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• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  January is “supposed” to be an off-month for MIT students - a break ... personal health, just in time for me to start the spring semester at the tail ... undergraduates and alumni for miniature, month-long internships. Externships are

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Pluto for 35 years and helped design the New Horizon's spacecraft. “Just ... invented the Torino Scale, a method for categorizing the danger levels of ... (Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy), a high-altitude NASA plane that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  , my friend and I crossed the Harvard Bridge for the first time. We had ... river accompanied our walk. For an hour, time slowed, and we were rulers ... to bed for hours, and left me insatiable for sleep. Sometime during the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  For the past almost four and a half years, which is just under a ... nerdiest dorm. Right now I am in Florida for winter break, and as often ... (a giant meringue) for Loop’s floor dinner the next day. Bianca was

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  It is difficult for me to accept that the MIT Blogs are turning 10 ... for high school students to join -- we had to wait until May to get our ... inviting everyone to join an AIM chat room called "MIT09." For many of us, it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  To give you a flavor (well, many flavors) for what MIT students do ... bridges' structural integrity, what are your goals for the summer? I had ... environmentally friendly materials for ITO replacement in touch screens

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  the weekend drawing, cutting, and gluing together my first project for a ... had a giant crush on MIT. I signed up for a million classes (five and a ... -based storytelling. That ended, and the psets kept coming, and I waxed nostalgic for

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  California for ten years now, but unlike other sun-loving transplants, I ... , crispy leaves ripe for the leaping, apple picking, cinnamon and nutmeg ... pie I found on the internet for all you visual learners out there. Two

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  imagine that they must have had my info from when I was a finalist for the ... food restrictions that people had (for instance, Hendrik was a vegetarian ... be up and ready for the morning's activities. When did the morning

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  Hi Everyone, The Office of Admissions is closing for the holidays ... probably important to get some information out there for people regarding the ... things you can find just by looking around on the site -- for example

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  action. The ELLs we’ve done for the past couple of weeks in GEL have ... drop Wednesday: Same as Monday, substitute psetting for issue night and ... : Find a way that optimizes this situation for amount of time available

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  out my blogs apologizing for my lack of blogging, but I think I've said ... realized I couldn't stand the thought of being away from MIT for summer (2016 ... from MIT. But don't just take my word for it, check him out on MIT OCW

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  to MIT and that has been doing this bloggin' business for a while. I ... more productive. For those of you who can't conceive of inventing time ... your commitments. It seems weird to think that, for some students here

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  this post will be helpful. How does the waitlist work? We are aiming for ... %. What are the realities here? I know that while we plan for the worst ... MIT waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  going here. Your biggest concern is that MIT, which doesn't stand for ... testimonies. What's worse, maybe the facilities provided for the arts are in ... you about, only to find it's actually an electric drum set for which

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  me a curveball: what do I do for fun. MIT may be known for its academic ... definitely saved time for fun. Case in point: daycations. I consider myself an ... grocery store, in July. As for running, I don’t have many pictures of that

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  piece for y'all about his journey here at MIT. Enjoy! When I applied to ... interesting project - to build a sound localization device (ears) for her robot ... this so much that I nearly dropped Course 6 for 17, before my adviser

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  to take a few classes, write a million blog entries for you guys about ... write a paper. Details to come, so stay tuned. 21M.733: Design for the ... .851: Water and Sanitation Infrastructure for Developing Countries Lots of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  for your delayed connection." "Though you sprinted through the airport ... spoke with the last agent. There is no hope for you." "Oh, you can standby ... constructively. Ideas For Improved Holiday Travel On Airlines I was delayed for

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  Allen, eating some great food and hanging out in the Valley. I had cabrito for the ... friends from Michigan, who is down there doing a Teach for America placement ... -course dinner - appetizer, ribs entree, and dessert - for like $15. Mmmmm

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008