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• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  , And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The ... are about five inches of the snow on the ground right now, and traffic ... Medical Students Association, and it took 2 ½ hours for the food to arrive

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Beaverheimer (Pi Day 2024) 3/14/24 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  .mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In, then click “Forgot Your Password?” and follow the instructions. If you still need help after that, feel free to email [email protected] and someone from the MIT Admissions team will get back to

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2024
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  , and How to Stay Private on the Internet, the list goes on and on.  MG ... "]witnessed.[/annotation] I let the chatter go on for maybe ten minutes, then walked to the ... "] Gandalf's mark on Bilbo's door[/caption] also known as the inciting

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  , you won't get the result you want on your first try, but you have to ... will. Welcome to the SAA: PATD 2010 on Vimeo. ... hard kicks in the face. (Remind me to tell you about how I failed my swim

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  to get on with the process of deciding among the schools that have ... haven't been reading your folders, working on plans for the big event. At ... quite a few years ago. Seeing the MITLeaks announcement on Monday reminded

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  copy of "The Tech" after work today. I was very excited to get my Tech ... skimmed it, looking for any mention of chairs. Nothing on the front page. I then turned to page 18 where I saw the title "Seats in Renovated 10

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  repercussions on the job market. First of all, it is very competitive to find a ... Career Path to Motherhood." The author, Louise Story, speaks with several ... number may be attributed to the fact that a similar percentage of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  on the internet and it was a wonderful experience to see what was out ... speech on the intricacy of Windows* and read this book to learn more. Me ... "Nat, to hack you need to understand systems better than the sys

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  this amazing makeover on our product in 20 short days. We went from the ugly mechanical monstrosity on the left to the more modern and sleek gate ... little depressing. But in the end it was all worth it. I got to work with

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  the blog, because I get to impart all kinds of advice from an almost ... information I can ask students and faculty in the graduate programs to which I ... need to figure out in order to decide on a program, therefore, is which

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

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  get to know the tools that they'll be working with later on, but I think ... nap on the beach and on the drive back, I remarked, "It's so nice not ... the third floor somewhere on MIT campus, frantically studying for my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  , calling to the surface a sense of pacing and beauty—on the sentence level ... single book on the list but now I realize that I am lazy. However, I feel ... denial, the gaping hole that the reader is forced to reckon with and fill

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  have to start drinking it in mushy cauliflower smoothies. On the other ... hackneyed clichés. But on my own terms. College is the best time to try what ... passed on to me. I counted. The word “how” appears 12 times in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  can spend time on details like dynamics or when to say the final /s/ at ... -of-semester concerts on the same weekend, which coincided with end-of-semester projects ... ! MITWE fall 2010, photo courtesy of The Tech. I decided to quit either

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  if a few electrons were to come near the foil, the charge on the ... from the three separate GEM foils that are stacked to make the final ... up to ten times. Researchers at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Open Thread: The Final Countdown a noble tradition of posting all day on the internet

  

  -is-offtopic-because-everything-is-offtopic asynchronous discussions with strangers on the Internet. Come post with us. You ... As you probably remember, we are launching the new MITAdmissions ... , ExpressionEngine, is, like my mom's 16 year old minivan with 250,000 miles on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  or so on the weekends) because I needed to drive. It's a calming ... plenty of free parking (oh the naivete). One of the "cons" on my pro ... I got kind of used to walking places and taking the T. Eventually I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  't find the fireplace in my dorm room to hang stockings on...) My Only ... But first I'm going to talk about the Toons. Some of you might ...  a cappella. Of course, the concert's not limited to just singing, because who

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Beta CPW laser mazes and deep frying

  

  day before that we invited the early pre-frosh arrivals to a welding ... help from other Course 6's and 2's to build out the circuitry piece by ... that he offered to share:       Hope to see you both -- and the rest of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  for the Institvte! This summer I’m on staff for the Research Science ... country and the world. They all come to MIT, stay in Simmons hall, and get paired with a mentor in the Boston area to do an original scientific

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011