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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  made online as a prefrosh even before CPW, thanks to the new admissions ... , classes, and research. Instead of buying new gadgets, I would save up my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  Physics of Living Systems in brand new Technology Square next to MIT in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  of New House + McCormick. I grew up in Singapore and London, which have ... probing the galactic magnetic field strength using pulsars, and my new

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  (yay!) as well as new friends. After my radio astro talk, I talked for ... time to leave. The next week (last week) I was in New Mexico (more on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  active members. MIT QSN is a relatively new group on campus; some of the ... grad students and postdocs who teach me new things every day. And ask me

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  worried." "The New York Times is like the Yankees.  Lots of people hate ... tomorrow's March 1st.  New in-flight magazines!" "All politicians bullsh

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this winter. TBS’s new reality show King of the Nerds features two people from ... close and New Texas (Destiny) was mostly Texans. He studied Brain and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  I'm now halfway through my undergraduate career at MIT, which means that there are new factors informing my class choices: 1) I only have ... a leadership summit in New York (hosted by Google). More about that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  , New Enterprises. The class is primarily MBA students, but as I learned ... $370,000 for our new shirts, even getting some cool press. I did end up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  brand-new ELL. It’s fun because we get to think outside of the box and try ... time pressure, new leadership; this time, we were breaking all the rules

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  with trash: At our third session at at A New Day Cambodia, the team of ... feedback. Photo: Carolina Kaelin   Students at A New Day Cambodia

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  I'm not new to the blogs (though we do have some wicked bloggers up in the 'sphere nowadays), but my recent, unintended hiatus might have ... 'd like you to meet someone new, though -- This is my gigantic freshman

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  a mentor for every single intern to ease the transition into this new ... . While I dove into my project with a new vision to guide me, my supervisor

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  at a rural but well-resourced public high school in New Hampshire. I ... less because they were in New England, had good names, I hadn't hated

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  try something new, but it was hard to keep up with those assignments on ... new for me, my two lecturers - Professors Jacks and Sive - are

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  qualified for nationals after placing fourth in New England, while the men ... the guys team raced (they got 12th! first New England team!): This is

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  't all bad, however; I got to hop on my shiny new bicycle (thanks ... time on the new bike before the cold really sets in, I was moderately

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  - carefree, fearless, intoxicated by the New Zealand beauty that surrounded me ... , noting my new purple mustache, as well as my sticky, still-dripping fingers

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

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

  

  to the Green Room, changed clothes, and he/she and two new contestants ... new MIT Solar Car, so I'm not actually sure being on Jeopardy! even

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

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  . I've lived on the same street in suburban New Jersey for my entire ... the wall as we painted what would become my new room. Sure, technically

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009