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• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  towels on fire (courtesy of Tetazoo) getting pelted by a spoonful of cake ... hit me that I’m now a college student. Not only do I have a bunch of ... drink water. (Speaking of which, here’s a friendly reminder to go get

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  of a particularly trenchant entry written by an MIT blogger, by all ... 'm really excited for CPW!! I really cant wait to come up and meet all of the ... in terms of balancing time b/w them and with my host at CPW? I know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  with my computer screen for 12 hours a day, now seemed as good of a time as any to save this post from the crowded purgatory of [annotation note ... blotted by some cruel impressionist painter, my days in quarantine seem to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

   (Chinese and Japanese food) over on Beacon Street, Trident (a smorgasbord of ... Mass Ave, and of course, nearly every Chipotle (burritos!) located a ... situated close to the Cambridge / Boston divide, there's also a number of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  On Friday afternoon, the students and staff of the senior capstone Mechanical Engineering course 2.009: Product Engineering Processes took to Killian Court (the big grassy quad by the Great Dome) to fire birds at pigs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  Nobel prize for his "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis." Courtesy of the MIT News Office: Schrock was cited by ... another name to it's list of professors, affiliates, and alumni who have won

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  Oh my god. I can't stop thinking about all of the people who have been affected by this - this tragedy has been on my mind every waking ... too). It's a feeling of helplessness - other than donating money I don

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  Marilee was quoted. Here are those paragraphs: The director of undergraduate writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has also raised ... writing director, Les Perelman, was troubled by the correlation between

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  the freshman application process. What is an LΔ? It is all of the ... learning process. One of my good friends is a professor and administrator at ... placement exam he only earned a grade of D+. By the end of the semester

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  :30 → In discussion section, we discuss an inflammatory article in defense of ... recall the article on the “The Coddling of the American Mind,” one of many ... . 12:00 → New observation: Harvard Yard reminds me of the East Campus

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  graffiti, and verdant stretches of trees and grass in the process. Evenings ... get a decent amount of legroom (and time to yourself) in the process ... This summer, I'm working part-time at the Division of Student Life

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  As Vincent mentioned, the MIT Class of 2019 freshmen are currently ... clubs and activities. They also learn about the resources available to ... through hard times. We even have a play put on by students to provide useful

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  far less to do in terms of taking care of myself when I'm at home! There ... 's bone chilling winds are replaced by clear skies and countless opportunities to hang out by the river and actually get to know the city. I spent

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  chances of success by adhering to a set of guidelines as a passionless means ... applications process, is just one red-hot pressure cooker made worse by one ... Chesapeake area, you were given a bit of a treat on Monday night. Several

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  it? It's asleep, what a waste of processing power. Cloud computing uses ... my 15.565 Digital Evolution: Managing Web 3.0 class, we learned of the philosophy behind cloud computing. Cloud computing is the means by which data

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  light! I didn't take picture of the whole process, but I can walk you ... training class that is. Never heard of the Edgerton Center Student Shop ... what kind of tools they have, they have mills, lathes, bandsaws, drill

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  since it was a thing of the then distant future. Now, here I am, smack dab in the middle of my time in the GEL program and contemplating my ... in their second year of the program. Instead of meeting expectations

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

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  again requested, this time by Rachel W. '16, founding President of MIT ... Red Bull staff, but aerobatics is evaluated by a panel of judges on the ... taken place in her life.     By the end of the event, Ian P

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  (ID) issues by way of completing an extensive study of the famine that ... solutions. The conference will feature lectures by some of the world’s ... of others who were in line, I anxiously awaited the chance to hear

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  : If I will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date ... option. There is no need to follow up by mailing a fee waiver to us. Q: I ... Match? A: If you have not completed all the testing requirements by the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017