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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  morning when I jumped on a trapeze and did not miss. I want to share the ... community. This means walking down the hallway to greet smiling friends, then ... ideal college, and now I get to grow here. The speed of the transition

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

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  cactus on the plane.) After the academic fair we moseyed on over to the ... one to wait around, I matriculated on Snively's iPod Touch. The most ... me on a tour that night. After the tour, I retired back to Burton

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  to pop culture references, pop music and the like. If it wasn’t for ... . Franco? The technical awards go to engineers and scientists that make most ... love the word nerd, I was quick to post a reply that said something about

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  themselves or to their friends, they do try to envision you here on the campus ... various projects you worked on or groups you belonged to and worked with ... important to you and why. They will also talk about what you added to the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  know all that stuff! Try to center the story on you. Looking back and ... The fall transfer application deadline is coming up. I tried to ... -time, so I had to budget my time carefully. I made the plan to do most of my

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  (towards the end of the camp, the counselors try to do 30 distinct proofs on ... Matt mentioned on the page had passed, oops =/), and from the standpoint ... 't recall the names of these people except the guy right next to me (he's at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  lifted; I want to cross the hallway, knock on everyone's doors, and play ... I don't want the summer to end. I don't want to pack the rice cooker ... the summer to end. I want to move to Floorpi and sleep in my new room

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Oh The Things I’ve Seen Warning: Hold on to your socks

  

  the last month. (Warning: Hold on to your socks) TV Shows: Southland House Lie to Me Bones Men of a Certain Age The Game Meet the Browns Numb3 ... chance to take a seminar during the last week of IAP in which we discussed

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  , solving brain-busting puzzles, and taking classes on the other side of the ... ended to anyone who was interested. The American Meteorological Society ... staring at The Weather Channel for hours on end as a child, and having a

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of ... techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It’s emotions ... , I’ve never used it on manual. But observing the effects of exposure

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  extremely interesting, and I really want to go on more trips with them in the ... adventure with the MIT Caving Club. I really enjoyed it, and I wanted to ... Grotto has to the Freedlyville Quarry. The quarry entrance was about a mile

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  ’ve been on campus for just over three weeks, and, according to the Google ... up in and boarded a one-way flight to Boston. The rain was moody and ... . To pass the time and take my mind off the enormous, mysterious

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  well, do I? All of us at the debate. From left to right: Dwight, Chris ... my feelings on where we are and where we need to be going, and why ... . Unfortunately, I didn't get my column in on time, and the next issue of the Tech

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  be buttoned to the buttons on their own side of the coat (folding the coat outside in the process, to create a collar). then the buttonholes on ... those buttons to be further down, but based on the jacket it seems like

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Art & Science in Paris

  

  centered on a sculpture by the architect Ciro Najle. This internship ... exhibition for Fall 2011 that is focused on the large-scale sculpture Cummulus ... learned more about the different developments pertaining to what Labo calls

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  long night ahead of you." Great. The thing is, I know how to handle these ... over her equations, only to be jolted back awake by the heavy beat of ... working, this video will be to be the most important piece of art around

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I ... 's some information on what we're going to study: What is 14.11? 14.11 is a new class on the topic of field (that is, "in situ") and laboratory

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  —for example, last week a group of FASAPers embarked on a trip to the American ... regular 2-hour weekly meetings during the Fall term. Compared to Traditional ... events include free tickets to contemporary art performances at the ICA and

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  . But I didn't want to be the guy who was estimating my position in the class, relative to how other friends were doing on exams and p-sets. I didn't want to be the guy who inquired about GPAs, or put my resume or

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  around three months trying to replicate the experimental results of his ... . Sid says that the UROP is great chance to gain lab experience and he ... applied to the Langer Lab knowing that he was not as experienced as other

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005