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• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  Thanksgiving. I spent most of it watching Food Network and The Jeffersons on TV ... DID YOU KNOW? The first time I ever went to New York City it was to see Lucy Lawless play Rizzo in a Broadway production of Grease. After 18

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  step of the problem once again, and walked out with a smile on her face ... -time PCR on patient DNA to determine the breakpoints of their large deletion ... 5.0 G.P.A. Rhodes Scholar One of Glamour Magazine's Top 10 College

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  as fast as possible, enjoying the flavor for a second and moving on to ... Given that tomorrow is pi(e) day, a celebration of irrational numbers ... experiment. Let’s imagine that one day, a pang of hunger strikes you as though

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  of the paper on my project. Adam got home around 5, and we picked up ... flesh. Isn't it nice that it says "1620" on it? How thoughtful of the ... it's a bit of a walk from the lab and because it's kind of expensive

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  their far too clunky suitcases onto the airport shuttle, I feel a pang of regret wash over me. New waves of kiddos are coming in to make MIT their ... I eventually tire and leave them and join new things in hopes of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  of Black Engineers "National Member of the Year." A Leadership New ... 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

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• 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 / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  . On Monday, I picked up a copy of the Rune, MIT's art and literary ... , procrastinating on pre-summer Design/Build/Fly lab cleanup by writing this blog post ... just walked out of my last freshman year class and that a full quarter of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  , from the same website, found within 5 minutes of each other with ... TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me ... a taste of things to come. Item 1: How hosed am I? According to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  of astronauts by creating new spacecrafts that generate artificial ... the effects of head turns in artificial gravity on the neurovestibular ... , found this UROP on the UROP website. The Man Vehicle Laboratory often

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  Today is the first day of classes, and, as new MIT students are introduced to the fun of the firehose, we also wanted to introduce our new bloggers to you! On July 1, we posted the blogger application; by the end of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  .017 Urban Space and Society (New) Units: 3-0-9 Focuses on how the spaces of ... . Concentrates on selected problems such as the welfare economics of "health" as a ... on control design. Extensive use of computer-aided control design tools

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  Freshman orientation for the Class of 2018 officially begins in two weeks. Next week, however, some students will begin arriving on campus to participate in one of 22 Freshman Pre-Orientation Programs (FPOPs), which offer

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

  Scholarship for future engineers Chance to win $2,000

  

  Are any of you high school seniors who are Massachusetts residents ... Engineers Scholarship. The application has been posted on the ASHRAE's Boston Chapter website (ashraeboston.org). They are awarding 14 scholarships in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  More free stuff Free sneak previews of films and how to beat the casino.

  

  On the topic of free benefits for MIT students... Tonight (Wednesday) on campus, there's a free sneak preview of Tim Burton's Corpse Bride ... on programs such as 20/20. Mezrich's previous work is the basis of a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  but it is still cold worked at a big place where people watch games on line and made bits go fast bought and killed some green things made new ... the sun and in the cold played lots of games got back into hitting

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  research. I miss going to college websites and reading through all of their ... tours. I miss feeling out of place on those tours. I miss seeing MIT for ... like of all the people that go on these tours, I could maybe be one of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Introduction To ROTC At MIT A new guest-author blog in response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC programs at…

  

  this past spring. In response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC, it's my pleasure to introduce a new guest-author blog that will help ... assume a challenging leadership role early on, and an opportunity to serve

  • by ROTC
  • August 14, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  you write on it and try to erase, it leaves smears or shadows of what ... whiteboard is definitely dirty by the end) intended to be used on new ... ’ll get out all of the long-term stains that are on the whiteboard. Squeeze

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  proper technique, apparently, involves consideration of the color, firmness ... friends to come to a new place where we have to learn to rely on ourselves. Part of the experience is making new friends and finding a way to call

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013