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• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  to eat and most importantly, what to do with my life.  I've had a taste of the real world this summer when I had to track down a place to live ... fellowships.  I took the GRE a few weeks ago, which though not necesarily

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  Yes, I know it's a Sunday, but nonetheless, I went to lab around 2:30 pm. As I walked out 3 hours later, I had the beginnings of a blog entry ... 've learned a little about life - and how to live it: 1. Tell the truth. I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  had a stress-free beginning to summer. :) Picture-time~ My ... . To get to the peak, you have to pass through something like a dozen ... ’s Tsinghua University. So when I arrived in Beijing, everything got just a tad

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  . Flashback to 2004: a few weeks before high school started, I moved from Texas to California, and during a typical afternoon drive with my dad, we saw a house for sale. It was October and we were still living in an

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  As many of you know I am a FIRST Robotics nut and Kool-Aid drinking ... gridiron football - amidst a growing body of evidence that football causes ... are many reasons, reasons too complex to discuss in a PhD dissertation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  peace with wherever I'd end up, and then opened a rather unexpected letter ... feels like to be accepted into a school, what it feels like to get a ... do great things and you are going to have a wonderful college

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for ... , the last time I wrote, I talked about my work at a tribal-rural hospital ... my report, said my good-byes, and took a lottt of pictures with doctors

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  Having a brother who's eleven years younger than you has its perks ... feel bad about it (actually, a lot of people my age do that...) 3. You ... : Last year, my brother's second-grade class had a unit on Flat Stanley (if

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  ), I always thought of myself as more of a writer than a mathematician. I ... coming to an understanding of a text through the writing process itself. I ... …and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  a classmate calling studio “a time warp” – you just don’t know how ... that you have a general spatial understanding of where studio is, here ... a puppy calendar on the glass wall by my workspace… Mess, mess, mess

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  an event density so high, it's like a neutron star of awesome! There ... food than you'll know what to do with (hint: give it to a hungry ... anything to them was Battle of the Bands.* For an hour and a half one night

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  QUOTE: "My advice to a high school student interested in science as a ... about the answers. My advice to a high school sophomore or junior considering a career in science would be to close the science textbook for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a ... blocked from memory. Any sleep I lost was never found; TGIF took on a whole new meaning. So this week, I decided to shape up a little. By this, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  unmistakable weavings of a live saxophone. When the game disbanded I followed the sound. At the bottom of the steps of 77 Mass Ave was a lone saxophonist ... his tones. I was in New York, 1940. 52nd Street. I took a gulp of my

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  until Thursday, May 21. It is the absolute last day I can accept a thesis ... thesis. Have a great day! [Course Administrator] As of right now, I have ... and Pixel Overflow, Readout Noise, A/D Converter Nonlinearity

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  as the "A60" for historical reasons we can no longer remember, the NBM ... . As you begin having more questions about life at MIT as a freshman, and ... . So, what does this "NBM" include? Among other things:A cover letter

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  might know from the handy banner above, I am a Course 4 (Architecture ... Planning) and really want to pursue a minor but probably won't due to time ... requires, after six core subjects, a choice of one of five concentrations

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... approaches zero. Recent themes of mine have been the 250% Vitamin A Study Break ... one. Once, I also took a study break from studying biology by studying

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  who applied for EA got a chance to contact your EC and have an interview. So now that all the interview reports are being filed, it's a good time ... would be the point exactly? Your interview report shouldn't be just a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  A little bit ago, a prospective student wanted some insight on what a typical day is like for an MIT student. Although that's a very good question ... computing to practicing for the upcoming performance of A Midsummer Night

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008