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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  (for his birthday, we made a Whirlpool Galaxy out of cake, frosting, and ... nice day outside for once - Virginia has been ridiculously hot recently ... for half an hour to open and print an image (WHY ARE THERE SO MANY

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  sentiments: *dislike* for not recognizing your own awesomeness, but *like ... very much, but uh... why?" These comments aren't fishing for compliments ... . Prestigious institutions are particularly fertile soil for pridefulness: plant

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  to see fizzing water. They can drink soda for that. Feeling a little guilty for bringing such a lame demonstration, I filled up a film canister ... imagination. On Sundays, I volunteer on a pediatrics floor for infants and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  THE UES (or the Upper East Side, for you unenlightened folks ... each other!). I've delegated her as the spokesperson for the "where are ... -storms, us folks on the California campus even took asteroid measurements for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  for any prospective student to stand even a ghost of a chance of getting ... to an end - nor is it, for that matter, a question of finding how low ... webcast hosts for Chesapeake said last night. That's why people look at

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  the school. While prepping for the lesson, I went back and watched ... God for OCW. I’ve watched that gyroscope lecture three times now, and ... for themselves. When my lesson ended, I felt so happy, proud, and lucky

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  Expansion Director for LTI (pretty much the guy that facilitates LTI ... focus on student leadership and provides many opportunities for students ... and service program for Boston-area high school students. The mentoring

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  with each other until about 7:40, when we all headed off for bed to catch ... creative mechanics for the players' green sheets. The original concepts were ... this fall for the enjoyment of Guild members who couldn't play in the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  't bark, and can better fend for themselves while students are in class ... the rise, said Tony Pals, spokesman for the National Association of ... have higher expectations for campus living amenities, and there's greater

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  fined $25 for not doing our cleaning duties, and the serious shame of ... harvesting my friends' brains for testing failed, I settled instead on working ... ever. Living in Boston. I lived at Phi Delta Theta this summer for a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  (songs, for example, are the main element of a musical, or in the other ... arrangements for songs and they usually sing pretty well-known stuff (the Logs ... there were people sitting in the aisles of our biggest lecture hall for

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  't give a damn for any old man who don't give a damn for us! 1. Hearing ... . Taste Quothe the Bryan, “If you’re paying for your food, you ... check-in until Sunday check-out, I was free. FREE. For a kid with strict

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  York Magazine's picks for the fall. Junot (we didn't call him Professor ... 's another juicy quotation for the click-averse: "Then Díaz more or less disappeared for 11 years, long enough for most readers to assume that, like most

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  that they would charter five boats a day for it, but I guess if the ... things a little differently. Here is this incredibly artful for those of ... happy to provide us with eyepatches that she bought for her photo shoot

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  the amount of work they had done for a class--"Oh, I didn't even bother studying for this test" or "Ha, I just wrote this entire term paper the night ... this? Let me tell you about my day yesterday. I was on campus for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  simply too different. All this to say: for me, choosing what to do after college was easier than choosing where to go for college. But only a little ... come back. So much for theory, then. Stay with MIT, or leave MIT. Choose

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  has room for! Read the title. You're all bright kids.  Foo 11 ... YOUR HAIR HAS ROOM FOR! Need more color in your hair? We can fix that ... circle into R^3. It provides an important set of examples for topology and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  .  During this time, we were on a waitlist for a charter elementary school ... sounds ridiculous, but this was our mindset for four years, from fifth to ... ="Our teacher for eighth grade U.S. History in School B happened to be the teacher

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  (standard name for the airport you skydive at) was about an hour away and ... of a lack of vehicle I should probably hold off on skydiving for a ... registered for the 6 hour ground training.  A week later I found myself sitting

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  just wondering. for the interview...is that too unprofessional? the nose ... nose ring. (Or, for my friend Alvar '98 PhD '05, a lot more than just a ... exciting and challenging work for them (there’s hardly enough of that for me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008