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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  ELLs take a lot of behind-the-scenes planning. ELLs are two ... of Effective Engineering Leaders.” Some examples from earlier this ... ELL, with most of the work happening in our weekly GEL 2 meetings on

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  Freshman year has come and gone; three more years of MIT separate me ... was the experience of burning out. Since the next three years won't take ... place several miles off the coast of Rhode Island and roughly three hours

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  a very high level of musicality and are full of virtuosic musicians ... of a mix of undergrads, grad students, and other people, some of whom go to other colleges or are friends of MIT members. Most of them are

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an ... her musical days were over. Courtesy of the HASS-D requirement, she ... of writing a musical - but, in her words, "it was sort of a pipe dream

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  preparing an audition piece or go through the torture of auditioning. Luckily ... group which did auditions in groups of 8 with no solos. There were also ... back to Tech,” one of their classic nerdy MIT songs (the most

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  Hi, prefrosh! I assume that the bulk of our audience right now is students who are thinking about joining the class of 2015, and/or those admitted who don't mind the expense of traveling to boston for the weekend in

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  around with in the back of my best friend Wes's Explorer, who started ... 're two people who are my age, both of whom I love and mean a lot to me, pledging to spend the rest of their lives together. And the last time I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  of summer '09, when I so intelligently decided to play Ultimate Frisbee ... home, bound for MIT. Yes, I am known for my impeccable sense of timing ... flip side of the victim-EMT dealio. Which means that I get to deck myself

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  double bacon, two apple ciders, tater tots, and an extra order of fries ... not as hot, no humidity, and a pleasant trickle of breeze (MIT is also ... , Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, iRobot, or any of those other "MIT summer job

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  easily frustrated by lack of progress, or by people who seem more content ... come up with a word to succinctly describe this aspect of my personality ... it's this part of my personality that's secretly behind my not

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  of those ways is to attend MIT. Another one of those ways is to visit ... MIT into that day as possible, but that's kind of what MIT is like, right? Cramming a ton of stuff into a really short time period? I have

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a kid out of a public high school in Salem OR, was the difference in ... day here over a year ago I've heard some of the most entertaining bits

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  blog. Some of my most prolific blogging streaks are when I'm actually the ... it comes out to 40 parts. 4 questions? I think not! So, instead of ... form of pictures that show colorful things that have been happening

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  three of the bloggers would drop off the face of the earth for a little ... think, "PSHHH." "Pshhhhh," I would think. "If I had the honor of being an ... 's been a month and a week since I last posted. And it's not for lack of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  until about a few weeks after I graduate. Also, I made fun of Ben for not ... entry, might I add, of like eight billion. Snively is totally making me ... never wanted to ask, like my favorite kind of chocolate bite-sized candy

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  for seniors) right now. My walls are an uninteresting shade of white. I ... like it. I have a view of the Media Lab and of the construction next to ... like five or six, but my suite is somewhat of an architectural anomaly

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  So yesterday I saw the first real snow of the season!! (come on, the ... was walking out of Lobby 7 after spending the afternoon teaching my last SAT class of the semester, and I suddenly saw specks of white fall from

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put ... being eaten by second-order ordinary differential equations instead of first-order ones. Woo! A sign of improvement! Anyway, here. Have

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  to grad school. You are not the same person you'll be at the end of ... education at MIT. I'm smart, okay, but I'm not, and never have been, one of ... pool. 2005: Excellent, and better than the majority of people who were

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  amassed a boatload of excuses so feel free to complain and I'll send you one back. I assume that most of you have taken the SATs and that you studied ... challenging, it was just a matter of learning the tricks and being consistent

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006