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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  instant's action at the edge of the universe? What is just beyond that ... , but an infinite series of universes expanding into one another, all at ... editor at The Atlantic and one of my favorite bloggers - in which he quotes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics at Yale (CUWPY). So, instead of ... like being fitted with a new pair of arms. The flash went off constantly ... downtown parts of New Haven, but are also central to the Yale campus. Walking

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  invented at MIT to teach the fundamentals of how to program. The first class ... happens to be the official name of the course. The class has been offered ... place in the new curriculum, so this is the last term that it was offered

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  new bags of supplies when necessary. At one point, we ran out of ... giddy, I sent a flurry of e-mails to New House exec, to New House as a ... anticipated) I had a list of names and numbers of people who had offered to help

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  and tweet at least five times a day to project some kind of image. I ... . Her parents want her to go abroad to the University of Paris. She’s not ... ’s a lot of opportunity at MIT to open up and explore things you haven

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  's a time for new friends and new experiences and new places. at the same ... and new york and DC and colorado. there's an intimacy, here, too, that ... up and sending each other snapchats of food and scenery. so i'm at

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  helped form the foundation of new, healthier habits. Waking up at the same ... you but kind of hard to start doing. At the beginning of the summer, I ... attempted to start writing a novel at the beginning of the summer, before

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  continued schooling at a high school or university other than MIT). Come up ... into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  discussion. And at the Expo booth, he offered me to try three of the labs! I ... . This post is just a fraction of the fascinating information I absorbed at ... compilation of initiatives to transform teaching and learning at MIT. And if you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  to hold so much life at once. It can be the kind of quiet that invites ... with us at lunch, how Deans of DSL and MIT psychiatrists shed their roles ... This week, I spent four days and three night at the Salvation Army

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  Library in New York, and then brings thousands of sketchbooks to six other ... decided a trip northbound through upstate New York to Niagara Falls and into ... of faces and experiences makes it all worthwhile. * Came home to find

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  of the New Yorker. I landed in LAX around 11:30AM PT and picked up my ... ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;The next morning I woke up at 6AM and began a full day of school visits. How ... students to take many of their upper level courses at a local community

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  . 71. At the same time that I applaud Tokyo for its number of public ... big university in Tokyo that's pretty famous for taking a lot of foreign ... of study in that university (this test is usually later, in February or

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  lasts for a week. Of course, I always end up signing up at the last minute ... distance. Though I had already completed the swim test at the beginning of my ... (P.E.) “points,” then you won’t receive an MIT diploma. Harsh, eh? That

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  University in 2000 as a project of Hillel at Stanford; since then, it has ... esteem,” he adds. I am so excited to be a part of this new program at MIT ... opportunity to just have fun. Students at MIT have launched Camp Kesem, or Camp

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  Photographic Resource Center (PRC) at Boston University. This is *the* place for ... Project Lab. From 1965, Minor White (a close friend of Ansel Adams) taught at MIT’s Visual Arts Program until his death in 1976. White was

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  're really good at shooting (we've won the national championship in pistol 2 of ... sons Hank and Hal Steinbrenner, has owned the New York Yankees since 1973 ... thought I'd take a look back at MIT athletes who have participated in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  college. I happen to fit both of those descriptions, so I (who happened to be in New York with high school friends for the weekend; more on this ... 'm a finalist. A lot of the time I'm not very serious - but I'm serious

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  wonderful exchange student from the University of Cambridge, Rob. An ... whole year of change and new experiences. As someone who averages 15 ... always there to clear up our many, many, misconceptions of all things

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  exactly what happened in the first moments of the universe. And word on the ... of your time at MIT, and for working towards completion of your Physics ... at the idea of having to discuss that academic disaster with the recent

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014