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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder. He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn ... place. I freaked out, and grabbed the girl next to me; a shout-out to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  developments in biotechnology and chemistry and will be analyzing that data to ... talked about what specific information I needed to start making links and ... challenge me to take a step back and take a look at the whole summer and apply

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  for other people to cook better food and deliver it to them). Much of ... Entry: A Night in the Lounge The first opportunity to chill and eat with ... sources tell me that D residents have a similar vibe to B and F, but that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of ... season with Alex S. '13, who was here to represent Boeing, Irina O. '15 and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to ... will reveal themselves once more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and ... 'll teach it!" So, I found 5+ people who were willing to quasi-commit, and now

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  facilities are open to anybody, and some only open to certain communities ... example, and a zillion astronomers who want to collect data with it; during ... , and why all of this means that you will be able to get the scientific

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  I've been blogblocked a lot and I've been really trying to find ... to go to semesterly lotteries and enter your name in and only about 10 ... bit. I'm hoping luck will be on my side and I'll be able to pursue the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  altogether. Recently I purchased a bicycle, to help me commute to and from ... (?) inch telescope and set it up on Glacier Point to observe for two nights ... I was born in the province of Sichuan and speak the Sichuan dialect

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  it rains and I get to wear my rain boots When it rains and I get to ... Getting a bad grade, but still realizing how much I’ve learned to get to ... layers on back to back to back to back and my life seems to go from pset to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  upperclassmen, I said screw it and turned all my attention to getting as much free ... super fun and hilarious -- and at the very least, you have to admit that ... the morning my freshman fall and would often stop at verdes to shop in a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  great time. As interns, Ian (the kid who works next to me) and I were ... striping and everything, no stencils at all! We also armed ourselves to ... Wheels and pretty much made all of the rest of us feel insignificant. Those

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  effort you have put in to letting us know how much you love MIT. As someone ... It's been over a week since the May 2 reply deadline, and we know ... , we've been waiting for all our admitted students to submit their

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  a flight to the U.K and embark on the second half of my college ... long time. What are you going to do? Me: Hmm, I don't know, chill and ... music I listened to was painfully narrow and my goal in these four weeks

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  -blocking girth and...er, sleeping habits, I suppose. (Yes, I happen to be a less ... its way like sweet nostalgia to my ears, I’m in good and plentiful ... lecture, and with my exceptional ability to get lost in any and all

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  saved the day yet again and told my classes to push back a few project ... over after a few days. 2. I am old and need to get a real person job. I'm getting flown out to NYC soon for a full day of being wined, dined, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  like to tell my friends and relatives is that “IAP, which stands for ... answer is that IAP is truly what you want it to be. MIT students and ... and community members four almost-completely-free weeks to participate

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Public Art Projects ...for your amusement.

  

  to view a closeup, and for the uninitiated, here's some history on ... am very grateful for these tunnels as I travel from the T to my office. It took me 6 months to really get my bearings down there. Prior to that

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  . People are lining up in Lobby 10 to collect their booklets and nametags ... campus to dispense food and swag to interested students. We even have a ... you don’t know what business casual means, much less how to find a job

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  * For me, it was really awesome getting the chance to work in a lab and to ... excited and who cared just as much about their projects. Of course, I learned how to communicate scientific results and how to develop experiments

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  than standing for Standard Temperature and Pressure, S refers to transfer ... and teaching lessons to our local classroom. I was visiting the Advent classroom every Tuesday and becoming really close to the students

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013