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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  Planetary Sciences was organizing a viewing outside on Kresge with telescopes ... able to take pictures of the Sun with my phone camera. Still too much light. I fiddled around with the ISO and the aperture until I snapped a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  back to those at a later time with more of an open mind. After delving ...  people were unhappy with this decision. I freaked out a bit that day. I began ... phone interview with them. (Funny enough, they’re in MacGregor in the fall

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  being added next to my name—from East Campus. May show up to work with ... in public, or playing with cats. It’s a very special place and the ... , which, you know, overflow with moneyed people who judge you based on what

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  's do something about that. Tonight". So I got together with my friend ... homeless people in Boston this Thanksgiving. We partnered with a homeless ... . And we wanted to provide their 30 homeless youth with warm clothing for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  HASS. *** The week begins on a sleepy Monday with an 11 am discussion ... educational activities. Then Tuesday starts with a 10 am monstrously early ... lectures with an excellent professor and engaged students. The instructor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  with Writing to form CMS/W, which includes the Science Writing program ... students with tools to effectively communicate their own work and research to ... science writer (among other things). I've reproduced his post (with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  competitive industry with ultra-low margins. It would be easier to come up with ... allows international customers to pay with their native debit or credit

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  has been most mornings, it is very different from Boston. With this ... us. We are flying back from Thanksgiving break with my family in Myrtle ... probably wouldn’t recognize and who might be in 7.06 lecture with me. There

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  , played with her for a bit, and went back to sleep for a few hours. At 9am ... met with a counselor to talk about life. It's a nice break to go there and talk about things, and how to cope with the pressure that is MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  year to share with you. The pumpkin patch is handblown gradually over ... completely unrelated footage from one morning last October of me playing with Ragnar, my friend Allison C. '14's cat, on Loop, with a spider named Spooky

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  the blogs, for the office. And I'm still helping Kris out with them and ... recruitment and evaluation of students with exceptional academic and technical ... ). I have been and will be involved with many different nerdy events

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  corridors that do happen to be indoors are famous and steeped with historical ... -nighter working on a final paper. Some of the other old friends I caught up with are ... with love, Allan

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  event filled with our favorite foods, faculty, staff, random graduate ... Kerry N. '14 Zucchini Casserole by Jes P. '15 with help from Sarah W ... ! And Chris Peterson was there!! I invited him to hang out with the crazy

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  Spring weather. What I found was a wonderful book filled with useful tips ... and her new poem Ghost Ship is a great example why.   And with that I'll finish with asking you guys a simple question, what's making

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  text from the image entirely, or replace it with its translation in a different language, or replace it with whatever text you desire. There's even ... this image processing in real time, with no discernible lag or delay. It

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  the next few days. We’ve been working with our fantastic Educational ... Chorallaries, MIT’s oldest co-ed a capella group. (They are the group I sang with ... Tech Incubator with fellow admits from Long Island. Tuesday From

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  , final grades are coming out, with little "P" for Passes appearing on ... UROP, and she replied with a chuckle, "I see your handwriting hasn ... while to figure out which activities you want to stick with and which you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  . However, I also know that many of you will be very busy with your academics ... answers to these questions with the comparative free time you may have during the summer, so I wanted to share these with you. When and how you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  interview with the Graphics Editor, I knew I had a new goal to join the Times ... this past spring when the Times came to campus to recruit. With a stroke ... as possible before returning to the real world. I'm living with three

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  signed up for the latter along with half of MIT, because how could anyone ... -in-western-culture Medieval texts - with a Medievalist. In the original Middle English. If I ... materials with him everywhere he goes. "Wait here!" he said, and disappeared

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013