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• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  MIT campus is defined and elevated by its people, and for this blogpost ... -controlled planes for fun, often building them from scratch (some of which he featured ... freshman-year jolt MIT is known for. He admits to feeling like hot stuff

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  a wet towel and let sit for a few hours FILLING (VEGETARIAN ... (try this or this for guidance, but it doesn't really matter as long as ... visited last weekend) (and margie and lauren for their photography)

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  this year. Although our application does not go live for another few ... are required of you. Tell us about something you do simply for the ... -250 words) Describe the world you come from; for example, your family, clubs

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  are reading this post. If you are in high school, you may be looking for ... why? To get into MIT? The truth is that the algorithm for college ... your health and literally sucks the life out of you. Now, for once, you

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  Shout out to the MIT VPN for helping me climb the Great Firewall. Facebook and google are banned, but for some reason Facebook Messenger still ... summer--researching at the Media Lab and going to Ethiopia for the water

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  -minute multimillion-dollar gift from an anonymous individual known for years only as "Mr. Smith ... the water,” says MIT Professor Mark Jarzombek PhD ’86. One argument for ... island sketch with a space for MIT’s new campus. I am glad we are in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Top Blog Posts of 2015 widely viewed and capturing the essence of 2015

  

  2015 has had its ups and downs for pretty much everyone on planet ... Together by Neerja A. '16015 A Penny for Your Thoughts by Erick P. '17 ... Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) by Yuliya K. '18 Tips and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  graduate). Upon logging in for the first time, I was rather pleased to find ... This morning, desperately procrastinating studying for a 6.042 midterm ... CourseRoad is right for you!

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  to pranks of years past".   I stood outside admiring the hack for ...         Onlookers pose for pictures with the ... same for the cows. Those tender, tender cows.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  -finals bonfire. Our notes for the semester were the guests of honor. I remember ... late nights psetting.  It wasn't unusual for us to spend more time ... job interviews then applying for more online. I remember playing with

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  experimental, part-edX class called Creating Digital Learning Materials for ... in East Campus for free, bond with Ceri R. ‘16, who was also taking 7.S ... . ‘16 made an episode for and which Elizabeth C. ‘13 runs! They make all

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  junior fall (now). In the summer, for Elizabeth C. 13's Science Out Loud ... shows you where I work-- at the wonderful Whitehead Institute for ... @mit.edu. Huge thank you and shout out to Science Out Loud for this great

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  Kellen Manning, Communications Coordinator for MIT's Division of Student ... me an explanation of what DSL is trying to do with it (and, for that ... communicate what life is like for MIT students: the good, the bad, and the meh

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.

  

  (Head Honcho of the Bloggers and Senior Counselor for Web Communications ... , and Freedom University (a college for undocumented students).   ... Gore, founder of Citizens for Retiring the Penny.   And if you

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  times I feel a lot of pressure.  But for the most part, when people find ... press passes and tickets since I take pictures for my cousin's news ... at a company like the one I am interning for now once I become a real

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  (sometimes) funny. A few months ago I decided I wanted to make one for the ... to scripts, a free hosting service operated by MIT students for the MIT ... group of friends were executed for treason — мιтα∂мιѕѕισηѕ (@mitblogs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  I owe you an explanation for my absence (and you'll get WAY more ... : After my last final on December 20, I flew home to London for winter break. On January 2, I flew to DC for a huge astronomy conference. There, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  in the wrong direction, I saw Random Hall for the first time. As I ... community, primarily freshmen, to know them. Always on the lookout for free ... 's integrated so well into my ongoing college experience that heading to ADPhi for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  officially registered for 8.01, but took special seminars and the 8.012 final ... .05.) 21W.778 Science Journalism (I won $350 from the writing department for ... Beethoven to Mahler: 1800-1910 (SO excited for this) 21L.??? Old English (OLD

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  hacking tools to make a guide for sales engineers but what I found was a 10 ... put out by the powerful hackers who do this for a living. Script Kiddies ... . Writing Test Tools The last week and a half has been writing test tools for

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013