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• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  follow-up stalking (I like to think of this as "scanning for comments by my ... to surround a gap year. One of the concepts that I found particularly ... have ever met, a lot of whom have degrees from MIT. It was pretty cool to

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  about these things is not by forcing myself to think of them — they ... in the sense of rushing to try and get an answer. yes, the answers to ... relate back to the big question of what I want out of life. There are three

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  , and staff alike have been uploading their photos to the website, which ... interesting to see not just what people do over the course of a typical day, but ... gave me the opportunity to take a million pictures of the disastrous

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  Representative. During my second year Apple flew all of the Campus Reps to the ... - senior VP at Google - wrote about Steve's devotion to design: One Sunday ... was stored on top of a tall cabinet out of harm's way. The very first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  Hi, I’m Mollie! I used to go here. I was one of the OG bloggers ... talent at building tiny airplanes led to him being offered a job at Google ... ’s a bit of a Star Wars nut, and recently, he’s been on a quest to build

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since ... Google Glass to help kids with autism, ADHD, and Social-Emotional Learning ... making iOS and Android app versions of the Google Glass apps that can be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  spurred a faculty task force that produced a set of recommendations to ... banning the recruitment of transgender people to the military. While the ... on behalf of undocumented and international students, to reaffirm our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  basically variations of "where to buy industrial sized vats of SPF 50" 3) It's time for those of you who might want to be bloggers ... mission of the blogs is to allow our bloggers to express to the world what

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  wins a competition to become the apprentice to one of the most recognizable real-estate moguls in the world. For those of you who haven't heard ... Association and the Black Alumni of MIT Association organized a huge event at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Solution: Are we going to win? Guess where I am!

  

  . Since MIT lives in numbers instead of words, the next step is to gather ... Can you guess where I am right now? Points to the most creative ... going to win? "Here is my schedule. I just can't seem to get the times

  • by Bryan
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  adventure to see all. of. the. pretty. trees. Through a combination of biking ... , looking for any and all signs of fall. My only directive was to maximize the ... need to find a station to check in). This general lack of planning and

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  students an early introduction to in the social life of learning at MIT. As ... Freshman orientation for the Class of 2018 officially begins in two weeks. Next week, however, some students will begin arriving on campus to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  through my Google Drive to confirm my suspicion that i was drowning in ... regarding choosing between two sets of double majors, or how i’m applying to ... exercise my creativity in the way i want to instead of throwing a stream-of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  pictures of them to show everyone. For those of you that don't know, MIT is ... of students dislike the idea of having to cross the bridge every ... "far" from campus forces me to plan ahead rather than fall into a bad

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2005 Economics Nobel MIT's intellectual monopoly over game theory knowledge continues. (~9 pictures)

  

  . Schelling. The Nobel website has a nice summary of their work on "conflict and cooperation through the lens of game theory." Aumann actually is an MIT alum ... , the 2005 Nobels in Economics were announced. Congrats to the two 2005

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  their time! Try to get your application components to us in advance of the ... deferred to regular action for further consideration (and some of those will ... If you are applying to MIT this year (early or regular), here's an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  goodness of Barbeque Lay's (okay, so maybe to mediocre health). And I can ... 't, attack befriend the nearest hipster and then come back to the end of this post. If you do, hopefully you have access to an obscene amount of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  about some of the awesome and amazing people that I went to school with ... can teach generations of MIT students how to create anything they ... . Image courtesy of Joseph Lee.  Want to watch him fold it? Yes, he

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  , when thousands of bloggers dedicate their blogs to talking about one ... wanting to acknowledge it as a possibility) I know that a percentage of this ... secondary options? I have some in mind, but none of them seem to match up to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  because I forgot to adjust for the President's Day holiday, oh well) 21W ... . Forces! Trusses! Flying Buttresses! For undergraduate and graduate students ... little seminar where we're presumably taught how to design spaces while

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009