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• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  am currently at Logan Airport, wishing my flight weren't delayed. The ... , you often have to interview at your school and compete for one of your ... ten minutes, I sort of just stared at the wall and let tears fall

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  so inclined) took ~5 years to perfect and develop? And look at it. It ... is one that I've learned more and more throughout my time here at MIT ... 'm averaging 12hrs a day in lab with at least another 4 spent on work for that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  say that the GEL 2s devote at least ten hours a week to help plan each ... . At our GEL 2 team meeting a few nights before the ELL, we did some ... that every team had to make at least one negotiation before completing a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  reflect on my experiences here at MIT. How am I doing in my classes here ... myself as an individual at my school. Simply put, I wanted to be the best ... the best in some competition. I'm not saying that here at MIT, we don

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  really choked up at CPW when I met some students I'd worked with at MITES ... school or work in honor of Veteran's Day, including at MIT. However, I ... 's lots of nights and weekends of work. But at the end, the final class will

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  in, and many of us are busy looking at our shoes as we walk. So to remedy the situation, bloggers would meet together at the first of the year ... , I figured I'd stop in at the Urgent Care clinic to see what they

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  can't do it all here at MIT. So take advantage of opportunities that ... happening to sit back. I loved my first semester here at MIT. So much going ... thought into the Greek system. When my older brother pledged a fraternity at

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  If you are at all following the news, you'll know that the US ... US politics? Professor Pauline Maier, a history professor at MIT ... available prominently at major booksellers like the soon-to-be-history Borders

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  a ferry that carried us several miles, going from a dock at Point ... relationship. Prior to me beginning my freshman year at MIT, it gave me this ... now that I felt at ease in and around the water. More to the point, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  purpose. For my UROP, I'm currently working at the Quantitative Research in ... number of men ride horses at great speed and fire long-rifles into the air ... listener. What surprised me at first is that even though my current career

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  awesome time to be in, at, and around MIT. There's all kinds of art ... generally happy in the media lab: Har, har. Anyway, back to the matter at ... . MIT's 150th convocation was held at Boston's Convention and Exhibition

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  About 20,000 visitors took a peek at MIT during last Saturday ... place at the same time. Wow. If you haven't seen the flashmob video yet ... . As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  face contemplatively sip coffee at you from my blog header, my tooling ... . Anyways, you can actually step into the unit, look up at the showerhead, and ... Showergy). To reiterate, there are incredible resources at MIT if you are

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  , and my decision was only between MIT and Olin; I asked my friends at ... on the tip of my tongue at the time. That was an absolutely stupid thing of me to do, but I guess it reflects the state of my mind at that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  hallway! People keep hair bleach and a variety of colors close at hand, and ... these activities, inviting us to climb at MIT's bouldering wall or go on ... form of peer pressure is not at all bad. Everyone at MIT has a passion of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  ’ve ever taken at MIT. Part of the reason for that is that one of my classes ... Wednesday" (as it was), it should not be due at 1:00am. Indeed, I hadn ... course during my time at MIT (and I think it's important for civil

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  I was at the cusp of finishing, and my much ... . Let’s build more stuff. That drive-by epiphany couldn’t have come at a ... .) That day, I looked at the list. I looked at my teacher. I looked back at

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  secretly wanted to do this. ...get special seats at fractal Planetarium shows... ...stargaze... I got up at 2am to take a look at Jupiter and ... first time in eight years, and crashed into a bush at full speed. I lay

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  morning I left home for college: at the end of the summer, I would fly ... around my room – at the Manchester United poster on the wall, the stuffed animals at the foot of my bed, the Tweety Bird bedsheets –   You

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  great experience. We've come up with a logo to represent Arts at MIT ... " under "life@mit" at mit.edu) which will soon enough connect to the ... directed by MIT theater arts Prof. Jay Scheib over at Emerson's Cutler

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010