Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  're an MIT student! How was the conference? It was AWESOME! Snively and I ... I can talk about my job at Los Alamos, which segued into what my plans ... , don't discuss odds with MIT kids. I estimated them to be about 1 in 10

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  sprinkle the remaining photos in somehow.) ;-) I was dining in Providence ... everything, 'Sweetheart'?" in the manner of an elderly grandmother. I started ... terribly interested in the core freshman classes -- I mean, really... my life

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  that I'm conspicuously irregular in my sleep schedule, and I say this ... Avenue, half-groggy and half juiced with adrenaline. Within 20, I'm in ... spots. Now, take the sum of everything that I've just written, factor in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  puzzle in private dining. In all of the reviews that I saw while doing ... progress. After a while, I couldn’t have a conversation with anyone in the ... sections. Yet, it never got old, because I was amazed at how many people were

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  something this summer (since I have an internship with Bayer in Germany ... Marathon or checking out the MFA. In fact, the only reason I even planned ... event planner in the world, or even in the suite in which I live, but we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doonesbury and MIT Meet Alex Doonesbury, MIT '10.

  

  people ever tell you how pretty your cities are?!?!) I have about 200 pages of reading to catch up on. The last thing I should be doing is blogging ... I skipped 4 days of school to go to Seattle and Vancouver to learn

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  unheard of here. I can think of several people I know who are currently ... (but I'm sure there are people who'd argue..). You can stay undecided for ... to feel like some "other" major (I'm in such a major!). That said, the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  been sitting in my drafts box since. However, I still believe, fervently ... maybe we can benefit from focusing on that instead. 03/14/2015 So I ... us a happy pi day, and I realized that today was the day, and in t

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  regulations from going into effect; you can read the complaint here. In the ... where they come from. I know firsthand the anxiety of arriving in this ... living in the United States. Since last March, MIT has offered housing to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  't embarrass him by telling you all how old he is =), but I will tell you the story of how my friends and I unleashed a birthday explosion in his office. So in case you didn't know, I should probably tell you that Ben is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  On a weekday, I meet my friend Alberto H. ‘17, who I haven’t seen in ... . I ask him how his life’s been lately. He pulls out his cellphone, and ... who are all staying in the Hyatt. “Yeah,” he says, “and I might go to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  exciting time in the world of particle physics. A week or so before, I had ... in a while, you can pull out something (an "event") which could have ... ." I hope that this gives some sense of how much was riding on the LHC

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  I discuss how to get scientists more involved in advocacy, and what a ... him by name when I passed by in the hallway. Now, I’m in a big room ... one of his constituents, and the last time I was in New Jersey I was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  : "..." Friend: "...I freaking love this city." Here in Seattle, you see, there ... bicycle polo.   And meanwhile, here I am, in the midst of it all. I've been to three or four parades now. I've taken a nap in a park and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  fill in the gaps =) I still can’t believe that they scheduled these ... working in the Biosafety Level 4 facilities of the CDC, and I wasn’t about ... Vermillion in 1962.”) He also joked about how he was afraid that he would also

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  you were doing, you could in theory get observation time on the VLA. I say "in theory," because as you can probably imagine, getting time on ... astronomers I know, writing proposals is a huge pain in the butt; it's one of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  also measures how much information you can process at a time. In short ... the material can. In his May 19 xTalk “The Art of Insight ... specifically integration. It’s complicated (so much so, in fact, that I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  performance within a group. Now I understand how professors feel. I couldn ... ") in charge of one of the three ELL sections. I kind of think of myself ... . Here’s what we came up with (keep in mind that I’m condensing about 2

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  broadcasting. I showed up at WMBR orientation in early September 2016, became a ... around long enough that the station [annotation note="I say this in a very ... around tend to be dependable; [annotation note="I cannot stress to you how

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  limited example of my hall, I will do my best to explain how. On First East ... (Course 18). I’ve sat transfixed in random places in the hallway many times ... Institute in this post, and will return to the topic in more detail soon. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015