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• Blog / MIT Life

  Knowing me, knowing you My plans for Nobel laureacy, and everything I like about MIT professors.

  

  when. You can count on me, can't you? I think I eventually come to love ... that Frau Bittner used to wear, how Professor Virk compares drag reduction to the AC/DC song "Highway to Hell" and how Professor Dalzell is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Orientation Wrap-Up Reason #457 why I love Orientation: I don't have to pay for food for a…

  

  goes that you should not have to spend any money on food for at least ... been touched on yet. "/> Our CityDays project involved going to the ... advantage of our free rides on the T, we went to JP Licks. Susan Hockfield

  • by Bryan
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  surface of high-temperature superconductors in an attempt to understand how ... you will enjoy. He says, "Remember that you're under no obligation to ... 's time to look elsewhere." Outside of the lab, Vivek enjoys playing on the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  ’s-eye pictures of it, which I was unable to get as I am not, in fact, a bird (as previously mentioned). Also, I only had ten minutes to get back to my calculus lecture, and with my exceptional ability to get lost in any and all

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  what it's like to be an admissions officer on the road. Tuesday ... Beverly Hills and went to bed on East Coast time. Wednesday, September 3nd ... we pick which schools to visit on any given trip lies in that strange

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Howdy From The Middle Of RA Selection It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought…

  

  knew that. I need to get back to it - more updates when there's something to report. Enjoy the rest of your weekends! ... 'd say hi. We began RA selection on Friday morning, with the official

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  gather for our meeting to get us prepared to read your thousands of ... each have read this weekend, getting on the same page as far as what ... Welcome those of you who have just joined us! I encourage you to read

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline & Taking Questions Advice for RA applicants; I'll answer questions Thursday.

  

  and for it to appear on your Application Tracking. Our records office is ... Office postmark and mail your materials on or before January 1. However, I ... note that you do not need to express mail or overnight your application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  long enough to actually work on my Computation Systems lab due in two ... are scared and we aren’t sure when things are going to get back to normal again. I was lucky enough to get a housing exception from MIT which

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  ‘12 and I were the only prefrosh to go on the tour of the dorm. It ... seriously how I am feeling at the moment. Like a lot of prefrosh, I am dealing with a lot of senioritis (yes, there is a wikipedia article on it) and I

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  impossible. So now, I get to start of my days writing in bed as opposed to ... high school, getting into MIT, moving to campus, etc. I haven't gotten used to how quickly life can change, even if the anticipation for the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  Songela '19 (who works at CSC) light some things on fire, and also to watch ... Jamilla Jamison (formerly of our office, now at Harvey Mudd), about how to ... experts in your field of research. As such, the best strategy is to provide

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several ... first task was to figure out how big the room was. This posed an immediate ... , it's necessary to record your observations, so I whipped out some

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  students from an underachieving high school to getting into Tokyo University ... enjoyable drama (to waste time on while procrastinating for psets, lol =p) and ... Todai on big poster boards in front of the campus and you have to go to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  separated into since they helped me understand how I wanted to separate warm ... grants of between $50 and $250 to pods and virtual groups for art supplies. The intention was to support "shared art experiences for learning

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  extra socks (it's just starting to get extra freezing here in New England ... otherwise, even the little voice in your head that's telling you to just strap on your hiking boots and go for a twelve-hour apple picking trip this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life as a Talent Scout I could be the next Randy Jackson.

  

  , Battle of the Bands, I went to check out a potential band for the competition. So on the way there, I stopped at Burger King on the way and tried the Cheesy Tots. I don't even want to know how many years of my life I

  • by Bryan
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  that one’s foldable enough to take on the go, I cried silently. I need ... 's all of the bags I have... for now. But I'm always trying to get that bag ... of a place or event I've been to. I think it's nice how they come with

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I try to think of how I'm feeling, all I get is static in response ... that are happening to you, but how are you?" I didn't have a good answer ... fantastical outfits, splurging on drinks and food as they swayed to music that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  walk to the department so you can get a taste of what it's like to study ... The grass is always greener on the other side. Or that's what they say anyways.  When I applied to the Cambridge- MIT Exchange (CME

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014