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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  ! June Bags all packed for travel--and good thing, too, because I end up ... Story About Muti") in January, I stopped for lunch at a Chinese hot pot ... , MEng '17, for a picnic. April Researching at the Media Lab is honestly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  problem for me. I Iive in a triple. One of my roommates, Claire, is from ... wearing scarves for something other than fashion. It means layers and boots ... spelled “nightmere”). Luckily, I have a bike (thrifty me bought it for $45

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  It's 3am and I should probably be studying for my first 8.01 exam ... of time management. For me to put in the maximum amount of work into ... textbooks, taking notes, etc...) and have time for anything else seems near

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  students pre-registered for the course, representing 9 different majors and ... with Ethan Zuckerman, the Director of the Center for Civic Media, cofounder of Global Voices and MediaCloud, and board member for Ushahidi and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  sometimes say that I judge people for a living. While I had no formal background or training in judging people, I have been judging people for some time now, and it is the task for which I am paid; I am basically a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  for CityLab. Yet it feels as though I’ve lost (at least part of) my ... ’ve forgotten how to share thoughts and information...without latent concerns for how the content will perform, how it stacks up to other people writing

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  browser of choice >:] CPW just happened at MIT, which for all involved ... [email protected] if you would like more As for more Qs. How will ... requirement for this program, and I landed in Milan’s Linate airport on January

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  after grades are available for the fall semester or second quarter. (If ... available for classes you’ve taken in your current academic year. I am ... fill this form out? The form has fields for you to report your

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  Season 1 of Breaking Bad and napped for a couple of hours. Anyway, we all made it in one piece. This afternoon, I arrived at my hotel and for a few ... interrogated him. Turns out that this convention center is being used for a Music

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  for me, seeing all you guys excited to be here and the prospect of ... number of particularly impressive hacks throughout the weekend. For ... , an excellent fit for MIT. There was also a hoop artist And a silk

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  affluent or grown-ups working in the real world, but for a student like me ... while on the toilet. Blame it on all those apps for everything you can ... summer on jimjilbangs, and for visual reference, here's a photo from that

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  up for ELL. I had visited two sessions last spring when I was ... ’s schedule. Luckily for me, my classes are unique enough that I don’t spend ... , and two classes for the GEL Program. Mine just might be the most random

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  Factoid of the Day: I've never paid for food from the MIT Student ... consists of at least 40% actual humans, leaving an estimated 58% for spambots and 2% for MIT faculty members*. *Disclaimer: this statistical

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  JT would get back to them with the changes to the schedule for that ... . And then occasionally, for a real thrill, we'd go watch the B ... watch, but I decided playing wasn't for me since I seemed to have two left

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  likely to be, or perhaps a sense that maybe it's best not to know. As for ... robots to explore other planets. The high point for me was when I was on the flight team for the Magellan spacecraft, which orbited Venus and

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  started blogging for Admissions, I wrote a number of what were basically essays on subjects that I had been thinking about for a long time, and had ... . So I started floundering when looking for inspiration. Or at least, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  -explanatory. And then, there's the others (up through the current term), by subfield ... speech and writing related. Context for these and similar questions ... and do techniques for experimental neuroanatomy and electrophysiology

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  underpowered for doing the shopping. We have no entourage of support vehicles ... Mongol rally is a charity event raising money for some fantastic ... drinks at the launch party, leap into the cars and head for Dover. Once we

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  was for female students, and whether I had experienced discrimination as an MIT woman. I'll say right up front -- although I do understand why ... there enough air for everybody to breathe?" Just as I've never noticed a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  asked to design a prototype car for the nonprofessional weekend autocross ... has been on campus for five years. Schools that have been in the competition for many years generally only make minor adjustments to the original

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006