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• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  a software engineering internship to learn software engineering? Well ... there was left to learn. I didn't have a good idea of what separates a ... need to think about what each word means, and how to arrange them in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pick My Halloween Costume! Mm, crowdsourcing.

  

  feel like finding a new costume. Fortunately, I already have a bunch of ... ' Guild). Unfortunately, I'm hosed and indecisive. Conveniently, I have a blog (and a penchant for adverbs). This calls for crowdsourcing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  matched up based on answers to a questionnaire that you completed and we ... many FSILGs as strike your fancy. Find a community! There's definitely ... ? And also, how do I know where to find my host?" Your host should have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  years that this room has lived i've only been here to bear witness a ... right now i felt the need to do this because i will miss you, in a way ... anything else, is kind of a big deal to me this is just to say, i'm gonna

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  they can find out in a minute or so, before they pass you off to another ... assigned a dorm, a room, and possibly a roommate. Fast forward to today ... a chance to change dorms. And after everybody has been assigned to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  phone to look at the time, my heart skips a beat. Noon? Already?!? I ... needed to wash my hair, I decide to take a shower. Between that, getting ... hour? A friend asks me if I’m going to [annotation note="8.01 is

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  or something. Thirty minutes later, I returned to the kitchen to find a ... thing I said to the lab assistant was, "Can you give me a hand? I have no ... world is? Well, I will tell you. It is going to the Zesiger Center to go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  grandparents, but they're a little too touristy for a future Boston resident to pay $26 for a ride--after all, you can just get upperclassmen to to tell ... to be a half-mile walk out of your room and across the Harvard Bridge

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  identify them. It feels a lot like trying to untangle jewelry; I try to undo it, ruffle through my thoughts to find a thread I can tug on, but find ... have the patience to think on it again. I am going through a breakup

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT is live we're ready for you to begin

  

  for freshman admission to MIT. Many of you may have received a shiny ... process and it’s not too early to start. You’ll want to do a few ... available at MyMIT. But most importantly, remember to take a deep breath

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  ’t live in a vacuum, and it’s stressful to waste energy and time on ... were difficult, but it mattered also that I couldn't find the time to ... winter break and IAP knowing I needed to make a decision about which major

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  members of the former convene together to celebrate a 10M concentration of ... show off their unique cultures, get to know you, and help you get a ... has a group, and many will be there to talk to you about what they do

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  week (more on that soon) and am here to spotlight an incredible project a ... Plants” and “Eyewire: A Game to Map the Brain”) Images from the Spokes ... ? The idea had a long history. I had always noted, largely thanks to my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  find your UROP? A: Once you find your first UROP, it’s easy to find other opportunities. When I came to MIT, I really wanted to work on a ... dedicated to celebrating his incredible achievements. Albert Kwon, a Junior

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

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in ... [To be honest, I've had a little bit of writer's block lately, under ... to take a step back and look at my choices and think, "well planned

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  love the word nerd, I was quick to post a reply that said something about nerd pride and it being a badge of honor to be called a nerd in my book ... raising his own son to be a nerd. And Ann Hoevel trying to sort out the

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  you how a typical Thanksgiving dinner at my house. If you were to dine ... find that here. There are a lot of cultural affinity groups not only for ... interested in learning more about a specific culture as well. You find people

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  I wanted to write a comprehensive post on my experience with being a ... fact, I didn't even know where to start. My resume was honestly kind of a ... experience." Essentially, the career fair was a slight bust due to my lack of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the ... before weigh-in at the tournament in order to make a certain weight class ... point for it. And with no baskets, holes, or lines to guide a judge in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  , you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... were a professor asking this difficult question to a group of incoming MIT freshmen for them to answer in a single semester: “How would you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012