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• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  tends to make their own I3 video; this year, not every community has a ... As a part of MIT's unconventional housing assignment process, the Class of 2023 has been spending their summer deciding where to live with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Portraits of a Campus on Lockdown

  

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  as close as you'll get to a home-cooked meal. On a weekly basis, food ... Disclaimer: This post was supposed to be written a whole 6 months ago ... 's only one way to know. (Huge shoutout to the many friends who joined me on

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT ... running (5-ish am to 2-ish am on weekends or midnight-ish on weeknights, except on Sundays, when the T runs 6-ish am to sometime shortly after

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  education to drinking from a firehose. I'd like to go out on a limb and ... , the question of how to best distribute bodily mass on sleds is a ... theory) ranged from rubbing dead cats on sticks to pouring super

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  essays, be a shoulder to lean on, be passionate about something, be curious ... (article) to complement this post On Wednesday, I went to classes, graded some psets, did yoga in my P.E. class, worked on a blog post, attended

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

  Refreshment We need your help!

  

  's basically an initiative to encourage people to make a positive difference in the world. Past grant recipients have used the money to fund research on ... send a larger group of kids to camp. There are a thousand project entries

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  agree on. To experience several bad patches week after week is a surefire ... .) You don't have to be on your game at all times, but it's a good idea to ... which were back-to-back), writing about 30 pages on subjects ranging from

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  to go but I had a pset due on Saturday and plans to hang out with ... to be able to attend and meet amazing people who shared such a strong desire to have a positive impact in the world.   Aldrich Hall, part

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  Once upon a time, there was an application to MIT... It's a Monday ... down to read my applications, one at a time. I start reading the ... this on the Part 1. Where are you from -- a big city? a rural farming

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  /or insomnia: take a walk outside on a sunny morning to help reset your circadian ... A couple of days before a physics test, my friend Chacha'14 posted on Facebook asking how to deal with stress, and got a massive influx of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  called, "Preparing for College: What's a Maker To Do?" Its on Sunday at 3 ... of interesting presenters speaking on a large range of topics. Here ... the Internet) went to Maker Faire out in CA last year and wrote a blog

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  works when you play a Bb on a keyboard? Come to MITERS. Want to browse an ... relaxed and listen to music, snack on a sandwich, or just hangout with your ... . (Besides, I'd like to see the matriculation rate after a CPW modeled on 4

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  mountain, to making s'mores on a bonfire on the beach; from learning to ... all the feeling there decided to concurrently take a few hours off to ... also cannot feel.) This year, as opposed to last year when I was a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  opportunity to attend a 3 week base visit called "Ops Air Force" during the ... Development Training (PDT) program designed to give cadets a better view of Air ... different squadrons to get a broad view of base operations. I was lucky enough

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Sneak Preview

  

  awesomeness Interseting story: My mom was seated on the plane next to a couple ... , where she plans on taking a short break so she can nurse her daughter. And speaking of awkward moments: I ran into a professor on Wednesday

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  to defriend me on facebook after I posted a TextFromLastNight (about ... I had literally never taken a screen shot until I got to MIT ... got a hold of my laptop and started sending even more lobsters out to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  Competition! MIT Technology Fair - a group of undergraduates dedicated to ... we are inviting YOU to be a part of it! THINK (Technology for Humanity ... Catherine Huang '10 just sent me this announcement and asked me to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  through teaching, organizing events, or just listening to a friend on a hard ... personality that exist on a spectrum: Openness to experience, Conscientiousness ... for things I don’t pay attention to, until I recently talked to a few

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  Engineering and Computer Science, has worked on this project for two and a half ... project, he had the opportunity to spend a couple of weeks in a Japanese ... 's time to look elsewhere." Outside of the lab, Vivek enjoys playing on the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005