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  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  Two weeks ago was our Spring Break at MIT, and the halls of Tetazoo ... or driving across the country or exploring caves. Yet I was here, at ... .  We chose to present on the issue of dorm security here at MIT, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  look at things like that but we're not strict about it. So, if a ... , you can email mitwl [at] mit [dot] edu and the documents will be added ... page in length) to mitwl [at] mit [dot] edu in mid-late April with an

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  weekdays. Sure, Monday is a pain. Tuesday is kind of meh. Wednesday at least ... call me Krystal “Antelope Legs” Lai. Well, at least they should. While ... salad that she bought at Thaitation for dinner. The puniness just blows me

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  I'm taking advantage of the Starbucks wireless network, at the Westin ... it does when I look at town lights out of the airplane at night and try ... vertigo returned today. I'm at the Conference of Research Experiences for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  library. At 2:50pm, Carl and his grandma arrived (I invited them.) At 3pm ... grandma) explaining and defending my work and occasionally glancing at my ... leave -- we could start driving at NIGHT, make it a few hours, sleep, then

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  two weeks ago, at a McCormick observatory public night. McCormick's 26 ... of meteorites. At the end of the hall, there's a room with a projector ... approached him and said I wanted to give talks and volunteer at the open nights

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  doubts that I was willing. That decision had stayed alive from at least ... the basis of at least 2-5 points on a test or exam, or whoever pulled ... feeling here at MIT. I'm free to pursue what's academically interesting or

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  D at Vanderbilt, and Hendrik, a current MIT graduate student.   ... because you’ll be too busy laughing and being happy. Now he’s at Vanderbilt ... anything scripted? Nothing that the contestants said or did was scripted. (at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  first met while judging Battle of the Bands at CPW 2010. Today, at 3:54 PM ... at my hotel before checking in at CPW. Did I really want to go to MIT ... would teach me to think like an engineer and at the same time, expose me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  Earlier today I read Michael Lewis' remarkable remarks at the ... 's Cookie." Lewis, an art history major at Princeton, is a famous journalist ... his time working at the derivatives desk at Salomon Brothers during the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  I don’t know if your school does this, but MIT asks its students at ... did something similar in GEL last year: At the end of the fall semester ... for me: speak up! At least half of the comments said something like

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  arriving at MIT, you might harbor the notion that it is a magical place where ... at MIT. I was told prior to arriving at MIT that it was going to be ... is not a place where parental desires matter. At the end of the day

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  start volunteering at a local hospital. Nurse: Birth date? Me: 31 October ... , at the elementary school where I volunteer on Tuesday afternoons. My ... at the sink, and carried it over to the table. Silence fell as the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  reëntered as grad students. At work the interstitial space feels even more ... 'm still one of the "young guys" at the office. But yet the undergraduates ... twice as wise, or at least wise twice. I am confident this is how wisdom

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  [email protected] or call the Admissions Office at 617-253-3400.]   ... students is November 6th, 2011, at 11:59 PM. For all other students, we will ... at no disadvantage.) If your EC has not gotten back to you, but it has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  , "Call for a good time." He showed up at the requested meeting place, and ... ..." Allegedly, I frothed at the mouth and rasped, "Mitra?? THE Mitra?" (Mitra, for ... -than-loud conversation was quietly tolerated by plaid-clad hipsters wincing at us over

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  of me even scoffed at the transient notion that this would take any significant time at all. "They're already on number 4 out of 5" I said to myself ... thinking. Lets take a look at another one" Panic. All. Of. The. Problems

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  alone at all. Your first adjustment, then, will be to prepare for the ... - at least at Next House - each have a thermostat. Hypothermia isn't an ... ? I can personally withstand a snow-induced catastrophe for at least

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  dedicated to the arts at MIT, but you know that spiels are spiels, not actual ... perform on a particular week, you can drop by at the beginning of that week ... any confiscated items of yours will be returned at the end of the show

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  AND being busy at the same time. I resent it. Regardless, it's that ... new kind of shock. I spent my morning and afternoon in lab at MIT ... them, eager to make it home. To a fellow punk: "Doesn't even look at us

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010