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• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  My time in Germany sadly came to an end two Sundays ago, when I ... too much involvement in the Philippines before, so it was our job to ... deeply impoverished Filipinos. While living in and traveling between GK

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  the reasons I have an interest in journalism today. What’s incredible to ... seats in Congress, lead only 15 Fortune 500 companies, and hold a mere 3 percent of top positions in mainstream media. In a Brown University study of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT IT.

  

  I logged into WebSIS to check my term grades and saw the following at the bottom of the page: SUCCESS AT LAST. (Well, I still have one grade that isn't in. Whatever. I'M DONE, Y'ALL.)

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  is by far the coolest toy in the inventory. So when I heard we were getting a fly-in for Marine Week Boston, I had to go see. The weather was ... : the best seat in the house the weather started getting rough

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Something is coming, part 2… Snively and I are still working on something awesome.

  

  Snively and I are still working on something awesome. This week: (In reference to this.) (Photo credit: Liz Kimball '11.) (See part one.) (Yes, we ate it afterwards.)

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A short entry about dorm awesomeness

  

  You know what's awesome about dorms? There's a lot of people in them. A lot of people who use iTunes. What happens when you have a lot of people using iTunes on the same WiFi network? Shared libraries! So many

  • by Snively '11
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tunnel Adventures We didn't get lost, in case you were wondering.

  

  to an elaborate system of tunnels that wind under and in between the ... 've neither seen nor participated in said activities. Instead, I've mainly used ... endeavor (video-editing credit goes to Carin '13). Note that in real life, we

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  ’t complete one cycle without getting distracted in between. Well, there was ... stage in Kresge, thanking Pres. O for a great opening act - he was one ... change from day-to-day, hour-to-hour in fact – one moment, all you see is a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.

  

  of Boston's air pollution. Soaked in a brew of life ... the retina-searing tears of rain that had glommed in the gutters of my ... morale-raising sight of Professor McGreevy in an orange T-shirt, sprinting

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please Vote for My Idea for the Obama Administration! Change.org is sponsoring a competition whereby anyone can post an idea for making America better.…

  

  that I might pop back in every now and then if the occasion's right ... Change.org, MySpace, and more than a dozen high-profile NGOs. In short, the ... to do is go here and click on the "Vote" icon in the top left

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  fruitful one for me. To recap: Late May -> Early July: Back in Taiwan ... Without Borders - the Taiwanese version) into the Aborigines villages in Taiwan. Early July -> Early August: Back in MIT, working on a UROP

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Why no blogs!? I'm busy, ok?

  

  Why no entries lately? Because MIT's Freshman Orientation is in full swing and everybody on campus is crazy busy. With what? Stuff like the East vs. West Water War from yesterday. Photos courtesy of our ever

  • by Snively '11
  • August 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  P.S.—Check out the Booklet!

  

  I forgot to mention that America in the World: MIT Speaks has been published! You can check it out at http://web.mit.edu/cis/pdf/FAP%20Booklet.pdf.

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  below in the comments, all the way through midnight tomorrow... If you ... information: Students can request an extension of the May 1 deadline in order to complete and contemplate financial aid. Please contact Joanne Cummings in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  engineers do that they won't have to ask! I graduated from MIT in aeronautics ... ways in the snow to get to the Institute back then. After a stint in ... Propulsion Lab (JPL) in Pasadena, California. JPL is the place that sends out

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Not Admitted A forum for students who were not admitted.

  

  With an 8% increase in applications, this year was again the most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting less than 12% of applicants means that we had to turn away many, many incredible students. For those of you

  • by Decisions
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  taxa currently fished by the mid-21st century (in the year 2048 ... decrease in biomass (living matter - like fish, shrimp, scallops, krill...etc.) in the Atlantic Ocean from 1900 to 1999. Just in 99 years... Source

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  things in the Hobby Shop, and checking things off of my “101 Things to Do ... participate in the January Scholars in France program, an incredible program for ... spend two weeks in Paris trying out all sorts of restaurants, visiting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  in the Air Force." Both men instantly had my respect. One of the many ... of us arrived at the Dave Powers Room in the Constitution Inn in Boston, each of us immediately felt a little out of place. We were standing in

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  project on visual image processing in the Schiller Lab. More recently, he ... in the special sauce that makes MIT such a mecca of talent, but it ... MIT’s campus in 1996 as an undergrad and has not ventured far from

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007