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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  needed to renovate W1 just wasn't as easy to get our hands on. So the whole ... administration had plans to increase camaraderie among graduate dorms, to alleviate the crowding in undergraduate dorms, and to increase the undergraduate

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  stressing out about trying to understand physics and chemistry, I also get to ... pretty manageable. I studied as much as I needed to and went to bed by11 or ... —Electricity and Magnetism, with Theory.” When deciding to take the class, the “with

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway ... cream-you’ve got give me more to work with. Are we eating it plain, or ... the mood to experiment? It’s kind of a big deal, picking a favorite, and

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  found each other online and chatted a little before getting to MIT. By the ... As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of ... to these strict guidelines: Yikes! This is crazy! (See any typos

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  unmotivated. Career Fair lasts for three more hours -- all I'd have to go is get ... for that project made me a half hour late to 4.42J/2.66J/1.044J ... model, so we got to go outside and take measurements under cloudy skies

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  's warm here, you still have to drive to get anywhere in Florida, Jamba ... This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ... set of railroad tracks on the way to his house, he said, "And this on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  very superficial, including the perks that women get access to the Women ... Biomolecular Systems on Friday morning. In an effort to procrastinate, I was ... : The Battle Moves to the Trenches” by Cornelia Dean (the Times’s science

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  applications, and knowing that one year from now, you'll be getting ready to take ... want to reread Marilee's recent post. [But MIT is my dream school, I can't imagine being happy anywhere else!] [This doesn't apply to everyone, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when ... intended major. I was reaching for the top -- what better place to study ... , home to some interesting and important transportation research. Visions

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  down in the parking lot with their head in oncoming traffic to get the ... To begin: "If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  stars admiring from afar (to properly credit "we fell in love in october ... that numbs both fingers and souls alike, we only get a few short weeks of ... , and bears get really really fat.  [carousel image1="80642" image2

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  design class I took to get them printed. But given that there's only a semester left, I'm not sure if I want to go through the hassle of getting ... . Was this followed to a T? [annotation note= " thank you covid

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  are getting involved). In my time with the team, I've learned so much ... brought MIT's varied schools together to identify and support innovative ... MIT's most innovative companies from HubSpot to Akamai to Harmonix, the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  /Oliver Queen. Source: Imgur   Every time I go to one of these events, I get excited. Every time, I think about how far I've gone to be able to ... retailer through their app, that retailer will donate money to a charity of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching

  

  emails. For all of you trying to get your Regular Action application in by ... now fill out the conducted interview form and we will be sure to get the ... any time on January 1 or before, but try not to wait until the last

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  view:     It's good to be back to campus, now as a senior ... , reconnection to friends, and eagerness for a fresh academic term is a permeating ... . During retreat, the scientific community gathers to present research and

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching no need to panic

  

  you trying to get your Regular Action application in by the January 1 ... now fill out the conducted interview form and we will be sure to get the ... any time on January 1 or before, but try not to wait until the last

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  something new to my list, albeit I don't get it until May: the MIT Brass Rat ... . My dad, as you might deduce from the letters and the year next to his ... idea of me going to MIT when he got a small, gray MIT t-shirt for me to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  and congratulations to our new provost - Professor Chris Kaiser. You can ... .D ’87 represent!). I’m going to miss him, although our new lecturer is equally awesome (shout-out to my homeboy Prof. Peter Reddien! Also an MIT

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  Development. I've now seen more snow than I ever cared to see in my life; by ... to my former desire to earn a degree in Chemistry (HAHAHAHAHA) and ... goals have clearly shifted quite a bit. This is partially due to a year of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009