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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  artificial) - think of the scripted conversations you have with recruiters over ... in Yosemite this summer. While cragging with some friendly strangers ... big. Still, engineering is engineering, and I worked with the same

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  summer. I hopped on the bike with the following points in mind: The last ... control of the bike and slammed head-first into a bush), With a lot of ... fiddle with changing the gear on the bike. Eventually I had such bad nausea

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  apartment complex. With that in mind: To schedule my interview, I got in touch with my EC and we agreed to meet at his office. He works out in one ... early with one of my best friends (who lives near Canary Wharf) and we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  ourselves with is the existential crisis of some whiteness. But when something ... disconcerting in its unfamiliarity. Upon closer introspection, I concluded, with ... normal. It wasn’t until it all dissipated with the last flourish of my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  I do okay - I've been really nervous! But I am taking it with my good ... than 3.022, I am working on my management minor with 15.812 and 15 ... the semester.  My accounting professor even has lunches with his

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  with mashed potatoes, roasted vegetables (brussels sprouts, bell peppers ... rest of the ceremony totally distracted with assembling it. After my ... A shirt showing people high-fiving, with the caption "Asymptotic High

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  with it) -- 1. ReMOVE the magazine. RePLACE the magazine. Each class ... with a very familiar soundtrack: my brain knows what's coming up, it has ... usual routines with reckless abandon in a desperate attempt to hold too

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  before. A few weeks ago, I agreed to teach a class with my friend Davie '12 ... process of "WHAT???? HOW DID SOMEONE EVEN COME UP WITH THIS???"-->"I KNOW ... techniques you used / what you said / how you dealt with topics that you really

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

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  your rank list because if you do not match with any school on December 2nd, we will simply email you instructions with how to roll over into ... you are a QB applicant, along with full name and date of birth on the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  totally arbitrary order, starting with number 2. My first exposure to Rocky ... , differential equations, and I was hanging out with one of the campus FOCUS ... wedges of cheese, with a small hole cut into each near the top center

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  whipped up sign-up sheets for all our hall members to help with cooking ... games and animals for the kids to play with outside. Our Graduate Resident ... wack our friend Austin with pool noodles. Everyone crowded around baby

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  company, get married with 2.3 children and get a house without a white ... design has always interested me - whenever Apple came out with a new product, my favorite part was the product design videos they released with

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  -picking note sessions. Maybe one day I’ll share the actual content with you, but ... , Mom came home and held out a pillowcase. It was light blue with hot air ... a tech startup with a pretty amazing founder/CEO named Hardi Meybaum

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  of the project with some amazingly driven and hardworking individuals ... a member of tissue culture team, has helped me so much with catching up with the team’s progress (since I came back from England after the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  was put in a room with a small number of very smart grad students and a ... faced with this kind of problem: we improvised. My program is usually two ... . Civic works with communities to collaboratively create, design, deploy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  biases along with Daniel Kahneman) asked 24 of their colleagues ... professors at each school to find out which ones I might want to work with, but I hadn't visited them or anything (with the obvious exception of

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  /UPPER BODY STRENGTH!) I also don't have the greatest track record with climbing ... encounter with the wall earlier that week, HAD to bring up that by some FREAK ... conversation with Chris. 2. Chris D., a staff member of the wall and fellow

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  .06 instead of 7.05. Oops. I retreated with my freshly free hour and a bagel ... the piano practice rooms, with big desks and a huge window looking out ... up doing with my life. 18.03: Differential Equations I no

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  after a while, you even start to identify with it. When I told my dad how ... , with small reminders of things that happened during the first two years ... Jobs. In the beaver's right hand is a candle with a screw jutting out

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  (with its own serious Internet addiction problem to tackle), but it is also a country with such distinct and concentrated culture that upon ... a Korean bathhouse. And it is my encounter with the jimjilbang that

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012