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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  What's up? Yeah, it's the end of term, and we're all hosed. The week ... crystalline side-chain block copolymers for actuator applications". That's a bunch of big words for a simple idea. 1: Attach liquid crystals (the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  while I was hosed it really doesn't look like I'd put up my next entry to until about a few weeks after I graduate. Also, I made fun of Ben for not ... six chapters for my first exam on Tuesday. So, there'll be an entry

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  breakdown for five minutes when I realized I was going to college with a couple hundred geeks. Luckily, MIT wanted to pay for my trip to CPW, so I went there with this “what the heck, they’re paying for it so

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  an MIT professor, Rodney Brooks. To pay for research, the start-up ... the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, he played a key role in steering the Human Genome Project to completion. Heading up the Broad

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell and she is responsible for some of the biggest lessons that I ... a tough sell. I thought that all I had to do was to show up and tell ... ethnicity openly and honestly. Don't just play up the school's strengths, but

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  -credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time ... meets for 9 hours a day 4 days of the week. That sounds like a plan ... working on the same puzzle for the last 4 hours answers the phone. "Hello

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  college card, which, as you've been told many times before, is given FOR ... "Symphonie Fantastique"--the one that got him hooked up with actress Harriet ... at Harvard and only came to the BSO to get off campus for a few hours

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  , and as I enter, the all-wood space opens up to a giant staircase that I run up, two steps at a time. The colorful squares covering the walls on ... ="104830" /] As the school year progresses, I find myself leaving Simmons for class

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  .) In a weird convergence of universes, I ended up teaching a class that Ceri TA'd and Yuliya took, and we all ended up making episodes for season 3 ... . AWESOME. Let me back up a bit. See, back before dubsmash and the Doge meme

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  pay hundreds of dollars to pick up. So I went to the society fair, signed up for a dozen more mailing lists than I should have and tried my ... . Patiently waiting to be interrogated and yelled at for misplacing all my

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  means: Well, the week is up. I'll definitely start tomorrow. On Jan 31 ... notwithstanding. For the even slightly sentimental, there might be this feeling that 2014 should open up with some sort of bang—performers at Times

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  hours. Techfair isn't just any career fair -- you dress for the job you ... helps you learn to code interactively for free. We didn't get away with ... , 40% hand gestures), which Anji and I ended up enjoying thoroughly. Leng

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  ;t yet shown up on the tracking system. We're still processing lots ... email to inquire about missing documents. The MyMIT tracking is up ... do is tell you that MyMIT is up-to-date and to be patient as we process

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  I grew up in a house composed almost entirely of girls. Genetic odds ... past semester has been an incredible journey for me, academically and ... , actually, yes. At least for me, becoming a brother is not simply a change in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  should have been working…and catching up on sleep. Up until this morning ... Emmanuel College, Dave Kemp sets up his Rube Goldberg-like ‘Toy Land’ contraption for the MIT Museum sponsored Friday After Thanksgiving (F

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  woke up to watch Chicken Little and eat. Then came for the excitement ... to pick up a travel book. (Yes, I waited until the last minute to ... . Actually, a total of 18 of me and my friends ended up making the sojourn

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical ... Medical Engineering Society (BMES) I quickly signed up. Novartis is a world ... up in 2003 and is home to about 700 scientists. Ever seen those

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  enter the housing readjustment lottery, giving you the chance to pack up ... 2. Here are the posters we made to put up around the dorm... do they ... successful last year. Our floor is called English House, for reasons

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  in hopes of catching up to my current life. For example, I have a good ... for this summer being done, I haven't quite settled in yet. In fact, as I'm typing this now, I should be packing for my Chicago flight that

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  mixed up. I've been reflecting on the changes in bits 'n' pieces as the ... different. A lot of things are simpler: splitting up fridge space, figuring ... 's shifted how I approach leaving the house. I can't just go home for lunch

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022