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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

    Most of my entries center around things I’ve learned or experienced in my always interesting (if occasionally miserable) time trudging through the 4 years of masochistic glory that is…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT EECS students travel the world

  

  MISTI's eleven country programs offer internships in every MIT field (Physics, Mathematics, Urban Studies, etc). One of the most popular fields among our students, however, is Computer Science. In the…

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  Once upon a time, when you wanted to know something, you had to find out about it by going to a place, probably not the place you currently were, called…

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students. Hi! We have one week until the Early Action (EA) deadline, November 1. I'd like to…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  Aye, I’m back with more architecture adventures. I feel like all I ever blog about is architecture stuff – but who am I kidding – it literally consumes my life.…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  Influenza A, subtype H1N1 is the most famous swine flu virus. It is endemic to birds, humans, and pigs. The 2009 strain was officially a pandemic from June 2009 to…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  During a pset party last night, one of my hallmates called her own major, biology, ‘useless’. Shocked, I asked her to elaborate. She felt that the impact an individual biologist…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Renewable Energy in Spain

  

  Vivian Dien Class of 2013 Materials Science and Engineering w/ a minor in Energy Studies MIT-Spain Program 2011 My project was aimed at exploring different methods of solar cell characterization…

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  Silence. Stillness. As I lay on my side, feet curled into my chest, the only sounds I could hear were my rhythmic breathing, my steady heart beat, and a high-pitched…

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  Zombies. Sleepless, exhausted, drooling zombies that somehow believe they’re paying attention when in reality all they’re doing is scribbling incoherent pen-markings in every wild direction on their notebooks. You can…

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  ‘Sup, blogosphere? Nothing personal against this year’s prospective students, but I’ve had quite a few things unfold throughout this month, most of which has kept me incredibly busy. To put much…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  Hey all! It’s been a while. I’ve had a busy last month: 0. I said this post had nothing to do with Portal, but that’s sort of like stating, “I…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

          I was making the trek from East Campus to the Z-Center one day when my favorite song of the musical theatre genre came on (“Seasons of…

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  Every year, the MIT admissions staff reads tens of thousands of applications. Last year, it was 17,909 to be exact. And we don’t just see them once – there is…

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  The Class of 2015 list of 101 things to do before you graduate has challenges of varying degrees–I can proudly say I’ve already seen a concert in Boston (#37), but…

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  This blog post is about the following picture: In particular, notice: First and foremost, my super-fabulous high-heeled rainboots. I got them at the COOP on Monday after coveting them for…

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Art & Science in Paris

  

  Sara Ferry PhD 2015 Nuclear Science & Engineering internship with Le Laboratoire MIT-France Program 2009, 2010 & 2011 This past summer I worked at Le Laboratoire, an experimental art-science space in…

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Jump into a new comfort zone!

  

  Nina Sinatra Class of 2012 Materials Science & Engineering internship with Max Planck Institute MIT-Germany Program 2011 I worked for the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany.…

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  [by Emma Frank '15] Before I first visited MIT, I envisioned it as a sterile place. Labs stacked on top of classrooms and everything having its place and assigned number.…

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  2:47 am, better known 26:47. Three hours and 13 minutes before the day rolls over, by Random Hall Standard Time. Destiny, the southern half of the first floor of Random…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011