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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  My first final exam at MIT was 8.012: "Physics For Masochists ... . He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn ... , a professor at MIT. Woah. He was there because he's a recitation

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  of my visit to Anaikatti is to work at one of the tribal hospitals in ... help. It’s been an amazing experience so far. The doctors at the ... from working at the hospital, I’ve also made a couple trips out of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  their helpful faces at the end of my information sessions. The time had ... your staff id in your back pocket and listen with rapt interest at ... coolest places on our campus. Looking at it day after day you tend to forget

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  's perhaps most important for some future nerds here at MIT (not to be confused with nerds from the future here at MIT). As I'm sure you already know ... I love being at the most (a good thing since I spend most of my waking

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  class at MIT on my resume. Not bad. Plus it's my favorite professor's last semester at MIT, so I'm happy to get to work with him teaching his class. 6.01-Intro to EECS EECS, for those of you who didn't stare at the floor during

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  in the world." Money has always been tight at home, especially after ... him that was a prerequisite for going to elementary school. At 3, he ... Street was a 16, for instance. At Woodstock Elementary, his second

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  Orientation. (Where was I going? I have no idea, but I was lost.) I had been at ... strangers at Random Hall, still feeling like I'd been displaced into someone ... Paul B. was at least 5 feet tall*. *Actually, he might be over 5 feet

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  that he is, in fact, at MIT. Tim the Beaver beams at the camera ... , Bridger celebrated his arrival at one of the world's most renowned ... here, but I think I want to join. In the same vein, Lin was present at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  consists of at least 40% actual humans, leaving an estimated 58% for spambots ... opportunity to purchase cheap pharmaceuticals and improve my credit rating at ... obstacles like CAPTCHAs and hyperlink filters. Take a close look at this

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  crisis has affected many, here at home and around the world. I know that ... analytic and human skills you will learn-by-doing here at MIT are the exact ... at any time during your four years here, be assured that we will be

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  claimed to be any good at this updating thing, okay? (But for real, I have ... taking 18.02 and 18.03 at the same time.) Um, so I was talking about Reg Day. The thing is, it was my 8th and final Reg Day at MIT, and despite

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  A huge perk to living at MIT is living right across the river from ... mp3 player and bring it under your ghost costume. At the given signal ... is taking place at Christopher Columbus Park. To find the exact

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  offering pizza at its 7 pm meeting? Tough luck, Chess club, Debate’s offering ... of looking at it), the Stand Up Rally is at Harvard at 7pm this Friday ... . Unfortunately, I won’t be at this, so no blog for you. Eat So They Can Dinner

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  figured 18.01 would be a walk in the park, I took one look at the p-set and ... started the pset at 9:30p.m. What follows, friends is what is known as a ... fact. But what makes it so hard? it's just maths right? Sort of. Here at

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  Admissions blogger is its Editor-in-Chief? [answer at the end of the entry ... . Boiko: Last year, a senior in one of our courses came up at the end of ... interesting? We think that, at least partially, it's because they approach

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  Christina Barcelona playing at the Kendall theater. Went in pouring rain in a ... field day they know something is definitely up. At 5:30 4 boxes are ... with the easy-going folks down at the MIT boathouse later, and I'm ready

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  I work at Hasbro in Rhode Island, about a 1 hour train ride away from ... most Summit activities will be at Northeastern University, the Museum of ... it'd be good to blog about it. We arrived at the Museum of Science and

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  Even though I just finished my first year at MIT, this is actually my ... 'd already spent the previous two summers taking an immunology course at Northwestern and an engineering course at Notre Dame, so I was ready to try

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  't representative of a typical weekend at MIT. It is true that CPW isn't a typical ... because so many groups at MIT are excited about your presence. What you won ... studying is done before you arrive, or while you're at other events. Again

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  grad school someplace with palm trees, I spent 16 years at the Jet ... after they came down, and I remember looking at Venus' surface and saying ... being along with Roald Amundsen at the South Pole, but warmer and with

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008