Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  schools also on the list. Many of them may well known overseas, but most of ... a just few of the standouts on this list, and how they might fit into ... ; sciences. It is one of Loren Pope's Colleges That Change Lives and features a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  quiz bowl format features teams of students from each school competing on ... Brown scholarships. Scholars are selected on the basis of academic ... go on to graduate school following the completion of their bachelor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  the grassy area. I made the best of my situation and found a wall on a ... of whom were very nice. At around 7 o'clock the loudspeakers came on ... patriotic song medley, featuring: My Country tis of Thee America the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

  

  extensive tour of rooms on [annotation note="For those who don't know us, we ... of books on the windowsill i just think its so cute. sometimes people ... love having all of my books unboxed and on display - even if I don't have

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  discourse is complicit with the state of things as they are today!  On the other hand, there is this deafening silence on the part of non ... everything that’s going on. Many of us have had to unplug from social media and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  option... well, here I am on the lab's computer. Science, while a wonderful and rewarding career, is not really a nine-to-five type of job ... watching a History Channel special on the Kennedys), I had to come in at 7

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  Chrysler on the performance characteristics of acceleration, braking, and ... (Aero/Astro), and 15 (Management) students. On top of the satisfaction of ... downforce, it is theoretically possible for the car to stay on the ceiling of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  Well my friends, yesterday I took a little bit of a nap on the bus on ... , despite the fact that there was definitely a layer of snow on the ground ... pass each other on the way into and out of the athletic center during

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  readers may have picked up on, this is one of those times, as my summer has ... shopping kart into a go-cart that was featured in Popular Science. Lots of ... I have a problem (well, likely more than one, but let's not focus on

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  . Instead of spending my nights catching up on readings and lecture notes, I was catching up on sleep. Tuesday night was the first night of ... control. On the day of my first exam of the week, feeling as if I had not

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  parents cheered us on and wished us good luck the morning of? So much seemed ... based on the circumstances of the day, I find comfort in knowing that ... Heads up: I'm not sure if any of this makes actual sense. This is

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  ELL, with most of the work happening in our weekly GEL 2 meetings on ... adjustments, but the end of the semester features a student-planned ELL that ... ELLs take a lot of behind-the-scenes planning. ELLs are two

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

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  --skipped some, too. This is what I wrote on the night of October 10: What a ... normally never hike, except on vacation, so this was a nice change of pace ... way, of course ☺). If spent at MIT, the weekend features lots of panels

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  -standing policy of not speaking with a single institutional voice on matters of ... important upcoming events: DarfurFast on Wednesday, December 5th, and a Darfur ... protested “the militarization of university research,” and in

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  [annotation note="except lecture"]everything happens so fast[/annotation] and that my days are a constant stream of checkboxes on my To-Do list; i ... semester. my favorite part of being in SBC is going on coffee chats with

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  example, in the context of blogging, I can write my blog posts on Notion ... board, or on a calendar. I have screenshots of this below! Notion is very ... blog, I'll show you an example of how you can use Notion for working on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along ... rectangular aluminum blanks into a pair of finely detailed molds and then ... than just an aesthetic wrapper, but rather as the core of a product that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was because of the academic environment i was raised in - other people doing well on math contests meant i would have a worse rank, other people

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  , which featured winds and pressures (975 mb) characteristic of a Category 2 ... areas of Western Massachusetts. This kind of snow, which is unusually dense, can exceed 10 pounds per square foot in weight. And because of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  US competition in Lincoln, NE each June. I’ve worked on five of our ... studies to focus in excess of 80-100 hours per week on building their ... myself but share some of the more brain-blowing cool things we saw on the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018