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  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  equipment to detect and do studies on extrasolar systems. A lot of extrasolar ... Staying up all night while staring up at the stars, eating loads of ... summer camp, right? Not quite, it was part of sophomore Shaye Storm

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  . Come on, join us and our chocolatey goodness. You know you want to. This ... and my oolong. Some of you called me out on my last entry, when I wrote ... stack of applications before me. To my right, out the window, I see big

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  On Sunday morning the Design/Build/Fly team rolled out of bed at 6:30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We ... literally on a wing and a prayer. Cue sighs of relief and thunderous applause

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  Having spent the majority of orientation meeting new people, staying up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a dangerous sense of nonchalance. Consequently, I spent the first month of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Admitted A forum for students who were admitted.

  

  Welcome to the Class of 2012! Feel free to use this forum to introduce yourselves to your future classmates, and Early Action admits, welcome your new classmates...

  • by Decisions
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Admitted A forum for students who were admitted.

  

  Welcome to the Class of 2011! Feel free to use this forum to introduce yourselves to your future classmates, and Early Action admits, welcome your new classmates...

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yet Another MIT 2010? Alex Doonesbury needs to choose a college.

  

  aren't made this way?). For the next week, you can vote on Alex ... Doonesbury is still deciding on colleges: RPI, Cornell, or MIT? Now, her ... band." So even if MIT "wins," she might not be MIT Class of 2010 after

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Activities Period. The month of January at MIT, and the most fun time to be on ... Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  decoding of the serial numbers on the packaging produced a phone number with ... than a U-haul on a highway pass made of biscotti and airplane glue ... : Cookies Version 2.0 on BMF Kitchen Critical analysis of our previous

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  named new dean of admissions March 24, 2008 Stuart Schmill SB '86 has been named MIT's next dean of admissions, Dean for Undergraduate ... 's interim director of admissions since last April, and Hastings said he has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  ’s fault.     Besides, I don’t want to look back on this period of my life and fixate on the soap-opera-ness of it all. Those moments have a ... ’re passed out on top of your bare mattress in the middle of packing up your

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  ’s more that, well, I just feel like a citizen of the world. One way of ... from. Another way of looking at it is that, almost anywhere I go, I think ... continents and are born on a third. Much fewer speak all the 3-4 languages of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  quiz bowl format features teams of students from each school competing on ... computers, somewhat simultaneously, both of which would serve him in good ... Brown scholarships. Scholars are selected on the basis of academic

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  within a taped square on the other side of the gym. I don’t suppose ... protein on your design project was 100mM instead of 100nM (something that I ... be more on top of my stuff now than I have been all semester. If

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  . I'm a coffee addict - I don't deny it), and of course, we took way too ... real-time fb 'like' off on the left) (I love these peeps) On the way ... Analysis of Algorithms) exam this past Thursday. Once it was over, my brain

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  , and Morgan doesn't want to "waste" grant money on a new ice machine when ... walking around -- probably some of the most brilliant people on the face of ... classes on my fall schedule right now, a HASS (21M.223, Folk Music of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  Over IAP, I joined the ranks of bloggers who have fallen into the black hole of fiber arts. (It could happen to you! It could happen to anyone!) At the end of last semester, the [annotation note="the undergrad

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  city planners and conduct research on the topics of their choice. These topics are compared and contrasted with characteristics of a U.S. city ... As an Urban Studies and Planning major, you can fulfill some of your

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  , dumping the gajillions of photos I shot before 3:30pm on Saturday. I can ... preserve some of this eye-candy. After the roof party on Baker, I ... there are lots of a capella groups on campus, so even with my subpar voice

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  I'm often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is ... this is helpful and answers lots of questions... Music. If you play music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006