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• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  Phil asked, "oh btw Melis, would u equally prefer working at MIT doing a urop over the summer as working at NIH? I was thinking about different options next summer... thanks." In response, I have to say that my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  and maintenance to which one would otherwise attend. I stumbled upon the ... up on work. You'd be surprised how much time during the day I used to ... Hello, gentle readers! For those of you who don't know me, I've been

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  How was your CPW? It was definitely one of my favorites. I had lots of fun meeting a you future froshies in person. Today I wanted to ... home. But I also become friends with people who I would've never imagined

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  ,000 or more many of them would be paying for college. I'm not writing to ... for a year. They feared I would never go to university (I did) nor ... I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  humanities at MIT is non-trivial. In fact, I have just proved this fact in such ... student, I devote at minimum ten hours a week to thinking about the ... that the humanities don't unfriend me on Facebook. In my endeavors, I am

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  think a vegan would survive? I am in fact a vegetarian at MIT, and I ... has a question: Jess, I had a question, how do you get placed in your dorm? Do you just get put in randomly? Because I would really like to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  Yesterday I was at the grocery store. I needed to get soymilk, because it is lent and I am fasting. I try to fast like my father does, the ... year I didn’t fully since I cook for myself with my dorm mates and it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving!

  

  So I'm about to cook a turkey for the first time in my life, but before I foray out into the world of basting and boiling, I wanted to wish ... this guy, many Americans would be feasting on their national bird over

  • by Bryan
  • November 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  she taught Jonathan Safran Foer how to write, and then I realized she ... by Joyce Carol Oates that we read in AP English. When I read it, I ... understood what I was talking about at all, and Mrs. O'Brien told me I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  recognition software]. I would end up borrowing my roommate's face to get the ... do not know if Algorithmic Justice League would have existed had I not ... i mentioned joy in a blog post a few weeks ago, when she won the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to ... how classes and activities are going. Some of our most recent artistic ... onlookers into the piece. I found myself staring intently at the soft light

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  . …and I’m very nervous, because I’m an idealistic 21-year-old who would ... My name is Anna Ho, and I am a student at – No, no. That’s not the point. My name is Anna Ho, and I am a constituent living in Cambridge. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  and learned how to use fast fabrication methods.  And I built a pair of ... Below is one of the robots I built for 2.007, MIT's extremely popular ... "robot" I ever built, on the first day of 2.007: Before I took 2.007, I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  , “How are you?” “I’m okay.” “No, how are you doing, really?” After a long ... communicate with each other, designing how we involve ourselves or get others ... January I wrote a post, “Colors”, detailing the MIT community’s response to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  literary feet through a dry analysis and I figured you all would appreciate ... fair through this post, you know how I’d answer this question with ... doodles that I drew during class today. Nay – today… we get down to BUSINESS

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to ... very, very long way. I actually would be interested in trying to rewrite ... this was kind of helpful and gave some insight into how I approach any

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  common knowledge that I never thought to wonder about how it came to be ... . This guy invented that? How come I've never heard of him? The premise of ... research facility on campus that would be known as the Whitehead Institute

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  program. I became a scientist because of this program, and I would be very ... letter in the Senate? Dan: No, but I would be happy to start one. Wait ... I discuss how to get scientists more involved in advocacy, and what a

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

  Before MIT goes APE, I learn how to eat dumplings FAST. ...or at least learn how to morph into a dumpling eating machine.

  

  I should be studying for my 1.00 and 3.091 exams right now...but I'm not. It has been a while since I uploaded a video, I have a lot of ... the end of the show...and here is how we kicked off the beginning of the

  • by Celena C. '12
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  . I ask him how his life’s been lately. He pulls out his cellphone, and ... and definitely occupied (i.e, I would be doing something or other but I ... On a weekday, I meet my friend Alberto H. ‘17, who I haven’t seen in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015