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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summertime Science Got that summertime, summertime science...

  

  : (This is how I brainstorm most of my doodle entries, for those of you who ... to know is that I love science (and other things, like bluegrass music ... I love is my brother, Ryan. He is 11. This summer he told me he didn

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  downtime (besides playing with Legos) is watching the Colbert Report, which is one of my favorite television shows. During one recent episode ... recently coauthored a book on how higher education is failing in America

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  One of the things I truly love about MIT is that you never know when ... incorporating transparent concrete. Wait, what? So apparently there is something ... ) but it still reminded me about how much innovation there is in an

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  is why this exhibit makes me so happy. The List Visual Arts Center ... Not Be Such a Bad Idea if I Never Went Home, is really one of the best exhibits I have seen anywhere and is easily my favorite LVAC exhibit that I

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You’re Still Our No.1 :) less than 2 days left!

  

  decisions, everyone! :D --- WHY ART HISTORY IS AWESOME LIST OF ALL ... , this is a great commencement speech. So is this one. --- So it's a week before spring break. I'm super stressed. I don't know what is going on in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Well, you just cost me money.” Best. Desk Call. EVER.

  

  On any given day, you'll totally forget how awesome it is that you ... : hello, Bexley Desk guy: hi, is this MIT? me: this is a dorm at MIT. guy: can you connect me to the science department? me: this is a dorm, I don

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!

  

  weeks or so. But then there is this one week that just happens to fulfill ... .(except this is where the analogy breaks down. Blinkers at the same time ... this is, moon alignment, dark matter, spectro-cosmic impalation. (I made

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 6, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  program, and since then I've realized this is probably the most important ... need to figure out in order to decide on a program, therefore, is which programs fit me as a person. Fit is a buzzword that gets thrown around a lot

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update The title says it all.

  

  Well, Mystery Hunt is in full swing, and let me tell you, it is quite ... week. The thrill of solving a puzzle is just awesome. Obviously, I can ... all of sudden is crystal clear. We solved the puzzle and the next thing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool UROP position UROP opportunity: helping people fight obesity using robots

  

  -- Hardware The Robotic Life group in the Media Lab is looking for a UROP to ... relevant networking protocol. Job is essentially hacking existing hardware to ... . Interest in robotics and real-world applications of technology is important

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  been thinking about. one, the witness, which is about the meaningless ... universe, and yet is filled with bleak existential thoughts. if you've seen ... games like ddlc, which is why i still haven't played omori even though my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  up" is often completed with a "I want to be" or a "I will try to." We ... describe the distant future. However, that distant future is now, which is scary as hell. So what do I want to be when I grow up? Part of me is

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  "submit" as the January 1 deadline came and went. For some the wait is over ... opportunities that await. Since our desire is to make the best possible admission ... impressions of each applicant. While this external validation is an absolutely

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  everyone around me is stressed and apprehensive - sorry, friends. But really, "life after college" is a scary but also exciting topic to think about. Because for the first time in our lives perhaps, there is very little

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading ... Discovered About Myself Freshman Year... 1. There is no substitute for sleep. Caffeine is great in a pinch, but eventually the piper must be paid. 2. It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  Is it already the seventh week of the semester? To be honest, I ... say is that I've never really been able to take a break yet this ... although MIT is indubitably hard, much of the difficulty is self

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up ... is the heaviest one yet for me, both in terms of academics and non. So ... learning initiative, MITx, 6.002x is actually open to the world for

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  learning is like money laundering for tech - by maciej ceglowski "We should ... to live." THING I LEARNED: hindi text is encoded using the devanagari ... is में (encoded as \u092e\u0947\u0902). THING I WROTE: so how can we

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  reality. One such example is Mark Fayngersh '15. Mark is an exceptionally ... is a kickstarter called The Institvte: A Photobook: Hi! My name is Mark ... Institvte is a story about a school, its architecture and environment. Most of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Operabots with Personality Ahhhhh.....music to my ears

  

  The fact of the matter is that MIT is just plain cool. This is not an opinion, this is a fact. Just as the sun rotates around the earth……errrr uhhhhh……you know what I’m trying to say. MIT is cool. One of the things

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • August 26, 2009