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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  friends, new line of work. In the first few months of adjusting to fast ... distilling my thoughts over the last 4-5 years. That is, in addition to no ... school (the one I included in my MIT blogger application). The station

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  So here we are. I'm sitting in the AeroAstro Gelb Lab ... . In about a week, I'll be home in California again--in three, I'll be working an internship in Seattle. It hasn't exactly settled in yet that I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in ... forecasted heavy rain and a thunderstorm starting around noon, in which case ... ) for three laps around the course in as short a time as possible. We knew

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

    Christina T., Me, Erica D., and Jen L. representing MIT in Florence!   So I don't know if you could tell, but I was teaching in Italy over IAP. In October, I applied to MIT's Global Teaching Labs

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  specializes in projects that focus on interfaces, interactions, and ... with the Men In Black Headquarters, except without aliens (for now ... class (MAS.110) or for just getting "lost" in the many halls of the labs

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  This weekend marks the notable milestone where, for the first time in ... . I'm currently working in the Space Systems Laboratory helping to ... to develop and test these sorts of things in an environment where if

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  and international students.   It’s mid-October in Cambridge ... , and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The ... arriving in our inboxes recently. How should my teachers prepare and submit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  for the inevitable punch line. In which case I’d happily comply and say ... awkwardness, but still, to everyone’s chagrin, logically sound in a roundabout ... short) that was held Sunday night in Kresge auditorium was essentially one

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  There comes a time in everyone's MIT experience, from the application ... moment occurs as soon as you arrive on campus. Or in the middle of your ... once. I had this moment most recently while sitting in my 18

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  's my blog and I get to put words in your mouth if I want. That's a good ... advisor)'s office on Tuesday in search for the answers to life, the universe ... minutes or so, I was convinced that he not only is the Best Advisor In the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  comes to a close culminating in graduation and Tech Reunions on our campus ... their families in attendance and ended with the final celebration of MIT ... that I would see them in five years when they would all come back to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  feeling rising in my mind that I've forgotten how to put in words. Fu ... 'm in it. And as the Systems Integrator for my team section (Pink A) , more often than not I am in it deep. The class runs at a breakneck pace

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  put "vacation" in quotations not because it wasn't wonderful - it was ... certainly not forgotten. I've got a blog post in the works about how to write ... so this subject is both fresh in my mind and timely for yours as the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  sciences department in between. But course 17 (Political Science), though seemingly only a science in a purely semantical sense, is a hidden gem here at the Institute. More importantly, in ways, it's a bit of an art, too

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  reading if you will. Remember Tim's promise. Best of luck in the weeks ... kick in. Get off the blogs and let out a few tears. Then watch some ... chain that's pretty prevalent in the US - fun fact: it contains 14

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  parents' computer to mine-detonators in remote Third World countries. When I ... -secret military agent whose patriotic duty was to sit in front of a CRT monitor and play minesweeper to protect U.S. troops from setting off hidden mines in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  five weeks, we had been learning skills to help us in this exercise. From ... most often about AFROTC is "but what do you do every week?" Cadets in Det ... Force officer. As a freshman, I'm in AS.100, and right now we're learning

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  find their place at MIT so there were no women living in sorority houses although there were women living in one of several independent living groups. I lived in Baker House, often referred to in those days as the largest

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exhibitions@MIT [by Leah Brunetto '12] Something different amidst displays of scientific progress.

  

  involvement in the arts, MIT has a lot to offer. Aside from the numerous student ... am a freshman (soon to be sophomore!) very much engaged in both the internal and surrounding art worlds. I am interested in the fine arts

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  will influence and solve the problems that the world faces today. In fact ... families across the economic spectrum. If circumstances change in your family ... President Barack Obama in calling for increased funding for clean energy

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009