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• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  anything particularly related to my major--in fact, my proposal for a mini ... for four years in high school (plus speaking at home with my mom ... travel for work, who went to international schools in whatever countries

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  to MIT in two years, I wish you all the best for the future ... winner receives $100,000 and two years of support from Thiel's network in ... Foundation: Laura Deming wants to extend the human lifespan for a few more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  . Along with my major in Chemical-Biological Engineering (Course XB, for ... selected for GEL learn how to best tackle working in a group and take ... I am not your typical MIT student. In high school, I never built a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  double majoring in Nuclear Engineering (Course 22) and Biology (Course 7) along with a minor in music (Course 21M). As a testament to the diversity ... Engineering. He then sent out emails and began his work at the BNCT in mid

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  . However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled ... in the picture, for a variety of reasons. First, the building in the ... Back in November, after our adventure visiting every stop on the MBTA

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for ... Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in life. Last semester's demos in 8.022 (Electricity and Magnetism, with

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  televisions and digital cameras, all for the sake of saving $25 in tax. I love ... least. (And, to put in a plug for Melis -- you can publish in MURJ!) ... This is entry #2 in my series "entries that need to be written

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  , the biggest music festival in Denmark dedicated to metal. Tickets have been sold out since before the pandemic, but volunteers could get in free. I signed up for two twelve-hour shifts deconstructing the stages, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  girlfriend in Washington D.C. It wasn't until a couple days before leaving that I noticed that I would be in town for [annotation note ... , accelerated classes, just do research, or participate in a MISTI program, among

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the first time! While most of my friends have been back in Boston for at least ... the comforts of home in Seattle, more than three thousand miles away

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  Hey all! I haven't been around this site in months, and rather than ... , I'm going to go right in and cover everything interesting I've seen ... Death Valley and Southern California for eight days for CREDIT, took a

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  for different MIT students. Since every third store in Germany is, by ... once in a while. I've been feeling kind of floaty these past few weeks ... . But seriously, guys, everything's really up in the air right now. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  funds for it. It was also super refreshing to be in these games classes ... outlets for fulfillment in my life, I'm okay with that. Realizing this ... of the day, I would just be clocking in my 8 hours for money and that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  invests money from the venture capital firm they work for into those startups to make returns. As an entrepreneur, being in their good graces and ... for one's company. I wanted to meet as many as I could and learn as much

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  doors. MIT CENTER FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS is printed on each in small ... won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2004. Outside his door hangs a red ... Looking For A Good Fantasy." I stood in that entrance hall for a solid

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  incredibly well. The process for each climb was simple: start in the basement ... histogram, shown below.In the end, teams Beast and Slugfest battled for first ... , especially in comparison to Hex, to strategize for next year's challenge. Both

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIA No More Why I haven't blogged in 23 days.

  

  November Service Project for Student Leaders in Service (SLiS) - Doing ... , but I have two legitimate reasons for why this is so: (1) The freshman ... it too. Here's mine for the week: Andd a second shot, with stuff you

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  for many different reasons, but he has all the money in the world to ... tanked my mood for the day. These classes were exactly aligned with my ... wanted nothing more than to go back in time and take those classes. I spent

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  Conference for College Women Student Leaders in College Park, Maryland, and met ... the reasons I have an interest in journalism today. What’s incredible to ... seats in Congress, lead only 15 Fortune 500 companies, and hold a mere 3

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  ceremony was extremely entertaining for the officers in the room were ... in the Air Force." Both men instantly had my respect. One of the many ... has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007