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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  week is routinely characterized by setting my alarm to wake up super early to check the website and see if any MIT folks won. I have to be ... , society and the environment. Thanks to the Nobel website for the description

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  antsy, so I wanted to make a quick post and point your attention at two ... ;   When I come back I plan to post the blogger application by July 1 ... , picking up long-dormant projects, and starting new initiatives. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  just to get into Boston. I feel kind of dumb now thinking that my moment ... year. Maybe your friends have promised to take the bus out to Wellesley to cheer you on. Maybe your parents promised to come up and watch you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  new paths. It’s horrifying sometimes to think how much knowledge there ... new paths, allowed me to marvel at the complexity of modern science ... up, and learn from mistakes, too. I had to search for new options, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  your vehicle is pointing relative to the Sun, Earth, and other reference ... Chris Hadfield.  You should get his new book - it's really good!)   ... on the fly. Some get to this break point and realize they can

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  campus, and their explorations in finding new places to live. Today, I ... kicked off of campus, I was naive enough to believe that we'd be back by ... started to sink in that not only would we not be back by May, we might not

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here ... these things aren’t super easy to come by! Regardless, we started ... days Cried for about an hour on interstate 90 :( Moved to Maine with

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Liveblog from Apple Store I copy Paul, 3 hours later.

  

  necessarily apply to McCormick, I'm not sure exactly how that works. 3) Your current roommate is also temporary, although you will get a chance to keep ... Hello world. I too am at the new Apple store at Boylston street

  • by Snively '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  ; Each year, fall semester seems to pass by much quicker. Maybe coming off ... to see our friends, go back-to-school shopping, move into our new rooms ... . To get some headspace, and reflect on the semester and year. To have

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  approved by the hall (or at least not objected to), your door is your own to ... you spend your life. Inspired by my desire to spend more time in the way ... could get painting, so I resolved to paint the tree over spring break

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  any other updates you'd like to provide (new awards, changes to your ... Report for your updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my application, or all new essays? No. You do not need to "improve" your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  any other updates you'd like to provide (new awards, changes to your ... Report for your updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my application, or all new essays? No. You do not need to "improve" your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  class). Plus, you get to machine your own flashlight out of aluminium ... bucks.  That's not including the cost of getting trained to use that gear ... , bread. (2) Forget to add mayo. (3) Hike 10 miles through snow, over ice

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  direction to that of the circle traced out by your arm, hence the term ... trace if you're supposed to. [caption id="attachment_90869" align ... actually makes it cheaper to fabricate[/caption] Ideally, your traces should

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  better and shed new light on your application, feel free to send that in ... you have created. You do not need to send in your research poster ... fair and we don't get to present it or anything until late January

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  example, this pantoum, written by Heather '13— “Institvte” To learn ... haunt your mind, and you must be willing to set aside your assumptions that haunt your mind and make up your past To set aside your

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  ’t Hurry Love by Phil Collins - I remember listening to this song a lot in ... absolutely drowning in work and had to distance myself from my friends to get ... Sleeping by Myself (all by Pearl Jam) - I learned these songs on guitar to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  ways. You have no idea what you're about to put yourself through - and in ... than an hour to get there from the fifth station. It was probably the ... weather started to get really, really bad. Difficult to stand up, let alone

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  't stick to your "10 year plan" too much. Things change every day. New ... rigid plan about what you're going to do. New ideas change the world ... now... In any case, it's easy to get lost in the details of MIT as a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  to get my Brass Rat 12) Unknowingly ended up in a private Sting ... as a New Englander now?) 29) Went to Salem, MA on Halloween Weekend ... lot of it is good stuff that's happened to me. By no means has this year

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019