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• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  weekends when I can. PA is colder than Boston, or it feels that way. In the winter the grass is covered in hoarfrost (иней in Russian, I learned) that ... for the past four months. Winter in PA is grey trees against a warm

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  thing to do at the time, in some sense it was the right thing to do at the ... was mostly luck. I was lucky that I got to take the classes that I did in the semesters that I did them. I was lucky to have gotten research

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  Dynamics in the Tiny Bacterial Cell, in the Fall. - we toured the Broad ... marathon including Gattaca and Aliens in 6-120 Orientation is by far one of the most exciting times of the year. There's just a lot of things

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  direct you here. Suffice it to say that Professor Dumbledore is the reason ... my name in the blanks. Instead, we met in person to discuss my ... our understanding of the universe.  One of those winners is an MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  else to do it. in esp we have a saying, which is "your job is not to do ... they want things to keep getting done, they need to know the people in ... the department in charge of student groups, sole, describes their

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  Engineering Tools." 2.670's job is to get students familiar with the tools and ... had the chance to work with the actual machinery involved in ... to. Keep in mind, there are about 50 people in my section of the class

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  laugh) My primary mission is to start working on my new project in lab ... "Too Much Clue" in some of the fun that weekend. If you're interested in ... hope you had an umbrella, Mollie. (Yes, I decided to watch in on TV

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  -Conner rooming committee, for doing a fantastic job with the in-house reassignment ... third choice for any student. 2. Megan '08 for introducing me to the song ... loved was born with roses in her eyes." 4. Joe '08, for inviting me to go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  I'm frequently asked about the students that are admitted to MIT. Who are they? What is their story? Beginning today, I'm going to be posting ... mostly come from local newspapers. The stories are pretty inspirational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  decorated like a homeless guy's scrapbook. In addition to the gems below ... It's a little-known fact that McCormick Hall is home to not only ... nature. I stashed the water in my assigned kitchen cabinet back at Random

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

   these the best noodles in the greater Boston area? This place is located in a ... is right in the middle of Chinatown, so I've walked by it countless ... "]Roxy's.[/annotation] Now, most of these places are closed, so if I'm too lazy to cook, I have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  , the steps involved in making a hand turkey are as follows: 1.) Stock up ... use to trace with) on construction paper. 4.) Cut along the lines. 5 ... operations in the kitchen all day. The preparations moved along like a well

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  is the same. With a sigh, I walk into 10-250 and try not to think about ... the way forward. In the afternoon we might open up to discussion, feel ... phases of reason and tolerance, and this is just a blip in the movement

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  ideas. In fact for Christmas, some of the faculty used their own money to ... high school system is there is absolutely nothing wrong with being in the ... the best they can. In the underfunded schools students seem to be

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train(wreck) of Thought

  

  intensive project hence (most of) my absence from the blagosphere. BUT I ... is a group that screens movies on campus) and one of the movies was ... effective nonetheless. I want to see this movie now. *Nombre is actually

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  year, the San Jose meeting is likely to be the second or third largest. At most of our meetings, we'll see somewhere in the 75-300 people range ... looking to hire MIT students. Getting stuck in traffic on the 101 Freeway

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  11 / senior spring almost there

  

  semester rainy, cold days made it more bearable to hole up in the library or in lab when it was sunny I got really excited to go ... to set the mood: episodes - mishegas here are some photos I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  , with me, the question of whether it is in principle possible to major in ... assigned, at least in the physics department. I had to send in a form and ... interest in astrophysics, which is probably a large part of the reason I was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  also were able to organize our regional in the spring just before the ... some way to recreate the joy of in-person science bowl in a pandemic ... competition where two teams try to answer science trivia before the other team

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend

  

  'll try to get back to you ASAP! In the meantime...get pumped. ... CPW IS ABOUT TO BEGIN and it's going to be AWESOME. It snowed today...but the snow is now safely out of the way and hopefully the MIT weather

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 6, 2006