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• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  likely to be, or perhaps a sense that maybe it's best not to know. As for me, I'm trying to get everyone so familiar with what scientists and ... grad school someplace with palm trees, I spent 16 years at the Jet

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  to be true. Some truths are easy. For example, the addition of peanut ... be best to eat Oreos upon waking up for class. But if you slather peanut butter on them? That's a well-rounded, nutritious breakfast. See

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month ... hike was pretty typical for Washington trails. You hike from the forest ... , filled with grass and flowers. And eventually, when you climb high

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  Going Home We're halfway through MIT? o____o

  

  steam the rice off the stove, with the lid on for ~15 to 20 minutes. After ... Pan-Fried Chicken with Rice and Vegetables 3 chicken legs Rice ... vegetables) Garlic and onion for saute Oil (for saute and pan-frying the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 23, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever ... eerily simple. Make the following molecule with the given starting ... 've been blessed. Can't remember the reagents for the reaction you have in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  meditatively with my cup of tea and stare at the CITGO sign across in Boston ... preparing for all IAP--6.01, Intro to Electrical Engineering and Computer ... everything to shut down for two days, though my roommate and I determinedly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  !) and chatted with Serenella, the MIT-Italy coordinator for awhile. I ... knew would be due in a few days. I got my forms signed, chatted with the ... claimed to be any good at this updating thing, okay? (But for real, I have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  SWIMMING sign, run around mine and Sumi's sorority looking for clear packing ... while heading to Chinatown last weekend with my friends Sumi and Steph ... concrete pit filled with snow during the winter. Like this. So we’re just

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  At MIT, I've taught for two Splashes, three Sparks, and two HSSPs. My classes have evolved with my interests: Spark (Spring 2011): Rockets and ... MIT is not the only school with Splashes. It does have the biggest

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  just over four hours. It was awesome. Fun, intellectual, inspiring. In preparation for the meeting, we were all assigned the same three applications to ... " with the rest of the office is already pretty good. Go instinct! I was

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  be angry with us. I know that it was insulting and made an already ... sign that we don't care. While I understand how one could feel that way

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  .5 hours. Come up with ideas for 4.354, CMS.618, and 21A.508 final projects ... ."]soon[/annotation] as I know the guidelines for each. [annotation note="with hair ... sun is setting sooner and sooner. It's getting really cold, with the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  find something fun to do. With the great culture and food, Mom ... Vampire Slayer), after spending a wonderful long weekend in Boston with them ... Crossing, Boston's main shopping area (along with Newbury/Boylston and Quincy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  sure you have something fun planned for afterwards! I actually had an ... I'm finally done done done with the MCAT, and my summer has ... , trying out my new bike, spending time with friends, and watching a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  program for his junior year that would allow him to merge the arts with his ... curriculum filled with theater, drawing, and jazz would help him to focus on the academics that he doesn”t feel much affinity for otherwise. It was a

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  face, he truly cares about movies, and I usually agree with his reviews ... subtle ideas for science fiction movies is invaded in this film by an ... " column--and guess who he asked for scientific advice. Seeking an expert

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  -hour-long conversations with people I barely knew. It was awesome. I found a UROP for next ... to make changes to be happy with your situation. I think it helps a lot ... out of it sometimes isn’t a sign of failure or personal mismanagement. I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  behind schedule.) Now Playing: Night Changes by One Direction I turn ... surprisingly common behavior for lots of people. I couldn’t, really, tell you why ... you ought to be.  For the past few years, birthdays have also just been

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  closed my eyes for a moment and leaned my head back. I opened them again ... is the same from the top? Don't you know the building won't change you ... Seven for the first time. Enlightened. Inspired. Perhaps more insightful

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello world. All your blog are belong to me.

  

  , and I am nothing if not Serious - is Admissions Counselor for Web ... the digital ooze, my job is to help make the Internet go for the ... with mines - I would say that I leverage social software to facilitate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2009