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• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  say with complete accuracy, that I am flying over Elmira, NY at 24 ... Airport Looks Like...The Entire Time...) Teeming with basketball fans ... --ah, screw it. I cannot keep up with the Nicholas Kristof/Frank Bruni writing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Admissions Released Next Wednesday, 12/21

  

  emailing all applicants with their decisions, so you should expect to hear

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Invasion MIT! the long war of general jack

  

  ; And finally, outside the President's office, a portrait:   With

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  with some high school counselors who wanted to change parents ... Mexican food or hang out with my siblings. Life was good, but I was boxed in ... plagued me with these questions as I packed my suitcases to head to Boston

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Design in Boston [By Doug '14] Events that showcase the creative capital in and around Boston.

  

  .97 during IAP of 2011. I am currently more and more involved with classes that ... rather than attending it. I’ve had long talks with graphic designers ... here: http://designmuseumboston.org/2011/10/unite-space-with-a-soul-with

  • by ARTalk
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  internship with Max Planck Institute MIT-Germany Program 2011 Coming from ... your niche abroad begins with identifying these "target spots ... Frankfurt. I was looking for a lively, yet typically German, location with

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  with this message: Notice the comment about the Doonesbury girl. What ... can compete with the impressive list of fictional MIT alumni. But why ... the rest of the list didn't exist, we'd still win with Tony Stark alone

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  the image of Sputnik and talking with friends about math and economics and then woke up with a fever and a cough. The former lasted a few days ... double ear infection (—like a double rainbow! with ear infections instead

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT DDR Tetris on 6-foot LED Matrix "We did this because we were bored." -- Russell Cohen '13

  

  and Leah Alpert '13, with hardware design from their Course 2 floormate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  member of the Theta Xi fraternity. Last Friday, with Rush winding down, we ... MIT with all sorts of misconceptions about fraternities. We're all ... antagonistic towards women. We wear pink polos with popped collars

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  , combined with the stress from the rest of the week, was taking a toll on my ... didn't pick up. I panicked, and, with increasing nausea, realized that ... -of-the-year bond-with-the-freshmen picnic, and our living group photo for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  conversation with each teacher about a) if they would be willing to write you a ... find that having a thoughtful conversation with your teachers really helps in the process. Talking with your guidance counselor. We will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  of time to talk you right then, but you can always follow up with them later. Find people with MIT connections who work at companies that you are ... so that you can actually use it. The hard work comes with the first

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  with decided to go to different brokers. We looked at something like 10 ... -thoughts about the broker we were working with...because we sort of pulled up his ... take a leap of faith. After all, the contract is with the landlord, and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  Initiatives) matches MIT students with all-expenses paid internship and research ... -up. From mid-June to mid-August, I will be working with a professor in the ... ), helping with public facility projects like schools - which is a hugeeeee

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, strangers. A video, a song, and some doodles.

  

  I... have not been blogging lately. It's too bad, right? Sorry folks, I was just swamped with April, also known as Hell Month&reg. Please don't hate me! Anyway, I also realized it's been a while since I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 8, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT = The American Dream As usual...we procrastinate like mad before finals.

  

  My 5.60 Final is tomorrow at 9:00. In just about 18 hours, I will be DONE with my seventh semester at MIT! (I am currently trying to study for it but it's not working very well >____< But it's ok. Judging

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  with a painful lack of time. My friend's Facebook status currently reads ... -consuming, makes sense to me. I come up with little stories in my head about ammonia attacking carbonyls and bromine ions eloping away with stray hydrogens. There

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  that everyone is an incredibly awkward ugly nerd with acne and backne and ... true love (of the sort they make Disney movies about, albeit with ... Ebbel didn't only grow up to be a professional scientist with an MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  I should probably start out with this: oh hey, guys, I’m living in Boston this summer in my sorority house with a kickass river view of Boston ... to filling EVERY SINGLE MOMENT of EVERY SINGLE DAY with MAXIMUM

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010