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• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  homework? It’ll keep you from waking up early to work out and make you fall ... ’t have time. 2. Relationships: I didn’t get to enjoy the company of my ... all. Every day, take a good hard look at what you’re doing and make sure

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  -visible, large-scale public outreach] so he was allowed to make mistakes. But I ... attention to the memes people make of him, so I encourage you to go out and be ... yelled. "LEARN TO MOONWALK! YOU'LL NEED IT SOME DAY!" He didn't make it to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  EA, RA, and Transfer Updates Including the status of MyMIT tracking and the latest for those impacted by Sandy.

  

  admission to be a worry.  If you have submitted your EA Part 1 but not ... submitted your EA Part 1, you will need to select "Regular Action ... rescheduled to November 17 (or 18), please fill out this form. However, if your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  you make your own cheat-sheets. In the mandatory intro bio class ... unless I have to make some sort of leap. 2. I’ve changed as a person ... ’s because no college is going to magically transform you without your consent

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  you do what you want (or have) to do. It's the sort of thing where you're only kept awake enough not to miss your stop, yet tired enough to make ... composure, to make things feel a bit happier and nicer. Wanting to find that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  slave to my Google Calendar? I'm always running to the next place on my ... act--keep your grades up, shower, find internships, make friends, eat ... free to close this tab or even turn off your computer and go take a walk

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  What’s on your mind? As for me, my hair feels normal again.

  

  how to make the most of your college experience?  What are your burning ... RUSH RUSH RUSH RUSH So much is about to happen!  Electrical-component jewelry-making, seesaw- and small earth-mover-building, truffle

  • by Piper '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  are scrounging through weeks of your google calendar trying to figure ... make your essay-writing life a whole lot easier. 1. Start a Cliffs ... wouldn’t have to keep a daily journal of your life (although that would not

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  how they donated money to your charity. For the business, it increases exposure because their donation on your behalf is shared to your Facebook ... . Pavlok, a wearable device that zaps you in order to break you out of your

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  use each machine, we get to learn by making a spiffy Stirling engine ... materials to make our engine out of, and a really nice drawing set. As you can ... at about 500 rpm, but we hope that we can use this class to make some

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  -grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made horizontal or vertical slashes. Feeling rebellious, and wanting to amuse myself ... .” (It turned out we had to make a pros and cons list with the two halves

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  website outages, it’s easy to forget nowadays that MIT is a tech school ... figuring things out and trying to make rehearsals more streamlined. The ... cutting-edge fourth industrial revolution technology to run through walls

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  you need to carry cake to work on your bike, then you sort of wish for a ... because I didn’t know where to buy cake. I also had an end-of-internship presentation to give, and my mentor had invited 30 people.   We have a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  family/friends aspect and making new friends =)" Moving away to college for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same ... In the first installment of "Making the Switch," Melissa '11 asked

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  choose to do so, but if you don't choose one (i.e. staple your applications ... attend CPW, then you'd have to select your choices (there is a lottery in ... campus, you'll just have less information to go off of when you rank your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... commentator famous for his opposition to illegal immigration, and you may also know want to know what a triffid is. If you've got all that, enjoy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  've made up your mind for sure about whether or not to attend MIT, please let ... to the MIT Class of 2013!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you're making the best choice for yourself), or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  . Then, when you're ready to come back, you email your dean at S3 and your ... building full of friendly people your age). I also had a chance to do lots of ... lot" on your resume--but nevertheless it is important to know yourself

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  -graduation -- she's founded a company, Amino Labs, to bring Amino to the general ... 've always wanted to make my own little world and I think bioengineering cells ... and playing with them. Thats one reason why I built Amino -- to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  Longfellow Bridge to check out the Stata Center at MIT, which they hadn't seen before. We had planned to cap Saturday with dinner at Fire & Ice, but the wait was an hour and a half, so we headed down to Cafe of India

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004