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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  for the weekend. That was yesterday. Today, we woke up late, spent a ... : "hey all, i'm sorry for the noise coming from the kitchen bathroom - i ... rate i will be done in the next 15 minutes. again, thank you so much for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  (Looking for a CPW Post? Read Rachel's! Looking for retreat ... substitution, or u-substitution, in that monthly amounts are probably good for ... up to offer an overnight retreat involving students, staff and faculty

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  " for the rest of his life), Middle English and the Canterbury Tales (they ... a science essay, and impact crater formation. Lisa is here early for ... going to be here for CPW itself - ESP is flying me to California, to teach

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  Jellyfishing...GEL-ly fishing? Get it? Fishing for new GELs? Maybe it's too late for clever puns, but I'm posting anyway ... Stata Center attempting to do my homework for EID (ESD.051, Engineering

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  wanted for myself. I think one thing that gets underestimated here is the pressures that we put on ourselves. Each of us here has high expectations for ... for the tests was honestly the worst experience for me. I stressed so

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  one of these beauties: Usually when I don't blog for more than a ... lack of blogging.) This blog was not initiated for such reasons. The ... noon, he'd give the posters flaky biscuits. Now, the reason it's hard for

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  What up, y'all? I don't go to MIT anymore! ...okay, so I work here ... . Whatever. It ain't the same. For those of you who don't remember me: hi ... imagined that that it would be the place for me. If you're a prefrosh and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  students struggling to graduate on time for the dumbest possible reasons ... 't count toward the requirement they thought it did. One alum I worked for ... , or get nonexistent triple majors, or...for fun. (There's no credit

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  space for someone. That's how I got my first UROP!) The experience is ... , for all you haven't-learned-MITese folks), I UROP'd in a really amazing and informative lab working on the genetics of regeneration. Slicing up

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  to pop culture references, pop music and the like. If it wasn’t for ... middle school-aged son thought it was mean for someone at the Oscars to be ... been married to for 9 years, the father of my kids, and I was cleaning

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  Gregor, one of the two MIT undergraduate dorms open for those of us living on campus for the summer. In August, I'll move back to French House, but this is where I'll come home to for the next couple of months. MIT during

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  chosen to be the founders of W1. For the next few months, we worked with the architects and MIT administration to finalize the blueprints for our ... included making decisions for how the proposed dining hall for W1 would

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  is an amazing, world-changing place. But it's not for everyone ... quite successful, and I applaud them for it! Let me tell you a bit about ... engineer. Gillespie eventually 'fessed up and told his parents he didn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to one hell of a lightning storm in Fort Lauderdale, closing the runway for an ... alone soon, I promise - I've had nothing to do for the last two weeks, but

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  although three of my five classes this term are recommended and required for ... Course 20. So for a while I contemplated declaring Course 2 or Course 2A ... , which is just straight up pure biological engineering, was the right

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 blogging scholarship competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a ... ". . . free for the night, what do you want . . . " Things are a little

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  help make up for this. MIT TRANSPORTATION The MIT Department of ... New York City, is walking. I daresay most people walk. For example ... subway system, which for some reason is called the T. MIT has its own

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  du Conseil - Room for the Observatory's Directing Council, featuring ... matter is what is thought to account for approximately 22% of all matter in ... we use it to account for the speeds of gas and stars in spiral galaxies

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  've known you for like a year and we've never actually met." "I know, you ... ) headquarters for awhile, duffel bag in hand. Seven hours of puzzling later, I ... Hunt is over. This year, the Hunt organizers kept their HQ open for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  Monday and Neuroscience today, and my last exam is for Thermodynamics of ... women. Half of the nation’s medical students are women, and for decades ... mathematics.” It seems that MIT is increasingly cited as a paragon for the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006