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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  excuse of coffee since neither of us is a fan. One of his questions posed ... . And so one of my goals this year is to work on decision making. As the ... us is: It’s better to make a bad decision now than a good one too late

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a ... the MIT buildings are truly random, and that this place is special and ... MIT’s location is urban, but not describe the intimate atmosphere of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  's going on?" Friend: "..." Me: "...is that a parade?" Friend: "..." Me ... surprising -- it is, after all, a port city -- but that's far from all that makes Seattle the city it is. For lack of a better word, it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  cross! For those of you who don't know me, I'm Elizabeth. My hair is a ... ago, so perhaps you might be curious as to how different life is for me ... . But let me tell you - working at MIT is a suh-weet deal. All the awesome

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  was explaining why, because the human eye is innately attracted to bright objects, awkward s pa ci ng between words and letters is visually ... ourselves with is the existential crisis of some whiteness. But when something

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  your type is, there's always a group of people who share your interests. Maybe your type is playing with foam swords in a ball pit. Maybe your type is going to a classy business luncheon and networking with econ

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  ways you can spend your IAP. The MIT Externship program is expertly ... dozens of fields, open exclusively to MIT students. Although there is no ... . Every externship listing is different—some positions require interview

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  Episode V? He replaced it with a robot arm. And guess what. This is a robot ... scenes. Just like those 4D movies where the chairs move and wind is blown in your face. Except this is with reading.   Another project was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  weekend. Because that's how it is in my head, let's go through these in a ... other than that it is very much an experience more than it is a show ... game of cornhole. "What," you might ask, "in the world is cornhole?" As

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  rest of the integration is trivial,” or that “most people are introduced ... -in-the-grand-scheme-of-time-and-space-type insignificant, as hard to avoid as it is.) 1) Stop. Collaborate and Listen. (Ice is back with my brand new invention) 90’s song references aside… Be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  times that these tips are most crucial. Taking care of yourself is ... How not to do it. (A dinner from last summer) This is probably the one ... accompanies sleepless nights. People will have competitions over whose week is

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  One of my NRAO friends is a big fan of the band "Drive-By Truckers ... happy to tag along. (It is very telling that when the crowd started ... looking at?" he asked. No stars, I replied: my friend is studying Saturn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I ... effects is so paramount in my life that it surprises others and myself when ... perspective for at least 45 seconds. Here it is, if you've missed it: "When

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  My hope is that in the next p-set and class-filled 48 hours, I eat ... month, what makes me feel guilty (and thus what makes me post again) is my ... reason I'm writing this right now is because Snively '11 sent an email to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  that there is such a thing as a stupid question (the answer was right there on the lecture handout). That being said, he was - and is - one of ... Undergraduate Teaching, the nomination and selection of which is determined

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  , there's a class called 2.009 that is one of the Mechanical Engineering ... aforementioned finger! Yes,  The truth is, I know so much about 2.009 because I ... . Unfortunately, the former is largely determined by your machine. In particular

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  food (this makes freshmen 15 unavoidable...). Anyways the point is that I feel that at almost any time at MIT on campus, there is free food lurking ... friends back home. This is how our conversation went down:Friend: What

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  reading/evaluating applications, the summer is the primary time during the ... - so here it is. Enjoy! ----- This place immediately brought back ... Questbridge College Admissions Conference at Yale. The idea in a nutshell is to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  Mind, but this is most often the Linguistics Department) while still ... simultaneously." The hope is that by analyzing a lot of languages, we'll see ... listener. What surprised me at first is that even though my current career

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  time. But if a challenge is laid down for the MIT community, odds are you ... fraternity. "I wanted to change our cause to one that is closer to the hearts ... Yuschenkoff, the service chair at Kappa Alpha Theta, philanthropy is as good for

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011