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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It ... the back of a stranger’s car at the crack of dawn on New Year’s Day. We ... program, supervise a group of postdocs and students, and serve on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  , we’re working on an individual paper about an organization of our ... on Fridays, so it’s also a nice end-of-the-week session because the last thing I want after a week of lectures is a lecture on “how to be a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  moved and where I spent the first week of the new year. As we drove over a set of railroad tracks on the way to his house, he said, "And this on ... Juice is amazing, my dog's sitting on my left foot...") and not in any way

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  name of any good-looking, financially-stable male celebrity, I’ve spent a good chunk of time pondering my idea of love.   For me, love is ... Continued reflections on love at the Institvte (and really just love

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  ; some new ones will be added. We've hired some student "experts" on ... freshman here at MIT now, although I have no way of proving that. The irony ... something you do for the pleasure of it." That question, on the MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  their far too clunky suitcases onto the airport shuttle, I feel a pang of regret wash over me. New waves of kiddos are coming in to make MIT their ... I eventually tire and leave them and join new things in hopes of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  signal. PWM is a way of varying a signal from completely on to completely ... way through a project like this. Those of you that know basic ... go out. On the one end, DMX travels on top of a protocol RS-485. That

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  Hi Everyone, I was just taking a look at some of the questions on ... new version of my application, or all new essays? No. You do not need ... . It continues to be a great pool of motivated and successful students

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  get my heart broken in new ways. I didn't know I needed these things ... if I have other good reasons to work on them. It means that if I run ... 't want anymore. And the only way I can get rid of this nagging pain and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  towards society's good… I cannot. Sure, the members of the Underwater ... On Friday, October 24, the Edgerton Center at MIT organized an on-campus premiere of the documentary Underwater Dreams. The film follows the journey

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  tons of good applications. If you've ever had an MRI, congratulations ... Quick, what does an atom bomb, the plural form of a famous Texas ... 're pretty good at reading titles. If you guessed I'll be working at Los Alamos

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  substantial amount of college essays, but I have a couple things to say on the ... . If you can find someone like that for you, you're gold. 3) A good way ... . Everyone is going to have an opinion on your choice of topic, or your tone

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  inevitably fell out and started on our different paths. In my freshman year of ... ="A little brave to post this on a public platform where any of them can read ... , accountable way. This is a good thing to do."]discussing all the things we didn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  are.) Anyway, the point of all this is that I had a really good meeting today with one of my favorite professors, Carlos Lois. (The good thing ... , particularly one with a large population of graduate students, means that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  , on making paradise for CPW; or spring break adventures; or the way that ... takes your hand and dances. You'd get to come along on my adventures. The ... 's just a place. Not all adventures are good. No place is a paradise. The

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  car trapped on the road in 8 degree weather because there's 4 inches of ... Boston hot on the heels of a long, terrible night of pseudopacking. Packing ... one of those highway robbery places you see on billboards like 'Idaho

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  , and it is a good feeling. I plan on attending the Houston MIT Class of ... here in Texas - people up north are yankees, and people who live on the ... student. Whatever that terrifying cluster of words means.  Basically, many

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  towards the advancement of underserved communities. Alia Whitney-Johnson, a ... teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... feeling of distance and to give something more than my fundraising letter

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  for a part of a second.  There are lights on the left and right sides of the gameboard that go on when Alex finishes.  We also practised ... new MIT Solar Car, so I'm not actually sure being on Jeopardy! even

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  the third quarter of my sophomore year of high school working on MIT ... seattle’ is engraved on every Zune) (this part’s not) At the end of the ... (Boston’s subway) on my way home from the office, at about 10PM. However

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010