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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  (where you and your advisor meet one-on-one occasionally to chat) or an ... roundedness, I got the curvature started on a bag of sand, then used a "ring ... , because upperclassmen are the ones who know what's really going on on campus

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  of 2018!   You know, When I reflect on some of my favorite ... thing that stuck with me during my time on campus, it’s that at MIT, there ... [Chinese: Next time we go to China we can work together on sustainability

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  good. I look back on my fall classes and sometimes shudder at how little ... changes are often imperceptible. I discover them on trips back home, when I ... must find summer employment, which I have decided to seek on campus

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  Borderline (a general one, just to refresh on how unity works, and then one for ... 7:00pm - 6.042 on campus 10:00pm – Danny meets with someone for an ... go apple picking on Tuesday, because it was going to be scheduled

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  time, I thought I’d just dwell on some words I’d been thinking about lately (which I found mostly began with ‘F’) (thanks for clicking on my ... little more... Fenty For at least a week or two I had been sleeping on the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  : This is what #scretious looks like on Instagram and Twitter. Really ... this: Bunnies can be found on Killian Court at midnight, and in front of ... gather in groups on our lawns). Sometimes, we can get so close to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  mode - did a little work, chilled out a lot, ended up on the Dean's List ... sort of recovery from burnout. I took on absolutely no responsibilities ... coming back. Include some travel for perspective (you can read more on that

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  putting on!) Thomasina: "Oh, Septimus! - can you bear it? All the lost plays ... . We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing ... spring, I told my Chaucer professor (Arthur Bahr; more on him here and here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  're lucky, all the classes that you want to take might fall on the same two or ... the difference if you don't let others on to your reasoning), you can ... , on Thursday, my first day off, I was faced with the conundrum -- or

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  astrometry, UVA now uses it primarily for teaching and public outreach. On the ... years on this planet was when the man at the grocery store salmon counter ... my pulsar talk this summer as well, and two weeks later gave a talk on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• 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