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• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  being as frequent as I normally am. I think last year, I set a goal of blogging once a week. Sophomore year, this has become decidedly more ... -related activities. Academically speaking, sophomore year is definitely a step up from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  My breakfast last Thursday: a Red Bull and an antibiotic. That's the ... month. Let's go back a few weeks. At the time of writing, it is Halloween ... riding a bike. October 09-10 (H-Town) I was in Houston for a conference

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  Media Studies program at MIT. While I was a graduate student, CMS merged ... designed to work as a complementary major for students majoring in science, engineering, or another field of study at MIT. This major includes a three

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  Hey, there, it's been a while. Sorry about that; it turns out that blogging momentum is really hard to start up again after a certain point. I'll be trying to atone throughout April. In the meanwhile, here's a story

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  To everyone who's waiting for a pi(e) day decision: It's all going ... distracting herself by marathoning a TV show (possibly Firefly, again), playing a video game, or goofing off with friends to listen. If you want some

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  , three expectedly busy weeks. I’ve gotten sick for a brief period, seen ... meaning of midterm is fatally lost on MIT). There’s a lot that happens, and I think I sunk a bit too deeply into the Institute these past few

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  blizzard is coming up and hitting the Northeast real hard (Déjà vu).  It's a ... white snow to gray.♪ ♫Ralph Landau looks like a Star Destroyer, while ... us when we're sick, Is covered in snow, but only a few inches thick

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  All Hallow’s Eve You're never too old to trick-or-treat...

  

  's ignore that. This is gonna be a quick post mainly because I half ... dressed up as a motley crew of 7 characters from Doctor Who... plus a Spaceman Spiff, Finn from Adventure Time, a gypsy/Peruvian, and a MIT student

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  Sometime last year, a prospective student e-mailed me asking about ... absolutely essential skill for a scientist.   ... . What a guy.   Professional astronomy rarely involves sticking

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  +/- 1 years old and decided to make a space-themed board game. Here's a ... rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads (unfortunately I don't have a picture): "One day I went to Nasa! It was fun, very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as ... a recipe for my amazing summer, I could only tell you what I ... ://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/40-amazing-grilled-cheese-sandwich-recipes) would be a good life

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  sort of a broad overview of media studies at the graduate level. Anyway, a few weeks ago Professor Uricchio told us we would be having a guest ... campus as a CMS alumna, MIT lecturer, and cofounder of what might be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  as a sterile place. Labs stacked on top of classrooms and everything having its place and assigned number. It didn’t seem like a place ... . But it is! And after a tour of MIT’s public art through my

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  for the first time last weekend, and it was a great success. Offering a ... —and it’s the perfect excuse for a reunion with friends from summer camp ... whole “constant vigilance” mode (a la Mad-Eye Moody) because Central

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Fall Hits MIT In other words: Kate dumps all the pictures she's been meaning to post.

  

  Yes, fall is here: This blog post will be a collection of several ... . I'm planning to write a blog post about the Food Coop later this week ... cream through a small hole in a jar into the LN2...) Halloween is this

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  ’s a great opportunity for you, it does make things much quieter on the old homestead. It’s not a complete “Night of the Comet” (or “28 Days ... campus doesn’t vibrate with the same lightning-in-a-bottle energy. All

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  This semester, I'm taking a graduate class in General Relativity that ... tag). Never, in a dozen years of pre-college schooling, was the sin of ... learn the definition of a standard deviation until six weeks ago

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  've been making a robot!. As the hyperlink implies, I've been participating ... number is 6.186 -- MASlab is a course 6 class, but it is also listed in ... laboratory, which means that a bunch of college-type kids have to build a bunch

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  through it okay, and emerged at 6AM Saturday morning (okay, the essay was a small number of hours late.... whoops) tired and ready for a break. At ... , we had a three day weekend. What does this mean? It means it's a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  I. Emergency Dinner Sunday afternoon catches me cooking for 30+ in a ... with a miniature avalanche of lentils, peppers, onions, brown rice, fat pungent mushrooms, like a million thimble-sized cans of tomato paste, tempeh

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009