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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  underwater; I've been helping my friend edit his personal statements for grad ... progress. We expect that this will turn into a senior thesis (in physics) for ... search for transiting exoplanets pushes CCD instrumentation to its

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  two days prior, when I flew back from San Francisco to Boston for just a ... minutes for a domestic flight – not bad, right? Well, it turns out that ... number of times the self check-in has actually worked for me with this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  's giving was even featured on the MIT homepage for today, which is how you ... Julie Gerberding and Compton lecturer Tom Brokaw, for example. We've also hosted the infamous Ollie Smoot '62 (for a lecture about Smoot's Ear

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  for a brief moment over the summer i think i truly believed that i ... 't care much for. the software i did was pretty interesting. i liked the ... actually pretty cool and felt like a smaller seattle for the weekend i was

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  actually do exist! They’re out there! For you and you and you... As the sun ... was the fifth person in line (pretty good for an amateur like myself ... keep his hair on fleek and gives great hugs. And yes, I asked for you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  time for a summer update. i'm in seattle! again! this time i ... 's a time for new friends and new experiences and new places. at the same ... -night craving and wandered to safeway for ice cream, where we discovered that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  but you never believe, you’re playing for the big leagues now. You can ... just waiting for me to bring him home. He keeps a very watchful eye as I ... was almost more well known for the number of wives he had (five!) and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  search of a bakery for a well-deserved snack. As you’re wandering through ... for something sweet. However, for such a quaint little bakery, there ... as fast as possible, enjoying the flavor for a second and moving on to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  (Looking for a CPW Post? Read Rachel's! Looking for retreat ... substitution, or u-substitution, in that monthly amounts are probably good for ... facilitators. This is a great opportunity for first-year students to get away

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  interns for the summer, I was all like, “yay! I will not be the least ... , thanks for beating me senseless with unintuitive C optimization hacks and ... hall in East Campus for all four years, including preorientation, and two

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  students struggling to graduate on time for the dumbest possible reasons ... 't count toward the requirement they thought it did. One alum I worked for ... , or get nonexistent triple majors, or...for fun. (There's no credit

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  Howdy folks. It's freebie time - for the 99.9% of you readers who don ... you a secret because I have that much love for you all - I was really ... for the entire lecture and he has cookies at office hours. If that doesn

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  over 50 applications for just a few available spots. The vast majority ... prematurely for them." Yep.  However, as with our undergraduate applications, the cruel difficulty of the decisions is no excuse for not making

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  is an amazing, world-changing place. But it's not for everyone ... quite successful, and I applaud them for it! Let me tell you a bit about ... 't want to go to MIT, despite the nice scholarship thrown in for good

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  it nearly impossible for me to type anything at all ever. Getting ... 's being in lab all the time for my UROP and working at the Senior Haus front ... , The Hip Show for Hip Kids. It was on the obesity epidemic in America. It

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  they closed up for the day. Together we played with different installers ... without incidence. For the summer I learned to use Octave. Then I finish a ... separate instances in which I was booted for violation of some security or

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  to study. MIT had always kind of been that school for me but since I ... place for me and all that stuff, but I had made the first step. Part of ... incredible and humbling opportunity to interview for MIT. Now, I'm not sure

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  picturesque, and fun to play with (or in), it even can serve as a metaphor for ... that right: rain. For a variety of reasons, this made me less than happy ... interest of full disclosure, I should point out (for the parents' sake, if

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  opportunity for a more personal admissions process, that, after all, shouldn ... and interesting people who want to go to MIT. For me, it's a fun and ... the privilege to interview. OK, you are probably scheduled for an

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  minors in Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, must be for having not one ... on biology-related projects at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical ... has an incredible amount of passion for research and loves that at MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006