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• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  This semester, I'm living in New Vassar, the newest undergrad dorm on ... well as the design of the little overhangs on the [annotation note ... , though, for warmer weather, though that fencing on the street side of it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  community involvement on our website via the blogs several years ago. But ... , and especially on Facebook, across a variety of groups maintained not by ... time has gone on, both of these things have changed. One thing which has

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  Happy New Year to all of you! I spent a good 30 minutes this morning hogging wifi and using the textplus app on my iTouch to wish my friends back ... last week to a small rural area of India called Anaikatti. Since then, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  fall in New House 1, formerly Russian House) living groups in order of ... roommate or a room on another floor; of course, you might also decide to move ... . (Just For Fun: Click on this link and scroll down to the picture of Senior

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  teams can win up to $5,000! I spent a lot of IAP working on my website ... nights spent laughing on the floor of someone’s room. rather than just ... , suffolk ice breaker @ new balance after flying in on sunday, the team got

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  on a test that had not yet been shown to be a good indicator of a ... the validity of the test. More on this over the coming year... At this ... Yesterday's New York Times had another article about the new SAT, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  you score a 5 on Calculus BC, you can get out of 18.01, Single-Variable Calculus. If you score a 5 on both Physics C tests, you can get out of 8 ... unit credit for a lot of other AP tests, and if you score a 5 on English

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  events on our campus and we're thrilled that so many of you will be here to ... welcome to attend this program on the hows, whys and whens of financial aid ... on the experiences of the UROP student panel as moderated by UROP staff

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  a bunch of Python scripts on brand new fancy shmancy data collected by ... dotted lines, and stack the sections on top of each other - in other words ... like this: Bam. Pulsar. Of course, our data nowadays doesn't come on a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  complete (such as audio transcription, which is what I worked on). Of course ... not matter. My company had lots of nice perks, like free lunch on ... intern at a start-up that focuses on artificial intelligence and data

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  impression was, "Wow, there are a lot of stairs." I live on the 4th floor of ... a very appended rundown of the happenings on campus for me. -- Fire ... prize. On day 2 of being on campus, we got evacuated from our rooms in the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  time on the positive side of the emotional spectrum. She recently created ... some days I literally bounce out of bed and others where I wish a ... , haha) could have been used to describe me. Thanks to one of my friends

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  , alumni, and staff. On Monday, Andrew Fire, a professor at Stanford who ... -developing a technique called RNA interference (RNAi). RNAi gives scientists the amazing ability to turn genes on and off at their whim. I used RNAi during

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  we want you to know. One of the first posts I've read on the blogs, and ... . Sure, there are a lot of books and websites covering the different ... Push" will instead trigger a spray of bullets on anyone stupid enough to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  On the most excellent advice of my blog-readers, I have added D-Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor ... mortar to hold together. And of course the machine should be fast and

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  for the next four years without having to be (as) afraid of failure ... allowances made for extraordinary circumstances - but you shouldn't rely on it ... the luxury of being within walking distance of one of the world

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  tune of the first Attack on Titan theme, which is still on my running ... ="1000"] an ABRUPT glow up[/caption] Feeling extremely on top of the world ... Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  to it. So, here's a snapshot of what I'm doing RIGHT NOW, at 11:52am on ... on the wall, with a picture of a spiral galaxy, and a Frisbee on the ... , because we're geeks, and a cup of Something Caffeinated on our desks

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  drove two hours to New Haven on the morning of and two hours back the same night. This was a lot of firsts for me: first time driving on a long trip ... experiencing the very real sketchiness of New Haven at night), and then it was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  the privilege to interact with the new cool kids on the block. Can ... range of events you can attend at MIT. A New Hobby! I have a new hobby ... travel on my own. I guess those aren’t tiny, as the title of the sketch

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018