LA in two

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

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  anymore), so now in an effort to get this post up, I'm just going to wing it ... convenient signs above the hallways at every crucial junction or fork in the ... , despite being amazingly prepared to bask in the sunshine of the West Coast

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  with friends or just to sit in a park and breathe some fresh air ... months and reflect on what it meant to me. Living in Boston I spent most ... , or going outside to get an iced matcha from Caffe Nero, or just hanging

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  those people then decide whether or not to accept our belated (but ... to the Class of 2023. A few years ago, in a post addressed to wait ... put in to letting us know how much you love MIT. As someone who was wait

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  In a few minutes I'll head over to the committee room to begin Day 7 ... American Idol addiction comes in handy (did the women pwn last night or what ... 're really going to go far in life and have gorgeous kids and save the world

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  've been up to:   UROP in Langer Lab  I've been dying to tell you guys ... . My specific role in the project is to work with my postdoc to find novel targets in liver cancer cells for the siRNA to attack.  The UROP

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  -term freshman to nth-year grad students) in August on one or more pieces of your ... out that somehow along the line I managed to answer them all in the ... or even some larger liberal-arts type schools, it helped to know that a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  be. We recognize your unique place in our collective transition to ... redefine my values and stand up firmly for what I believe in. I had to learn how to handle fucking up in a more real-world sense than I ever could

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  know what you want to major in, which department or program at MIT ... spend too much time (over)thinking these questions or your answers to them ... guide to expressing yourself well in our essays. Good luck - and happy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Admissions Decisions Available Online Visit decisions.mit.edu to find out your decision.

  

  ://decisions.mit.edu. You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log ... sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to ... . To reiterate: don't wait for decisions to arrive via email or snail

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  commute. [annotation note="or 8:00 to catch the 8:11 bus if i decide to sleep in till 7:45"]i usually leave at 7:33 to catch the 7:51 bus ... east coast doesn't hold a candle to the west coast in terms of japanese

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019