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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  serves me correctly, the things you're supposed to do are along the lines ... excursion to Garment District. Well, anyway, I remember that one is "get ... definitely going to get an entry on it in the near future. 9. I mentioned the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  impossible for me to get something to do over the summer. I remember thinking ... I’ll procrastinate on doing work if it means getting to spend a couple ... touch with my friends, or about getting to do puzzles and play board games

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  I have known for some time that my approach to things can be unconventional.  You don't have to look any further than how I parent to really get ... ,  in favor of blank pages that forced them to create their own images

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  month reading and crafting great summaries of your applications, and now ... , and then have a discussion about that applicant. Things are by consensus ... discussion without needing to resort to a formal "vote." In the very rare

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  :30 - normally, I end up getting to campus a half-hour or fifteen minutes early. My ... weekly PSet for my two courses. I try to get at least a problem done while ... whole new alternative approach that we are learning to tackling seemingly

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  surprised by how quickly my students caught on to code. These were students ... , accented by sightseeing of seven of the city’s “secrets” from an Argentinian ... old storefronts by the main square. We communicated through a plethora

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  , procrastinating on pre-summer Design/Build/Fly lab cleanup by writing this blog post ... my total time in college is coming to an end. I suppose this is supposed to be one of those posts where I talk about how much I've grown over

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? Your name in lights.

  

  Did you ever try to call in for radio shows? Ever want your five minutes of fame? Well here's your chance to be a blogger. Seeing that my ... you to write a blog entry about your CPW experience. If you're

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  family went to my parents' friend's restaurant in Rhode Island. If you're ... It feels good to be back at the 'Tute!!! My family drove me up to Boston on Friday night. We expected to hit a lot of traffic, considering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  [hopefully] to you guys, I'm Elizabeth - just your average course 20 ... 's definitely not as hick as it gets, I've gotten stuck behind tractors driving to ... bizarre thing to get used to. But in addition to the people I met from

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  , and books in general, especially what is not yours is not yours by Helen ... after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear, in the northern hemisphere from March to May and in the southern hemisphere

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  by catching up on all of the work that you were supposed to have already completed. Procrastination can definitely be justified by that bonus ... dressing up as an electron orbital (e-mail me if you want to claim your

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  sheet can be used to detect particles by amplifying ionization patterns by ... two foils by making two model detectors to assess each foil's properties ... from the three separate GEM foils that are stacked to make the final

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  Orientation, when I decided on a whim to get a Harvard library card, which is ... wanted to get a library card, came with me and we both got our cards fresh ... is for getting students to go to Harvard's sports events. We had to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I've decided to try this approach to study for my 2.003 test coming up. WARNING WARNING WARNING!!! Physics content ahead! If you're afraid of physics, well

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  to Pecker.       This is what I come home to in the evening. I get to ... around the building to document what everyone was up to. One of my favorite things about living in Random Hall is that when I want to be alone, which

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  No scissors allowed: OrigaMIT You never know what cool stuff is going on around the Institute.

  

  . For instance, two weeks ago, I opened the door to room 3-343 expecting to attend 5.13 (Organic Chemistry II) office hours, but instead I found ... week and is open to people of all levels. Jason Ku, the president of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  teaching high schoolers about any topic they want. To give you a sense of the range, when I did Splash 2017 (as a senior and before I got accepted to ... to 18! There is really one more reason I wanted to talk about Splash

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  abroad, and it's been refreshing to not have to rely on my broken A1.2 Schwiizerdütsch to get around on a daily basis. Random things I've dearly missed ... , I've been settling in to my summer studio apartment, interning the 9

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  have made surrounded by those who will soon become your pals for life. ... . Today, May 15th - which happens to be the International Day of Families ... decision, including the 52 to whom we have offered admission. At that point

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 14, 2015