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• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  I will no longer see Professor Winston, one of the few professors who ... with kindness, candor, wisdom and integrity. I will be forever grateful ... " Full letter from Reif will be posted at president.mit.edu Facebook

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Newly Admitted Student Events… ...coming to your neighborhood.

  

  . Beginning Saturday MIT alumni from around the world will host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to the Class of 2015. If there's one in your ... Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  an ultrahigh vacuum. The microscope will now be used to image the ... Researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab ... years under the guidance of Dr. Eric Hudson. Scanning tunneling

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  rigor) to decide whether or not you will be able to do the work here. Take ... DON'T TAKE IT AGAIN." You will be judged exactly the same as anybody who ... before so be easy on us, but the way this is supposed to work is that we

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  clue as to what this post will be about. Anybody who read my last post ... usage. The other reason many people found the college essay to be Not Fun ... college essay is a lot of work, but the work should not be bad; the reason

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  , do you think you will be able to complete the core sequence of 2 ... . I hope the rest of you will similarly find this useful. "MIT is just ... enjoy the culture? Is MIT somewhere you can see yourself being at for the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  the said book. Anyhow, it was quite exciting to be in such distinguished ... question posed, but given that private investors would be willing to sponsor ... , there's usually a table in the back of the room that's piled full of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  preparing for the world that I would be presented once I left the comforts of ... hardest transitions for me were when I came to MIT, it would be the ... in a long time, the only person I had to be responsible for was myself

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  ; most importantly being the producer, a.k.a me. The producers for last ... to be the build director was much harder. The previous build director ... for us to be able to do anything in the fall semester. Unfortunately

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  be something new, but for others the meeting with your Educational Counselor (EC) may be the first interview you’ve ever had. Some of you may still be trying to figure out who your EC is so let's talk a bit about the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  updates on this today. I still love the color orange. I will be ... purpose, but I am not sure what list is better. I'm moving out and will be ... ; after all, I probably shouldn't be the grad student who scooters

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  blogging. Which will be a sad day. ---- So I'm now living in THE NYC, on ... , however, NOT my last blog. That is coming, and (I promise!) it will be still ... being 23. I'm 22, so I fit just below the average age of my class. It's a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  also not been involved yet, but really want to be! They are the gender ... informal meet and greet! Snacks will be provided and we will also be ... ! I will be helping teach people how to knit at this event!! So even if

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  Royal Internetness will help Kris and I make the blogs better than ever ... ). I have been and will be involved with many different nerdy events ... I was rewriting my profile this morning - the first substantive

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  to be the least glamorous and least enjoyable part of the overall ... somewhere new this summer. Besides, it's Boston. That being said, the actual ... 'll be leaving most of these boxes (old textbooks, the majority of my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  will be the greatest four years of my life. And, I guess if worse comes ... terrified - of the work, of leaving my family, of being so far from home - but ... entry. MIT is intimidating. This was the first thing that I saw from the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  . Even if you don't close up the cut, SnowDays will close it for you. If ... : See how the winding number can be greater than 1, if there's multiple ... regularize cuts, which means it will sometimes try to reverse the direction of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  new collaborations will lead to new technologies in the fields of the ... on the Ukraine-Russia conflict. The project will involve a lot of ... , my future looks like a dark void. Not in the usual “will I pass this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  . I now know that my experience wasn’t and shouldn’t be the norm, but a part of me still fears not being able to hold down a Real Job in the ... wrap around the both of us   being with you makes me see that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  consist of Doritos? Will the effects of eating so many Doritos have a long ... that gets posted onto the village, kids from Mexico will comment on ... recording a set of movements onto paper, the goal would be to "avoid words

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012