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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  MIT blogs and also to offer an update on my life post-MIT. I graduated ... ’m over on the West Coast, at Stanford, where I just finished my first year ... above: the MIT blogs had a huge influence on my decision to apply to and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  research, and enjoying this view from my lab on a daily basis: Campus ... ). My research is on the microbiome of the female genital tract, and my ... define MIT’s presence on the global stage. I had the opportunity to learn

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  I'll be honest—I had never really planned on going abroad during ... for two reasons: 1) We would be working on designing an application for ... scheduled for the week before Spring Break. I had never really anticipated on

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  . For more information on how our Early vs. Regular and deferral process works, you can read a previous post I've written on the subject ... do the work we do. And for all the fun we try to have on the blogs, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  ...all sandboxes for building castles. Put them all together, slap on a deadline, and ... a Grand Theft Auto-inspired game set in, well, any setting on Earth the player wanted, as long as it was on Google Maps. Yet another team

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  . In my bio, I mentioned that MIT wasn't on my radar when I was applying to colleges. Obviously, if you're reading this blog, MIT is on your ... 's my list: 1. Humanities matter. I'm expounding on this point from my

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  from 2009-2012, when I went on a somewhat spontaneous year's leave to complete my master's degree in Comparative Media Studies. A few weeks ago, on ... worked on interesting projects. I snacked. I read books. I started doing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  green house on Chestnut Street has a porch light on. This is pika, one of ... each dish, I had enough on my plate to feed all the chickens for a month ... . There are murals on the walls and a fireman's pole from the fourth

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  -cinnamon mousse. That night, I put on a dress and makeup and did my hair, slipped my feet into high heels, put on a backpack, walked down one flight of stairs, took off my backpack, and worked on a Junior Lab paper for three hours

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  seeing him on stage, it became clear that, even for all the reverence he ... people on stage couldn't help but laugh and smile. Neither could I - or a ... worth it to be in the presence of so many bright and thoughtful people on

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  Lander can predict the future.  Or at least what will be on the front page ... synced to the note.  I'll keep you updated on how it goes, unless I end up reverting to my previous system of scribbling on bits of looseleaf paper, in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  with: 1) Associate Advising 2) MedLinks (1) is the reason that I'm on ... student perspective on things like class choices, deciding whether or not to ... would like to let you all know that they are the 23 coolest freshmen on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  stuck this piece of aluminum on the mill. A mill is essentially this fancy ... different diameters, we pocketed (made a square shaped hole) on the top of the ... below! Again, I failed and forgot to take photos... but essentially on

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  't as difficult as I thought it would be. Just pay your rent on time and ... AWESOME!  I didn't even mind that there was a malfunction on our main ... on sensory overload :)  My parents weren't really excited that I'd gone

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  currently failing miserably). p.s. I've been spending way too much time on ... on the train and hope that I wake up to my 7:20 alarm. 7:30 AM ... summer. I've learned so much!! Though I'm pre-med and am pretty set on

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  past couple weeks, I've been working with some wonderful people on Team ... toy. The sketch model on the left was our works-like model which tested how our toy would physically work. The sketch model on the right was our

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  notoriously tedious and time-consuming. It relies on Java, which I haven ... -viral on Facebook last semester. The caption was: "Death came to personally ... .e. high!!) ratings on MIT's subject evaluation system. I have a feeling this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  -Lab trip leaders and the community in Miramontes are working on providing a ... villages, Miramontes and Brisas del Mar, yesterday after working on ... -enterprise selling rice on the market. The cooperative has a very diverse group of

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  aggregators instantly pounced on and reblogged. His own blog (incidentally, a ... guys probably want to hear more about the man behind on the machine ... on the turf of knowledge, or begin life as blindly wandering, major

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  Hello Internet! It's been a while. I last blogged on EA Decision Day, 12/17/2011. But I actually wrote that post on the 16th, because on the morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012