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• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  Junior year pretty much ws a gigantic ride on the struggle bus for me ... semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical ... to do. We apply what we learn in a big design project... where we make

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  white letters on a green backdrop, three Greek letters. *** A few weeks ... under a mound of problem sets and midterms. However, each time I'm thought ... . First: I remember being a speck among many one afternoon, staring across a

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

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  This past March, a few days after my birthday, I spent a Saturday teaching three iterations of a three-hour-long class called Hands-on Introduction to DNA! to seventh through ninth graders at Spark, a day

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  friends back home to make them jealous.  Here's a quick recap of what I ... was as good a time as any to cast off my noobishness.  I'm taking Intro to Python (6.S189), and it's actually a really fun class.  In the first

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  July and Unified O.O and lots of pictures

  

  I have a billion things to say about this semester already and I ... ?                                               Before I go back to this summer, my life thus far has been a conglomoration ... without setting off any alarms (a sure sign of sophomore-ish maturity, or so

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 14, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  Howdy homies! Has it really been over a year since I posted this ... you but it's like, I AIN'T EVEN MAD because you're in such a good mood ... song that you play in your head as you walk around like a badass until

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  While many of our students have known for a quite some time that MIT ... have thought that another institution was a better (gasp) match for them ... programs have had their own App developed by a participant, just to keep

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a ... LGBTQ community, and with “food at MIT”  just to name a few. This last one is one of my favorites and I get a number of emails in my inbox from

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  within a diverse community while developing skills in areas of problem ... students will develop a community among their peers, facilitated by MIT ... experience. My own description is a little shorter: The best six days of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  in a literary magazine in high school, I knew it was something I want to continue doing. So what is RUNE as a club like? We are a group of ... inclusion in a glossy magazine published annually at the end of the spring

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  I like eating. I like eating a lot. By which I mean both that I ... was a sophomore in college I once ate for the Internet. I had missed a few meals so I ordered a large cheese pizza, a large grilled chicken

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  I didn't include a lot of biographical detail in my biography (whoops!), so here's something you should know: at MIT, I am a proud ... finally gave out bids to some awesome freshmen (and a sophomore!). They'

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  . As it turns out, this semester was.....well....I learned a lot of ... feeling a little less than confident, I haven't felt like I have any place ... things! So what exactly am I up to for the summer? Well a little bit of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  like a middle-age technology reporter. It's like Fight Club, or being a ... sports updates (they also have a twitter). MIT News has a twitter as well ... . While totally awesome, this is also a really terrible plan. Luckily, he

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  It feels a little strange seeing CPW from a host's perspective this year instead a prefrosh's: there's less of the aimless wandering, the ... place so far, which is okay because I'm a host and not obligated to be

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  Burlington area, which averages a bit over five feet of snow every year. While ... year you actually have several feet of snow that serves as a sort of ... Mountains, we spent every New Years outside by a 64 square foot bonfire

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  You may recall back in March of this year there were a couple blog ... a visit to campus from the President is pretty darn special. Of course ... , so they're going to ticket the event by invitation only with a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  , and otherwise fulfill me. So far, I've met a *ton* of companies. I can ... that I am not a match for, some which would be alright, and only one (so ... they're also incredibly selective. I'm beginning to be a little more

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  a series of articles about incoming MIT students. These articles ... , and the students are going to be great members of the MIT community. A ... state in the class), are very underrepresented. For a full look at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  thinks they . . . anyway, we're talking about Harvard here. There's a ... prospectives or tourists, I explain that the rivalry is kind of a one way rivalry ... 's main entrance. As I walked up the steps I noticed a white sign tied up

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009