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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  convenient excuse for not blogging since February - it’s not that I’ve been too busy, it’s that I haven’t been busy enough. Last Monday, in MAS.S66 ... PowerPoints or half-hearted reports, MAS.Magic’s midterm project was a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  their food that it’s become deeply engrained in who I am. The other side ... people’s opinions. In making this map of opinions I could pinpoint the ... saying it is bad to be influenced by those around you, in fact that’s how

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  real camera or know anything about photography. However, my roommate’s ... and quiet. That’s why I like snow so much--it makes everything quiet and ... AP’s coming up OMG) I’d encourage you to all press pause for a weekend

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  tournament! sMITe Spring 2013 My shin splints evolved into stress fractures ... that will help me in the long run even if there’s no immediate incentive. One of GEL’s capabilities of effective leadership is self-awareness and

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  us is: It’s better to make a bad decision now than a good one too late ... : As you can see, there’s no cascade of steps to follow. It’s a lot of ... solid piece of advice. Why? That’s exactly the question I should ask

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  students to help staff events and run registration—it’s only a couple of days ... Theater Arts Faculty. (If you’re curious about the plot, here’s a more ... -length musical in only two weeks. It’s definitely the closest I’ve ever come to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  the tiny scented candles at Shaw’s. The big one behind it was a present ... looking out over Brigg’s Field and Simmons, in the same entry as Ceri R. ‘16 ... almost all my legos, which are still chilling with Cory’s legos in his room

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  it’s just a lot of exciting things going on!!! First up, my work this ... been working tirelessly on the system’s designs. Nathan Kipniss ’14, also ... up with the team’s progress (since I came back from England after the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  Foundation’s book on legacy admissions. That chapter doesn’t actually contain ... demonstrate MIT’s alumni donated $77 million in 2006, it says nothing about ... at least the 1960s – gives me confidence that we have not offered a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  ; Urgency to Deliver, Initiative, and Decision Making   It’s safe to say that the GEL 2s devote at least ten hours a week to help plan each ... calls upon the GEL 2s to conceive and operate a unique ELL. We started

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  career in research, I needed a very specific plan. I had no plan, but that’s what summer internships are for, or at least that’s what I told myself ... enjoyed the experiences I’ve had in labs, but I started to realize that it’s

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  reviews, but it’s Spring Break now and time for all of us to take a ... and Anna have said, undergrad admissions is but a phase and it’s so important to hold on to your dreams. Here’s my anectodal addendum: It was

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  Last week, six of MIT’s most illustrious professors gathered in 26 ... which three sides... This year’s debate was moderated by Hillel Executive ... ’m trying my best to explain this, but it’s quite clear there was some fuzzy

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  ’ve been here with my mom and grandma; it’s absolutely gorgeous: The ... help. It’s been an amazing experience so far. The doctors at the ... , full-day endeavor – but it’s truly meaningful work. Without this medical

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  – but I suppose it’s passable for a just a few days. Thank God there was ... relied on Ethan’s (’12) phone GPS to get back to the house, but it didn’t help that Google’s location of the house is farther down the road than it’s

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  this past week’s MIT Career Fair, I set out to discover what industry ... following summer, and some, let’s be honest, just snag free stuff (shirts ... what I could understand, it’s up to members of these companies to commit

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  the Boston skyline as a backdrop. Somewhere, there”s a calendar with ... take the rest of the day off, even though it”s not particularly necessary ... .614: Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures (12 credits) 4S.10: Delhi and

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  , Shakespeare’s Pizza, and the Kewpies (naked baby dolls that were my high school’s mascot. Seriously.) – located smack-dab in the middle of the U.S. While it ... Society, UROPing in Professor Bhatia’s bioengineering lab, chilling with my

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  1800s, it was founded as a resupply shop on a major railroad line through ... , the town slowly began to shrivel and die. From the 1920s to the 1960s, Leavenworth was in the throes of a deep depression, and in the early 1960s the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  '14s, and to hear about prospective '15s, not to mention a few ambitious '18s =P I could describe this past year simply as a learning experience ... -Orientation Several of you '14s are looking into FPOPs (Freshman Pre

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010