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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  (by day of the week) into cooking teams of 3-5 people. I'm on the Friday ... . What we cook depends on who's cheffing. Within a cooking team, we rotate ... house in time for the cooking day. 3. Show up on the day, and ensure that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . I asked Kevin to share some of his thoughts on his MIT journey: how it ... courses, I began to see the layers. They let me take the course on startups ... imminent negative reaction on my part, gracefully tell you that you can do so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  that by now.) On MIT’s list of 101 things to do before graduation for ... back on the past four years, I can finally say I do. I can also cross ... ) after an 8:00PM track race that went well and I was so hyped up on

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  Boston on the other bank, pictured above. It was windy. I was cold. My ... put on when it's cold and take off five minutes later when it's not cold ... about $20 on it for food. If you actually need any of it, you are again

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  the community. The team is also gathering feedback on solar lantern ... to work on the design of the bin and later discovered the brilliant ... és, which works on large-scale environmental projects including cooking stoves

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  . More importantly, it was the day on which early action decisions came out ... from a firehose. Now that I look back on it, that letter was asking me if ... -crazy free food all around!) I'm not on a meal plan (because I like to cook

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  ).  Since then, I've been on the ETOOMUCHADVENTURE side of things - the curse ... catch you guys up on what I've been doing. I will start it with a post ... hooked on this idea.  In a nutshell, there exist satellites called SPHERES

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  prep course. This decision is totally dependent on the type of person you ... understand, and complete with practice questions that were very much on the ... this book to be on par with or even slightly better than the EK orgo book

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  I went on to Princeton Review, searched for liberal arts colleges ... 's Admissions Office. The first time I stepped foot on MIT's campus was for my job interview. I had gotten lost on my way in and called the admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  haven't been reading your folders, working on plans for the big event. At ... quite a few years ago. Seeing the MITLeaks announcement on Monday reminded ... had five on my list, he nearly fainted...that meant he would need to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  -1 only has two days left on Hulu!", or d) all of the above). However ... drop more blocks on your opponent's screen. It looks something like this ... . For an hour, I battled any challengers who wanted to take me on for a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  on the student's performance as a leader. The assessed students then fill out a "yellow card" on their own time. Yes! The blue and yellow ... the cheerers last year, and I ran around with a red "M" painted on my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  complaint like, “I was five standard deviations below the mean on the last ... 's not a riddle.” On the other hand, General Relativity has been an eye-opening experience on the days when I've drank enough coffee that it hasn't been an eye

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  .” “IAP? I’ll take a design class and a PE class and work on my UROP. And I ... Southeast Asia. nbd. So she and I were planning on taking the aforementioned ... because it's a group based project class and we all could have worked on the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  on behalf of MIT Admissions. I'll explain how FIRST and KC are ... : every year, in January, a star-studded team of engineers on the Game Design Committee unveil that year's game to the 37,000+ students on 3

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  opportunity to sightsee on MIT's money, but when is it NOT a great opportunity to sightsee on MIT's money? Mmm, $40 sashimi dinners.) As this whole ... and then you have to dump ice cold water on yourself." Needless to say

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  last 40 hours because of studying for the test). Sigh. Any hints on how ... in orgo. Argh! < begins long rant on organic chemistry > (I ... " about chemistry and no longer depend on the memorization or the erroneous

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  decoding of the serial numbers on the packaging produced a phone number with ... Californians call it, Apocalypse Now. At 11:00 PM on Tuesday, I closed my ... pajama-clad limb on the roofdeck, where we duked out our grievances in a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  gladly consume the entire holiday bestsellers list on Amazon, or, even ... 't an expression that can be safely applied when you sleep on the top bunk ... Conscientious College Student: Stick your name tag somewhere on a conspicuous

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have some very mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I am excited to get ... classes come psets so...that's a wash. On other hand, I am trading Spanish

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008