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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  week (more on that soon) and am here to spotlight an incredible project a ... . Biking across the country, an endeavor one of the other people on the trip ... Francisco for the summer. After talking to a number of groups working on ed

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  been made more clearly. While (hopefully) no lives are riding on your ... these books, from the titles on down, is so suffused with self ... from Yale. He had recently spent a week on a reservation helping Native

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  thread on a forum I frequent is subtitled "Everyone Else Feels Like An ... graduate program on a fluke and that someday she'd make an error that would ... people are too stupid to know they are stupid. Impostor syndrome, on the

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

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born in Moscow on March 12, 1992, into a demographic hole created by World ... told me not to stand on the slide. Apparently I was trying to tell her

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  a stunned daze, that this would be the closest I would get to a one-on ... Physics degree. Please do stop by and see your advisor on registration day ... , then go on to medical school and become a neurologist. In one very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  for the Institvte! This summer I’m on staff for the Research Science ... . Projector won’t turn on? The “emergency” facilities number actually gives you ... , I did. Maybe Mr. Cave was being extra hard on us?) But I challenge you

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  , missing the 1 Bus, then getting stuck on the T between Hynes and Copley for ... rehearsal. I took a seat at the dead center (#106) while Nick set up on the left corner and Carolina set up on the right corner. But as the show was

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  on genetic silencing. And yes, in case you were wondering, I thought ... … actually, on second thought, I had a lot of good doodles from this lecture. I ... , so they miss out on how fun learning is.” Schooled by P. Reddien. I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  whole bunch of other responsibilities, it's tempting to just veg out on ... and on your own for a few weeks. It’s a good thing to know that you can ... sessions, tour the campus, and even though most students will not be on

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  Concerto Competition. In her most recent recital on campus, she performed the ... ! - recommended: right-click+save as on the link to download the file and listen on ... on April 23, but you know how MIT is... :) ----- Chris: Since when

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  focus on student leadership and provides many opportunities for students ... on the basis of leadership, friendship, and service. Last spring, I ... with problems, and overall outlook on life…I have grown so much from LTI

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  other ESP chapters after they went on to grad school. As of now, UChicago ... nutshell, if you take away the nights of tooling in deserted locales on MIT campus (I should write an entire blog on this), numerous take-outs ordered

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  . Literary works are read with an emphasis on different forms of autobiography ... focusing on the sabar drumming tradition of Senegal, West Africa. Study and ... from the rise of Islam to the present, with an emphasis on exchanges and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  You may think you have a pretty good grip on what type of person you ... strong work ethic on top. Simple enough, I figured it summed me up pretty ... every part of my application starting on August 1st I didn't start filling

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  and silver and black MIT lanyard; on it are the words MIT Engineers, a ... on campus—and there shouldn’t be any reason for me to like it this much ... four staples later I was in a taxi (my first!) on my way back to the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  interested parties listening intently, cheering on their favorite Jewish tasty. I'm going to try to semi-flow this debate, keeping you updated on all ... loving latkes! The stars on the flag? Nope, latkes. 50 latkes, all on our

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  Hunt winner blogger (my money's on Evan for next year, though). She of ... convinced me to join his team ^^ "What was the experience of working on the 2007 hunt like?" Working on last year's hunt was a tad bit awkward, but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  Darth Vaders up on the stage at 26-100, so there was a pretty sizable ... .) LSC GUY: Hello, and on behalf of LSC, thank you for coming to this free ... "you do some quantum thingy" (his words) depending on the quantum number

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  I'll begin with a flashback. Scene: On my way back from my daily ... I was in lab on June 9. Welcome to graduate school! (I actually chose ... depending on your status, undergrad/grad/alum/faculty/staff. I look forward to

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  " painted on its side, but I'm not actually going to tell you what it is yet ... on that useless green form that your mom later insisted you save for ... bowl of goldfish crackers and Conan O'Brien on in the background. (He

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007