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• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  fraternity, sorority, an independent living group, or in their own apartment ... Monday morning in the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity House. I woke up and ... having breakfast. As usual, I missed the Boston Daytime shuttle to campus

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  masks. I hadn't been to that park in forever, which isn’t all that ... in the Park, and over to the fields, where I played soccer in second ... back in high school had emailed me out of the blue and offered to catch

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  Laverde's all the time. I'll be continuing to work in my undergrad lab full ... investigator" or PI), wants me to write some sort of short and sweet paper on the ... -time in my "rotation" lab -- you get to rotate through as many labs as you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  39 day summer program in astrophysics, biochemistry, genomics, or ... no one to talk to about 3blue1brown or NASA missions or programming ... about fitting in or finding friends were dashed within an hour of my

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  readers who are in Cambridge or are familiar with the campus/city, please ... must say though, Cambridge actually has pretty places to take pictures of ... too many pictures of the Cambridge as an actual town in this blog. So I

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  These are the decisions you’re looking for. 2022s are happening

  

  decisions are made available, you will need to access decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same username and password that you use to sign into ... sure you are ready to receive your decision before signing in to

  • by Decisions Droid
  • March 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Not all heroes wear capes – but some carry tubes. 2021s are happening

  

  in to decisions.mit.edu. To ensure that you will receive a decision ... and/or password, you may use our automated system to reset it. Visit My ... . Next week, when decisions are made available, you will need to access

  • by Riri Williams '20
  • March 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the ... on the current viewbook I would love to hear them. What do you like or dislike about it? How does it compare to (or stand out from) other viewbooks

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  desensitized to event emails because we get so many every day or 2) I am ... English as their first language and grew up in different cultures try to ... ! She also should get credit for pushing me to ask the question in the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  FPOPs, chances for freshmen to dabble in a huge variety of subject and ... awesomeness, in fact, that I decided to experience it the next year as an ... tenure. To any future freshmen who are debating whether or not to thrust

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  didn't even get in on the first try. I had to wait until COVID-19 expanded the program for me in order to get in. And so that's why when I look ... pressure of having a class in order to get things done. Online classes don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  window (or at my phone). I hope you, too, are able to take a break in ... course, in all the things that we’d like to be able to leave behind. But at the same time, in some ways it’s too easy to for me to feel like the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  third UROPs, offers were made to me unexpectedly in casual conversations ... glad that I’m not mainly washing glassware or doing grunt work in ... in lab. The most exciting thing that happened to me is when my work got

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  , you'll be able to help us out, learn a recipe or two, and enjoy a ... really to come and talk to us in person, as iHouse is just too diverse and ... This is going to be my third CPW, and all I can tell you that you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  later) scrambled to borrow a laptop and sent in an application. And - I ... for me: If you'd like to post the link yourself on your blog, or just ... years?" ("I'm supposed to know at 18?"), or "describe a hardship," ("this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  it into the saw in order to make a cut. To use a bandsaw, after ... legs were both straight, or of the top wasn’t curved in the way it is ... in paint, approximately how i cut the π[/caption] I had to cut it in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  upperclassmen on your hall or in your major provide some amount of support to ... to axiomatic thinking. Except, in reality, mathematicians don’t start ... ’t as rigorous as those in math-- they are hardly logically consistent or

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  come back and share those stories (in the comments or via email to me ... threads for applicants to celebrate or commiserate about this decisions ... journey in the time since. I wanted to blog some wise words shared by prior

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  efficiency of management and to eliminate fluctuations in economic and social ... special talents, and to provide an environment in which these may flourish ... the "persistent tendency to...centralization of control in all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  've been lying around either freezing or burning up in bed or on my couch or somewhere in between trying to figure out why the little birds on my ceiling ... are hammering in morse code and are repreatedly trying to tell you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008