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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  looks like I’ll be sticking around the lab for an extra week), presenting ... Bon Pain in the NIH Clinical Center (which I justify by the total ... mug), hanging out in New York City, and more. I’m really only getting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  ways in my life that I've used task management, especially for goal ... other things that make it in there as well. This summer, for example, I ... 100 list' did a lot more for my motivation to read. In the end, though

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  -day weekend! Wooohooo!!! Yesterday, I decided that today would be perfect for a ... any plans for tomorrow?" Their responses were like this: "Tomorrow ... evil physics test on Thursday!" "I am locking myself in my room and never

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  MIT students have to live in a dorm for all four years (they don't), or ... , your career path, or, in this blog post, your home for the next four ... choose it for yourself and that you choose it for reasons you believe in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  've been waiting for all our admitted students to submit their final ... from our wait list this year, and, if so, room for how many. Each year ... at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the "yield") of greater

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  2.671 is an AMAZING class (that many people dislike, for reasons that are totally beyond me) and I've been having a great time in it. I ... much just going nuts. For our final (9th) lab of the semester, we were

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  That's it ladies and gents, sophomore year is over for yours truly. I ... are for. I have to say, it's going fast. When I applied to MIT and got in, I always thought of MIT graduates as geniuses. These people went to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  ginger as you feel you can handle! Mix in a little cayenne pepper for an ... and shirts and ties! What am I not prepared for? Nowadays, most high ... totally new experience for college freshmen. One of the most important

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  the freshmen in my fraternity the Class of 2012 in general Independent Activities Period! Only two months away! picking my classes for ... Brass Rat in the spring this upcoming summer :) this weekend! Plans

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  of course, everything in science is easier said than done. Now for my ... skills would come in handy until about a week ago when I scrambled to get a project done for one of my classes, 2.671, Measurement and Instrumentation

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  , basking blondes are no match for pillows in flight. Back on Tetazoo, I ... ventured out onto Killian Court (in front of Building 10) for some outdoor ... your messages! I will reply in detail soon. Thanks!) This has been a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  the puzzles and figure out what we'll need to give them in exchange for ... 're there, call in aardvark for our puzzle!" Me and James: "It's NOT aardvark ... put it all in a safe place with the operator. I took a picture for your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  for interpretation--my classmates set Anna in the 20s, 60s, 2100s ... scouring the web for pictures of poor white tenant farmers in Louisiana ca ... complete sketches for the rest of the costumes in our production. I made

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  me for spending all day sitting down in front of my laptop, saying it ... /ApplyingToCollege. I'm flattered for something I've written to get 211 upvotes, and I'm sad that I can't keep the karma for my main. I'd have loved to comment

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  stumbled into this opportunity by accident when scrambling for a summer UROP ... Patterns is the name of the curriculum that is being taught in all of these ... -Shapley   The rest of the week was dedicated to more offline exercises in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  departments, from the terrascope program, from mit libraries, students in engineering and in sloan business school, and a visiting student from germany who is only here for the summer, who talked about how shocked he was at

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Events

  298 Tickets. All for us

  

  A lot of 'lasts' happened this past week: - I turned in my last 5 ... recitation for the semester - since we don't have class next Friday, and the ... doctor's office in Somerville and decided that it was the last time I was

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  Professor Angelika Amon of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. Today was my first day and I decided to come in at 8:00 - which, in turn, meant waking up at 6:30 in the morning. Let me repeat that. Six-thirty in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  with my biology advisor, since I worked in his lab for three years and ... for health reasons -- Adam's going down to Georgia in a few weeks to ... year; you'd take 5.12 (organic chemistry) in the spring to prepare for 5

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  been piling up in my inbox... Where the heck have you been?!? April 6-9 was CPW, followed by my first real vacation in over a year. A whole week off! Just got back today - 1000+ emails in my inbox - good times

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006