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• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  , to be divided unequally amongst 400 or so residents. 2.The Choir Party in Random Hall's Stairwell. At MIT circa Finals Week, people tend to ... Maxwell's Equations in a Vacuum. Certain events, however, tend to stick out

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  ’m referring to the Boston Marathon (won by Kenyan runner Geoffrey Mutai in ... Yesterday was the third Monday in April, meaning it’s Patriots’ Day (a holiday celebrated almost exclusively in Massachusetts and Maine

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  , or even months, before things get back to normal. Please know that for ... . I was happy to be able to help out. Now, as I watch from a hotel in ... , where every school in the entire county has been closed. San Diego County

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  in our lives—in this case, how to communicate more effectively via ... most of what they teach us in class brings us about 3% closer to real ... answer. In short, when it comes to programming skills that matter, we have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  ? Interestingly*, I haven't gotten out of MIT recently. (In nearly one year, to be ... not operate a motor vehicle until they're over 25 and in California? Or ... suppose that's understandable. I have an aversion to expired dairy. In fact

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  let you in. Some apply early to help space out their applications ... people, to decide whether you want to come or not. Again, there is no ... whether to attend or not by May 1st. Not admitted means that, unfortunately

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  .0. When I got engaged to her dad in Killian Court the summer after senior ... hold everybody in the admissions office to that vague decade-old promise ... about whether she’s going to be a scientist or an engineer.) And I have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  Santaluces valedictorian headed to MIT, career in medicine By Kathi ... each year to an outstanding local student by the Morikami Museum in ... , presented the scholarship to Kubber in a ceremony at the museum last month

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  stressful weeks. He often checks in on all of us and reminds us to stay ... whiteboards with casual chit chatter about his day to day life and life in ... became one of my favorites. I started to do really well in the class

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  . In fact, the thinking has already been brewing. As I'm talking to my ... - but for what? Or work - in which specific industry? Gap year - will it ... difficult to understand why the health sector is more in demand today than say

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  year, respect their time! Try to get your application components to us in ... interest to early and regular action applicants. For Regular Action Applicants Schedule your interview now.* The deadline (December 1) to schedule

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  I'm studying abroad next semester at ETH Zurich in Switzerland! (Or ... a letter of recommendation, and also sent an email to my advisor. In ... department we are in, so similar to MIT, there is an focus on exploring other

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  , but if you're in a frosh double, you have to vacate it for next year ... " over and over. If necessary to lighten the mood, finish with one play of ... through bare words, but also through context that exists separately in the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... could to get a better look at was was so alluring a distraction in the ... of this squeeze I had left in front of me: Needless to say, caving

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  one freshman in the eye without freaking him or her out to begin a ... you should never get that vocal or intrusive, but you do have to learn a ... us. Thus came the dilemma of “to cross or not to cross”. And

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  . In order to gain some valuable experience manufacturing products, we get to design and manufacture plastic yoyos in this class! Definitely ... 'm getting used to some big changes in my life. The first change that I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  lived in the dorm, which is a hard truth to internalize. how did only a few months in a building I won't return to for years influence my ... stating that things would be back to normal in fall, I've been thinking more

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over ... . I didn't know what to expect going in to it, knowing literally not one ... . We split in to groups and designed objects meant to fix a problem in

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  able to account for differing intuitions in variants of the life ... seems clearer. Thus, for the maximum principle to be effective in cases of ... medicine variant. In particular, we will have to assume a sort of equal

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  to trigger vomiting. but i haven't had a cold in years, let alone one ... bed. yep, did that. make themselves soup or tea. i was not going to ... , i wasn't going to go to mit medical. also, despite living in east

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022