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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  friends, new line of work. In the first few months of adjusting to fast ... voice. In the process of learning how to put together an effective piece ... enough time to think of things to write for CityLab as is. Of course, now

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  I've decamped from the Boston area northwards to New Hampshire for the weekend. My house in the suburbs of Cambridge, while high enough to ... , hang out with my brothers, and try to ride out the worst of it. But

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  ". So there is an FPOP for entrepreneurship! I looked up their website to ... know pretty much every single one of the groups on that list! I have to ... hundreds of thousands of daily players. He even told us about how he used to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  start to get angry. Be smart, take a picture of the tree when people aren ... It's a famous dome, and if you've never heard of it then do a google ... in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Start shaping up in January! I like.

  

  to the official rules page of the program website, “Any physical ... @mit challenges teams of 5 to 8 people to log the most number of minutes exercised ... ,000,000 minutes of getting-fit-@-MIT. Those are some big numbers. It’s easy to see

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  the undependable nature of our printer to announcements for parties to ... Considering the lack of inactivity on these blogs in the past week or so, I think I speak for us all when I say it was “one of those weeks

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  :43 AM, so that's probably not going to happen. I'm kind of tired because I ... threat to America?" I mean, once you hear my question it's kind of a judge ... to have a unit of measurement in the metric system named after me. Now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  good at theoretical plasma physics you have to know a lot of things that ... for the world?[annotation note="to be clear, plenty of people at MIT ... their home rivers to spawn the next generation of salmon. This is really

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  ): The Evolution of Our Scientific Answers to Seven Fundamental Questions ... just the ones I'm aware of.) We want Splash programs to learn from each ... 12 (the last day of CPW :( ) Chelsea and I boarded a plane to San José

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

   terrible, opened my Google calendar, saw I had nothing I desperately needed to do ... some ways more than the actual act of being sick. I proceeded to text the ... 've been wanting to write about for the last month. But being "out of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  on campus too! Just the general gestalt of the place is very cool--down-to ... things about Boston: Boston's nice, but to be honest I spend most of my ... of a small town--one of the best places to live on this planet, really

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  had to work, I walked to and from school most days. I kind of cry a tear ... . Others wanted to go where most of their friends were going. I and a handful of other people just wanted to see what was beyond state lines and

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  pictures of neurons. 2. Starting to plan a really important party for next ... introduction to the blog to those of you just joining us. (I am NOT putting my ... stalker I have -- and apparently I have a few -- to effectively google me

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  at you. Pursuing the simple ideal of being a good student forced me to ... . It’s already exposed me to a lot, some of which doesn’t even have to do ... get from talking to them when you know, without either of you actually

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  me by and, apparently, get into MIT. But it's this very method of ... . Simultaneously, this frustrates me because I like to think of myself as hard worker ... more of the former. There's a desperate part of me that wants to drop

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  Class of 2010, here's one more... Central grad's MIT future a family ... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, and announced she wanted to go there. Only she didn't - she couldn't. Her family, which had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  . Prior to the visit, I was terrified of taking Biology at MIT. After CPW ... ) are so important—they’re designed to give you a glimpse of what life ... . I knew that I wanted to be part of the MIT community after CPW

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  my next class?" The number of "yes" answers to that question divided by the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1 ... -pee of 0.4375. Yikes. Last semester, my favorite time to blog was between

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  uncluttered to touch. That's how I feel about the new MIT admissions website. I ... -easy to upload. You know what this means? Photos of kitties! This is ... post. Unfortunately, he beat me to it. He got a pretty good picture of me

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  first week of orientation, you get to go around and visit all the dorms ... , most dorms do some sort of in-house rush to decide what floor, house, or area of the dorm you'd like to live in. After that, certain floors, like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005