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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  may have casually come up in the times that I’ve written here that I am ... you can be the best you can be during your time here. In the end, it ... mistakes and everything was easy, how would we learn? Anyway, I spent A LOT

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  offered during overlapping time slots -- which one should I take? Don ... Department in fall, 2006: The Challenge of World Poverty. The class is intended for students interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lip Sync & Toons Real singers and fake singers ...sort of like Jessica and Ashleey Simpson. (~17 pictures)

  

  Last night, I attended a concert by the MIT/Wellesley Toons, one of ... divided the lecture hall in half and told us it was time for audience ... great trumpet noises. Can anyone guess what song we were accompanying

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  Devices and I worked in the Manufacturing Engineering Lab. So, see that ... Yesterday, I officially completed the 12-week Summer Undergraduate ... Technology (NIST). I never thought that I would find a place that loves

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  that recruiting season is so early in the semester, but at this point I ... I was interested in. I did some background research, prepared ... career fair? How on earth did I manage to find something to do last summer

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  In case you haven't noticed, I'm blogging less frequently now. There ... kitchen. In turn, freshmen bloggers, I need your help. Please blog uberloads so that I can take time doing the second reason I don't blog as much

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  1 of the 101 Quincy Market, Mike's Pastries, Giacomo's, yummm

  

  In my last entry, I mentioned that I had a bunch of things I wanted ... significance to me, because that's actually where I became a U.S. citizen :) In other news: (1) I had my first test of the semester this morning in 7

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  , picking up long-dormant projects, and starting new initiatives. I'm currently at nerd camp, but anytime the blogs go unblogged for too long, I get antsy, so I wanted to make a quick post and point your attention at two

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  occasion of their graduation. I told how ambivalent I felt (about myself; about MIT) on my own graduation day in 2013, but how much, in hindsight, I ... less when you're out there in it. because that's really all any of us can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  and I’m a senior in course 12 with a minor in biology. Within EAPS, I ... lot of words, but more generally I’m interested in the chemical traces ... how we can use those traces to understand the history of life on Earth

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  than you can count, I stumbled my way into regularly paying my bills ... that girl who sits in front of me in class. I also took out the trash and ... : Walking to work. I walked a lot this summer. Living in a place where public

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  , I was comfortable with all of these tools, thanks in large part to the ... and learned how to use fast fabrication methods.  And I built a pair of ... top hill (in hindsight, I wish they had made flag pulling worth more

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  share with you one interesting fact about the evening. I managed to, in ... , I figured I'd stop in at the Urgent Care clinic to see what they thought. When a nurse came in to see me and asked what I was in for, I

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

  I Wish I Was an Astronaut I was a nerd even back in 3rd grade.

  

  Not really...but I used to. I wrote this little diddy back in 3rd grade, just thought I'd share. Mollie, maybe Adam wants to make this the ... chose to do a rap about him. This only demonstrates how nerdy I was even

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  it really is beginning and so it begins

  

  That kind of means summer is ending. Jessie wrote in her blog how ... the year, Orientation. In about 10 minutes, we start our pre-orientation program (FPOP) Discover Biology. We'll be out until midnight, but i'm really

  • by Bryan
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  Waverly, just in time to check out the course before the sun set. (I'm going ... of our nation, inescapable no matter where we travel to. In any case, I ... : The ladies at the course on Friday. In case you can't tell, it was

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  mountain hiking in a blank? how can you capture the brilliance of a sunrise ... , My interview is within 3 weeks, so I want to know how you prepared for ... season, I (mistakenly, in hindsight) applied to 15 colleges. Out of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  I. Emergency Dinner Sunday afternoon catches me cooking for 30+ in a ... seven bowls of cereal in one day. I've also eaten cereal that my roommate ... average stuck-in-grad-school grad student, as it so happens. I've come to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP 2006

  

  living. Mmm, I can go running in the park if it's not too snowy. Someone in ... can apply to up to 3 positions in the San Francisco, New York, Los ... advice you can get from alums in your major who have gone into different

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  "You're good to submit!". I was kind of doubtful seeing as how quickly I ... edits in October, the moment had finally come. I was done. But now was a ... colleges. You are not losing yourself in these applications. I'll conclude

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019