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• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  . Life after it happens is at least semi-solid enough to serve on a plate ... a second UROP in MIT's Plasma and Fusion Center, read a paper on ... cold. I have this secret dream that I will someday be the first person to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  living situation--I was able to move part of the way through the second ... , it is now I make my triumphant return to these blogs.The timing is ... things at MIT? Where to live is a subject that is frequently touched on in

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  as we love to call her, has the most incredible view on design, and ... hackathons from around the world, and do everything else necessary to run a ... HackMIT, the club I sold my soul to at the beginning of freshman fall and

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  last six weeks of the class were dedicated entirely to working on the ... important skill to have as an engineer"]depended on whether the system ended ... and I had initially feared. On the contrary, we managed to hit all our

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  to sell my organs piece by piece on the global black market, I'm pretty ... advisor. On a day-to-day basis, I work independently... after working in the ... since the beginning of the summer. I've done a lot of assays to explore

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  (on the right). Photo credit to Sophie de Loubens, one of our JSF guides ... Parisians who were very acquainted with the historical background and day-to-day workings of the city, so we got to learn about things like the design process

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  have to rely on my kitchen for dinner, not a dining hall; I have to wake ... . You get to try a career for a few months to test the waters. If you don ... enjoyed the experiences I’ve had in labs, but I started to realize that it

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  . "Early on, I knew what idea I wanted to present to the MIT community but as ... girls to see), and I had someone stop me on the street and ask me if I was ... perspective on how this initiative developed and the people who helped make it

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  . On our way to the very first competition, we began having a ... idea in his head that I'm going to take the Physics II test (based on the ... the bus ride briefing me on all I needed to know for this unit and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  fiftieth anniversary Woodstock ones. They'll be put to good use on the thank ... My Name is Earl and listening to the first Interpol album. The second ... attribute it to a few factors. The sun goes down at 4 pm. It's cold, so you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  and the admissions committee will not be able to see it. Preview: On ... not yet appeared on your MyMIT Tracking; the deadline for ECs to submit ... ) deadline, November 1. I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  trips to do some "real" climbing, and I hopped on the first one I could out to Rumney in New Hampshire. Then the second one to Quincy Quarries ... up to a cave (visible on the top left here), a difficult overhung

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  inevitably does), we pile the stuff next to it. At the end of the year, we like to go through all of the stuff we collected, and reflect on the ... to see this, but it was an awesome show put on by the Musical Theater

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  the questions I have to answer upon returning to active duty is: where ... -1 only has two days left on Hulu!", or d) all of the above). However ... shape in time to fill out the teacher application form for Splash, and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  me proud to be at MIT. Being back on campus means being back in the ... despite everything, it’s hardest to leave. So what’s the third year like ... what my post-graduation plans were on the student financial aid form. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  in the last two weeks, i've been invited to two parties in the bay ... group text with all the other company interns in the bay. it was a link to ... , and the one i attended was, somehow, yet another new experience. on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  I'm beginning to think the foliage is out to get me. I was hit by another leaf, on the foot, two days ago. It wasn't a gentle smack, but it ... ! (Affirmative.) It's really hard for me to explain the nerd stereotype; the best

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  an impact on the reader. If you want to diffuse power you can do it by ... sentence. On the other hand, you can condense power to shock or to exaggerate ... letting them read at the end of your second revision. Ask them to read after

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  . Here they are - we're super excited to have them on the team! Say ... extraordinary and vibrant, and to make technological inroads that would change the ... !!!!!!! Lol...... Why the caps, to be honest, I am not really sure. I was just

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  common for people to go the other way on the Red Line and end up in Harvard ... other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a ... classes or about careers, and the only barrier to becoming close to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006