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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  semester is starting to heat up and being off P/NR is mildly terrifying. I ... thing. We were going to take it back to campus, but we ended up eating it ... campus. Central Square was lit up and alive. We stopped at Starbucks and I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  Here’s what I woke up to on Friday morning: massive snowflakes ... , from the ground up to the trees and around again. The next morning it was ... took them with us to meet up with Ami G. ‘14 MEng ‘16 (like me! but she

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  to be when I grew up. So I guess some thinking about the future. But ... write-ups effectively. I want to be a master of communication, and I feel ... heavier course loads as necessary. It took giving up some clubs and extra

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  degrees and sunny. That basically sums up my prior experience with ... dropped 30 degrees. T--h--i--r--t--y d--e--g--r--e--e--s. Up until this ... clothes This past Wednesday it started heating back up again. I tucked away

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  's success in avoiding a major recall. We had 70 minutes to come up with a ... What’s Up” and laid back in his chair with his feet on the table. With ... brought up? And all this has to happen in parallel with talking to the

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  all of Monday night from 8pm to 2am studying. I woke up promptly at 7 ... down everything I knew, tried different things, and came up with what I ... about the idea of being the head engineer and running up to my boss after

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  out and growing up and being on your own. Academically, first semester ... there for me. But the idea of growing up and changing and moving out inherently means giving up a little of that, and being ready to support

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  ever taking extra time to do the problem again on my own. I ended up no ... -reading the textbook chapters. Up to that point my grades were flawless, and I ... . Nonetheless, I kept up my near-perfect homework, lab, and attendance grades

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  home in LA, we were talking about how we wanted to one-up it. The next ... decided to clean up the toilet, which was also a photoshoot on its own, with ... up pretty much all my time. What classes are you taking this semester

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  into our Early Action process. We will accept up to November test scores for Early Action, and up to January test scores for Regular Action. Q ... Bridge application shown up on my MyMIT tracking page? A: Colleges only just received

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  .” I’m still not sure whether he made that up or not. Math majors are like that. From here, we could have given up. We could have chuckled ... ) up a general interface for dealing with sets: I chose to define a card

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  , and I envision swarms of anxious seniors staying up at night over one ... his community. There is a also girl from Hong Kong whose face lights up ... first time I stayed up talking until 4 am even though I had an early start

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  to be a Harvard Ph.D student this year, and we agreed to meet up and ... finger and struck up a conversation - at work, wandering Third Street ... Electric Vehicle Team. Afterward we exchanged emails, and ended up

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  us out of the country, setting up bank accounts, trying to register new SIM cards, making arrangements so that we don’t end up living in a box ... walked up and introduced me to the speaker, his colleague. He said, “this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  ’s inevitable that you’ll have a lot to catch up on. I’ll start here: Hi, I ... few months to finish up work on some papers, and started my postdoctoral ... up about our engagement on the blogs within about half an hour, because

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  two week reprieve from all responsibility, I had the chance to meet up ... all day to make up for the noticeable absence of air conditioning. Our ... is so conveniently located more than makes up for the little quirks and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  Redmond, WA And what are you up to? Product mechanical engineer intern at ... , trying to wrap up the current project and then moving onto the next one ... sweet. What are you up to for the rest of the summer? I’m working on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  made up of shops that look onto the streets, small shops always abuzz ... verify it. But tweets about the bomb were popping up. Facebook and BBM ... with whom to catch up. But in the face of this blast, I seemed to float

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! This is the result when you look me up on the ... near there. One longish tube journey later, I showed up half an hour ... , and glanced up at me with a little twinkle in his eye. Interviewer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  the authority to open up the wall whenever he likes. It also means that ... from Building 14 caught up with us. They had heard the exchange, and the ... PROJECT!” Lucas and I walked up the stairs into Walker Memorial. I said

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014