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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  about 18 months. So today, I attended an info session on the Masters of Engineering in Biological Engineering. A Masters of Engineering is a 5th year ... yes and no. For example, I've often heard of the stigma that those

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round what do you get when you cross the flinstones with public transportation?

  

  funded by the Berwick Institute. One of the organizers of the project is an ... they've done a lot of work with the project and hope to have the ... about innovative and creative ways to address some of the problems facing

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  to catch up with many old friends, and of course to see my old roommate tie the knot. If you're wondering what a random sampling of MIT alums 3 ... member of the Foreign Languages & Literatures (Chinese) faculty and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  applications to fill out. Then, of course, there are regular applications to ... -Help portion of your financial aid, at least at MIT) while at the same time ... to win some. When I was in my last year of high school, I was pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  picked and pruned at what would make me seem most interesting, most full-of ... I wanted to go, I convinced myself I would miss most of my shots so ... the absolute freedom of just being able to paint an institute wall, or

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  night, i ate dinner at et, one of the independent living groups in mit. i ... steak in the shape of mettaton's face, dog salad, instant noodles, popato ... square. i have fond memories of eating at gyukaku with a friend group from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  something along the lines of, "Oh, you know. Gonna roam around Boston :)" as ... out of using one in the first place. I didn't worry about perfect lines ...  from a fire hose—the sheer number of opportunities and rigor of our

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  artifacts of reality crashing to the floor. If it was a creature, it would ... page. For most MIT bloggers, that change is documented, like dozens of ... of timestamped posts immortalized on the internet. Because of this, I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  ’s family home in New Jersey. It was just the two of us. We’d been dating for ... apocalyptic event either of us had ever experienced. I knew the auction was ... any of those editors. They took my manuscript to acquisitions meetings

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  technique of choice is to delete files en mass and never look back. It is also ... has led to hundreds of notes to delete, and I thought I'd share some particularly insightful ones with y'all. I. Little Bit of Everything  

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  been one of my favorite Christmas songs. You can read the lyrics here. Let me get this out of the way, first: I think this cover isn't great. I ... doing badly. This is one of those quotes that works better without context

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  dorm life and all of that. TLDR: I did continuous open recruitment for ... forth between having joined a sorority. I get upset because of the archaic ... frats and srats, where frats have seemingly boatloads of money to spend on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  the draft saved in a folder outside of the vortex folder on my desktop that’s named desktop, that just contains folder versions of my old ... in my mind, DOOM was a myth. DOOM was an idea. DOOM was one of those

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  right now and then come back. In celebration of evermore as well as the ... and go to plenty of parties in college.   gold rush But I don ... student who dreams of the same elite university half the school is applying

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  ’s a college thing but part of me feels like I’ve gotten away with ... ’m in Cambridge, reeling with a move cross-country and the start of the ... whirlwind of finding an apartment in Boston. No free-food events, but plenty

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  , everything was new, from the campus to the classes to the experience of living ... orientation, and I felt [annotation note="I was older than most of the other ... want one more year of Baker breakfasts with the boys and I want to start

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  about it, he was going to do a slight analog of the quiz called the Keys 2 ... : Gryffindor + INFJ End of Freshman IAP: Gryffindor + ENFP End of Freshman Year ... 'll wholeheartedly admit that I took a lot of pride in being an INFJ just for the sake

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since ... opportunities is much smaller. The program lasts a relatively short amount of time ... of 9 externs at Brain Power, 3 in Web Development, 3 in Product

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  quantitative measures of growth. I first realized my tendency to quantify at the end of last semester. One of my final assignments in a literature class ... . Scrutinize a block of imagery for theme and characterization? No problem

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a ... lot of ppl are concerned about choosing MIT due to it being more ... field, because STEM is what consumed most of our classes and time and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019