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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  . But the ensuing string of comments didn’t agree with me at all. Her own ... facebook and my two teenagers, I’d be hopelessly inept at water cooler conversation. Around the time of the Oscars a few months back, I was prowling

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  Staying up all night while staring up at the stars, eating loads of ... summer camp, right? Not quite, it was part of sophomore Shaye Storm's summer UROP at Jim Elliott's MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory. As most

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  classes at the start of the semester (a total of 72 units) and ended up with ... ; That’s basically a whole February. I spent an entire February of this ... of the semester all the way until the end, recording the exact time

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the 149th commencement ceremony in the Institute's history. At and by way of the ceremony, 1,054 undergraduates and 1 ... , when i was at my lowest, i sat down with one of my former advisees and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  of the best things that's happened to me at MIT. “These are all ... It's easy to get overwhelmed at MIT.  From the pressure cooker of ... serious disease: Signs of Winter School addiction: (1) on Wednesdays at 11

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two cakes and six cupcakes ...they may or may not resemble astronomical objects.

  

  I mentioned that I'm in the midst of a summer research program at the ... here with me, and one of them turned 21 three weeks ago. I mentioned that ... Array (of radio telescopes) in New Mexico. This is what the Whirlpool

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Party in the MIT This is some scary stuff.

  

  Tell the truth, how many current MIT students read the title of this entry and knew exactly what to expect when they clicked it? I know that at least Chris M did. Yesterday a video, made by a bunch of people from

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Travels Winter break is here!

  

  Believe it or not our term at Cambridge just ended. The terms are ... of the CME students are taking advantage of our 6 week winter break to do some heavy duty traveling. Some of the places include: Russia

  • by Cambridge
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  I've never thought of myself as a sorority girl. In fact, I've always been the first person to make fun of them. Between the claims of ... life was already full of far more interesting things, like watching paint

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading Some final notes before decisions are posted.

  

  Imagination, Laura The Moment of Truth And a few numbers: we received a record number of applications this year, up 9% from last year. At the same time, due to an increased yield (the percentage of admitted students who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a driver, I’m a winner Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

  

  those of you who know me can guess, the other six entrants were really no competition for me in the field of SPAM. Here's my award-winning speech. "My ... whole brevity thing." This is sure to be one of the prouder moments of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will you send me materials/prospectus/t-shirt/pennant?

  We appreciate your interest in MIT! We don't send a lot of mail (and ... description of all of the Institute's academic programs. We receive a lot of ... nonprofit organization we don't have funding to supply these types of items
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  year. I'm not making any of this up. It probably stems from a talk I had ... Freudian terror. Flash back to the real world, where school is still kind of hard despite having little in the way of required classes. A classmate

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  having something to come home to at the end of the day and someone to ... , but a lot of people would probably laugh at me for being so weaksauce ... ’ll remember Steven, who is terrible at drawing but still leaves notes of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  at Kingston-Ulster Airport, we could see patches of blue sky through ... Channel. (After a bit of Googling, I learned that he made the trip at an ... . Look at it…go? After the display of Pioneer-era aircraft, they brought

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  physics." Most of the others have paragraphs, or at least a few sentences. I ... A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... of portraits of the 67 individual resident physicists. Each poses in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  spectacular at any time of day. Even though I’ve crossed and re-crossed the same ... creatively titled School Year Edition of this guide that shall be written at a ... end of the world and back, as long as your world ends at Alewife Station

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  at the College of William and Mary before swiftly transferring) so when ... Though born in Massachusetts, I grew up in the wintry hinterlands of ... Burlington area, which averages a bit over five feet of snow every year. While

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  classes a graduation requirement; that way, instead of just being good at ... different way to look at it. One of my friends in Denmark and I had a chat ... are at the top; bands marking the ends of DNA fragments of decreasing

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  internship at the BNSF Railway in Texas, I'll also be missing some of the great ... for a few hours and reconvened at 6pm for a tour of Chatelet-Les Halles ... Confusing screens at Chatelet station, Paris The term's almost over

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007