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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  I had literally never taken a screen shot until I got to MIT ... actually using up all the change in your wallet before you can accumulate any ... got a hold of my laptop and started sending even more lobsters out to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  ). So just in case you don't want to watch the entire video here are a few ... time we also just go get food together or go to the movies, but all in ... what I did in my free time there was a ton of things to do. I was on TV

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  then you immediately start running through your memory in order to ... exponentially. In just a week or so of classes I feel I have come to understand ... only a week at MIT I have already come to fall in love with every part of

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  For Applicants Admitsphere.org, four hens, two ducks, best wishes and high regard from Mac-town, Oregon

  

  to say, take a look at admitsphere.org. Admitsphere was devised by a ... a central, open-source, online hub that high school students look to in order to learn how to win at high school, college applications, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 27, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  . Plan to partition your room evenly if you have a roommate. If you take a ... ’re happy to help. Cheers, and see you in a month! Important P.S.: Let me ... compiled a packing list for students here, to be used with caution. Some

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  presentation for 16.810, we made a short video. Here it is for you to enjoy ... If you're considering MIT, you probably like to build things. Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  in a world where the same rules apply to them. This is the same country ... a flash, in the same moment it takes to flip a coin, they destroyed ... in Nigeria, virtually everyone has the same dark skin. Sure, there’s a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  who are brave enough to live in the dorms with your kids! You'll get a ... thinking about a career in medicine? This would be a good one to attend. 12 ... as I write this and should be finished in a few days. Your host will

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  I discuss how to get scientists more involved in advocacy, and what a ... physicist!" At this point, a number of people are trying to get Rep. Holt ... waited in a long line to walk through metal detectors. The nice view of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  parents love getting to visit me in Boston. The Parent Lounge: I hope you ... Headquarters/check-in. It's a good place to relax, and to meet other parents. It ... Registration who aren't used to driving in Boston (or a similar city, like San

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  ones in which I get to dispense laughs or in which I get a chance to ... call the "Nance Effect" a home of sorts, thank you for your continued ... blog seems to really resonate with many in cyberspace. It is hard to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  application process that should be at the top of your To Do list: the interview ... Educational Counselor (EC). The interview itself is usually conducted in your home town – or someplace close – in an informal setting like a coffee

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  other day (and once in a blue moon, on a Saturday) and expects to see your ... , but another critic zooms in on a detail. You do know that your building ... experience showed me once again how easy it is to get lost in the production of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  you get to put your gown on and wait to graduate. I found about a ... dolphin smuggling was a bit more covert. There was no way to sneak them in ... and wave and say hi to a black guy sitting in the same spot on a bench

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  entries, but the short version of the story is that I’m currently a freshman ... ’s only all-female dormitory. MIT women choose to live here for a variety of ... , and triples, and the Annex is a fairly recent addition to Mc

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  shop in Seattle), and I gathered to select the bloggers who will join our ... answering a surprise Final Fantasy question in quiz bowl finals, while wearing ... legitimate tears of joy for the first time in my life when a Playstation 4

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  meeting, he gave me a list of professors to get in touch with. One of them ... investigating inflation in “brane world” models.” His MIT faculty page says that ... been my advisor for about a year. He told me to call him Alan. During

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  ) minutes and then go to bed. But if I start a book, that book is getting ... unfortunately, "just a few hours" is not short enough to start a book at 11.30 pm ... [annotation note="I'm kinda lonely in NYC lol. Post on that coming soon..."]not a lot[/annotation]to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  -credit basis to drivers until they’ve paid off and own their own vehicle. In ... and I are working on measuring the power it takes to pedal a rickshaw. Long story short, part of the project involves using a Vernier Lab Quest

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  applied to MIT in the first place. And now that you're in and you've sent ... get in on the action even if you think that throwing a pot can be ... , you won't get the result you want on your first try, but you have to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010