Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  offered to temper my usual Course VI nerditude by writing about her ... contamination of critical water sources. By providing the means to basic hygiene ... fun. We get to spray each other with water while prototyping our pump

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  NSBE MUSE Colloquium my first video

  

  . I promise to get a better camera for my future productions. ;-) ... Last week, I attended the MUSE Colloquium hosted by MIT’s NSBE ... money to help support their continued research. 1st Place won $500: 2nd

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  : What do you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by its diameter? A: Pumpkin pi. Don't forget to celebrate Pi Day (3 ... .14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510..................... How many digits do you know? More to come later today about how MIT

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  to talk personally with the professors. I was so excited by everyone ... birds called zebra finches, which are known for their ability to sing ... interest me without having to think about grades. I always look forward to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  Skloot I want to read at least 12 books by the end of the summer ... realism sort of fashion. But it took me a lot of thinking to even get to ... some point tried to get all of us to read Infinite Jest, which was his

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  different ways to use them. You will not get the answers only by guessing ... -surprised by how easy it was to give Up-Goer Five names to these groups of hard ... -problem-making-person did not plan for, or if no checking-person is able to get the right

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  difficult to come by in Boston; instead, you get bubble tea. I'm not ... experience that I never would've had without my family pushing me to get in the ... Francisco, just about to fly back to Boston to prepare for FAP (Freshman Arts

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  woah woah woah, hold on Fiona, its going to get a whole lot worse in the ... minutes total, no matter where I’m going: I get to leave later and not be ... inspired by Abby’s last post and am going to conclude this blog with a photo

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  to ask. Remember that the interview is not only a way for us to get to know you better, but also a way for you to get to know us better. Show up ... might add: please allow your interviewer some time to get back to you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  'm abrasive. Or harsh. Or difficult to get along with. And sometimes I wish I ... 'll admit I was a bit taken aback by his reply. While I was gathering up the courage to ask the question in the first place, I was already predicting

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to ... that we'd have to move out by November 25, two Wednesdays from now. This ... anything, trying to get things done but never really starting. In the process

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  tunnel near the esplanade." Nice. Clearly a plot by security trying to get ... guarded by police, redirecting anybody without a "pass" to a dirt trail. I ... equipped to hear. I looked at my watch. I was going to have to stand by this

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  one will get hurt." (By "no one," she meant me.) For all of you who ... ones in which I get to dispense laughs or in which I get a chance to ... Happy New Year to everyone! As you may have noticed I've been absent

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  keep my finger on the MIT pulse and chase people around campus to get ... get to explore MIT on behalf of all of you. I'm new around here and so ... office. My job, among other things, is to manage this site. I write stuff

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  group projects to encourage students to get their hands dirty and try ... There's a story my mother likes to tell about the time, soon after I ... teacher. Evidently, when my time to show-and-tell had arrived, I read aloud

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  application after application to get rejection after rejection, and the game i ... some excellent puzzles. it's written by teammate, and i know lots of people who helped write, and they've all been talking to me and asking me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  my freshman year. The next morning, I walked to MIT Medical to get ... this first week. I haven’t left my room except to get my second COVID ... food is still mostly up to par"]get dinner.[/annotation]Some things have

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  interesting in the schedule book, try to find it, and get distracted by ... & Comp homework out of the way before I get too tired to function. So ... . Drained by the calculations, which to me just looked like hieroglyphics

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  a student was unable to complete a course by the end of the semester ... opportunity to turn in late work by an assigned date. Upon completion of the ... 's most amazing ways to get involved with international development. Last

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  , and started her ascent to stardom by starring in the Abercrombie & ... to scan it in yourself, though. Submit your entry either by leaving a link to it in the comments, or by emailing me your file. My email address

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007