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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  about, that we easily forget, that comprise the in-between points of time and space. But thanks to modern technology (particularly, in this case, Google photos and Snapchat) the random moments of daily life can be more

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  a few different things in my already congested brain. One, things are ... mind had ran thought marathons of all kind. It was in that auditorium ... into words, I had slowly become someone who wrote with reception in mind

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  write something about the crisis in Ukraine, and stuff that I’ve been ... don’t have a lot of family or friends in Ukraine or Russia, so I won ... were made, some for Ukrainian students in particular and some for any

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  In 1966, B. Alden Thresher, an economist and the first ever Director ... Stu, and on many other people in our office too. The book has been out ... reason why all of us entered this profession in the first place: the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  coolest of cool tech companies, Google. "In the interview, they asked me ... Hollis teen is a Presidential Scholar with a summer job at Google ... : Lawrence Academy senior Quentin Smith works on an independent project in his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  errors I see are not in the essay portion. People are pretty good about using spell check for that. More often, I see spelling errors in the ... short answer essays. So be careful in these sections, too! What happens

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  time dilation to the Infinite, and beyond

  

  : I am invulnerable to alarms in the morning, no matter how loud or ... want to admit how many first period tardies I had in my senior year of ... : a 9am class begins at 9:05 and ends at 9:55). In theory, this is

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  serious), an MIT junior (majoring in math, of course), and a participant this year in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange program. Possibly due to his ... , octagenarian professor on paper, but in real life, he's a fun-loving guy with an

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  in, about what kind of company culture I like (hint: Google is awesome ... If you're looking for an in-depth view of Career Fair and all the vast opportunities that it offers MIT students, then you're in the wrong

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  cells exchange their water in the matter of milliseconds. Proof?" The Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out of cells? 1:31 am: I ... : these physicists have modeled some perfectly smooth aquaporins in a vacuum

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  Octopus, Apocalypse or Iron Man, we were always left in awe. In this piece ... question. New York Apartments To Finally Be Hospitable Having lived in the ... /size/neighbourhood trade-off that living in a city brings. In this article, the Media Lab

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  folder of resumes in the hopes of getting a dream job. There are always plenty of dreams in attendance. Check your “most visited” website stats: Google ... from Facebook. A Dropbox t-shirt. Bright Google sunglasses. You are now a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  that so it's not really reflected in my Google Calendar anymore. But it ... while I'm not the most organized person in the world, I thought it'd be ... progress in my life. Progress tracking is a huge part of my life. I really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  roommates (Jeanne '13) discovered that she'd be hosting a prefrosh. In quick succession, her Facebook status was updated, Google-stalking was initiated, and ... was suitably impressed by our vanilla-scented plug-in air freshener

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  scrambling to do well in all of your classes while not losing your sanity. It ... came to a close, I packed up all of my belongings in under 3 hrs, and ... colorful checkered blanket in my backyard, diligently flicking ants out of my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... ,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive   If you're interested in ... out this talk he gave for Authors@Google promoting his book, The Brief

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holmstrom, et al.

  

  to take in life, and how we should do things that we like, not ... about research he said, "The one thing all the sciences have in common is ... years ago." Heh. While googling Holmstrom for this entry, I found this

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  tarp in the dregs of Chinatown, torrents of rain flushing from the sky ... waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy ... 've bought cursory custard buns and huddled in a cafeteria-style bakery under a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  As I write this, droves of MIT students, sharply dressed in suits ... Solutions & Technologies US Patent and Trademark Office Google Los ... are popular, but so are opportunities in finance, the federal government

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  " works really well in the Google search form. In googling, we managed ... like the professionals do on how to spend a summer in Boston. Now first ... random T-Stop and just seeing what was in the area. Also, another big

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005