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  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  blogger applications; this week, I'm modifying the Maker Portfolio for ... at old requirements for admission.  Last year I posted our essay ... , not only through what they literally write (i.e. "For fun I like to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  turn it into a for-credit UROP as well. RATP has asked us to consider new uses and features for the Paris metro (subway) system -- ways to ... the operation of the trains -- and new space is opening up where those

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  .027, "City to City." This course includes departmental funding (!) for travel ... . While in Scandinavia last spring break, a few of us met up with the 11 ... above sorting out some payment for a meal we shared. Denmark doesn't use

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  friends for a little fun outside of the city. Step One: Acquire vehicle ... where I spent about 10 hours doing some manual labor for Habitat for Humanity. The two tasks for the day was to remove from siding from the

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  poultry, so I took the hamburger and my receipt back up and asked for a ... much for the rainbow smelt population in the river, but it did make for ... 't get the hamburger, because I didn't pay for it. B: I should get the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  , Tucson drives, and Boston, among other things, rides the metro. I grew up ... look for in future cities I live in. biking [caption id="attachment_77488 ... .[/caption] In Copenhagen, Denmark, everybody bikes. A guide for a MISTI walking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  I have been absent from the blogs for the better part of eight years ... worked for the last several years, I have a much better appreciation for ... be true for everyone, it certainly has defined my relationship with the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  ISEF, here is a description from the Society for Science and the Public ... program of Society for Science & the Public (SSP), is the world ... showcase their independent research as they compete for approximately $4

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  college. Not even for a bit! (I'm starting to think I'm always more homesick ... unresolved need. It's a class that ends up sprawling across multiple ... media studies students are thrown together for a semester to work in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  : To come up with Medieval puzzles and challenges for an upcoming ... adventures awaited them. For you see, engineers at 5 Wits got to bring people's dreams to life. They made it possible for people like you and me

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  months. Yay!!! Either that or you're gearing up and anxiously awaiting the ... summer leading up to MY freshman year I haunted these blogs and I expect ... build interactive exhibits for museums AND design/build interactive

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  for admissions officers and current students to share their stories. It's also a place for y'all to carry on a conversation with us and amongst ... . There's a big open box at the bottom of each entry, with fields for name

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor ... position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been ... transition. How could someone give up heading a top academic department

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  favorite, a wind-up boogie robot I just recently sorted, organized, and ... under the bed. I can see the floor of my room, for the first time in days ... conventional sense, my priorities were screwed up. However, to continue with the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  made any sense. But this is the "growing-up" we've been asking for. Well ... waking up at 10:30 AM everyday to nothing but enjoying sunshine, pointless ... beside the lonesome bus stops in the middle of nowhere, waiting for the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  to see how much I've grown In brainpower and stamina for sleepless ... shopping there And when I was about to buy soap, I Reached for the three ... Dial Gold soap It fully upheld my vitality As I hiked up the 'Tute

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  those are kind of cool, they end up not knowing anything about the fine arts or history or any of that lame-o stuff. Well, today I woke up at 8 AM to start sweating the onions for my award-winning apple cream of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  meet their interviewer face-to-face and to set up a time for their ... the Great Plains. Here's my entire meeting schedule for the fall ... you! And for the rest of you, say hello to my colleague who comes to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  held one question out for further inspection. Melissa had asked, "Do you ... up to near 50/50 like startup-school Olin College has, but I'm afraid that all my future female companions will end up in all the different

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  for a few days), since my fam is hopping on a plane to LA early tomorrow ... Parade on January 2. Watch for the Pickerington band! And maybe watch for ... somehow end up giving my hairdressers when I'm getting my hair cut. ("No, we

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005