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• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  "Oh yea you guys don't have armadillos up there in yankeeland" Another intern told me one day during work.  I've never been called a yankee before I moved to Houston, Texas this summer to start my internship at TMK

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  December 3, 2007. France. I'm in France. But I just got done with Italy. And ... reason I came to McDonald's in the first place. I mean, I'm glad I found ... -en-Provence, France. I think. I'll probably be in Spain by the next time I blog, so

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  . That’s in no small part because I really dislike computer SPAM. We ... I know you’re already thinking to yourself, “Where is Dave going to ... tech like a computer or iPod? Or will I unexpectedly shift gears into a

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A question for you… No seriously I have a question

  

  to quantum I'll have to rope in my Course 8 suitemate) "Engineery ... to understand? I'm going to try to doodle explain it the best I can (I'll explain why later) in a blog post. Some categories to think about

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  , honesty, growing up, and how everyone is weird in their own wonderful way ... ! Here is a small sampling of events in our dorm Next House and Other ... getting lost looking for events? Instead, get lost in this year’s Next Big

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of study abroad programs are available?

  ? How about combining a study-abroad experience with an internship in ... Interested in studying abroad for an academic year in the U.K. or a semester in South Africa? Want to improve your foreign language skills by
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  For the last six years now, I have started this post with a jaunty ... pandemic disrupted, but here in Cambridge, vaccination rates are high, and so ... inside my house now. i love it, but fear for when it a w a k e n s a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  pretty much in your shoes. I've identified a college that I was very passionate about way back in August, and knew I wanted to ED it, no questions ... , I was shocked when I received a deferral letter in the mail - and this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post

  

  concern. But in honor of "Patriot's Day" (I honestly never quite figured ... project in case you couldn't come to CPW and see it for yourself), but I ... Hello folks of the blogosphere! Greetings from Columbia, MO. Now I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  invest in. I found out about them from one of my friends, Yasyf M. '17, who ... their majors. Over the past few years I've gotten very involved in the ... community. Today I'd like to take a look at Dorm Room Fund, a venture fund

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  ’re curled up in the kitchen watching Veronica Mars, and when I’m done with ... which here means “falling asleep with my laptop open.”) I got in on Pi ... seemed like the most important thing in the world. In the years since, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  When I tell people that I'm majoring in Biology, they typically ... series, I decided to make an episode about some things I do in the lab! It ... in order to amplify the correct fragment I'm interested in, I can run

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July A video experiment just for the heck of it

  

  ) audio in silence and do some quick editing. Anyway, I promise there will ... filmmaking skillz). I should probably also put in a shameless plug to join the ... completely by one of the YouTubers I watch regularly, Emily Diana Ruth. She

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…

  

  Taking a break from reading today, I saw Matt's latest post and had to chuckle. In looking back a year, he references this post, in which I ... year - you're in for a serious treat. I honestly think this is one of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 6, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do dual enrollment students apply as a first-year or transfer applicant?

  Students participating in dual enrollment programs or taking college-level courses while in high school apply for first-year admission at MIT. If you apply to MIT while you're still in high school, you're considered a first
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Paternity Leave I'm back! A few words on the Harvard Admissions Institute and such.

  

  posted in response to my last entry about raising siblings to be friends. It's truly something that I'll keep and refer to in the coming years. I wrapped up paternity leave last weekend and have been at the Harvard

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  text very well or at all, that's okay! What I'll do in this section is ... be quite common in other languages). I recommend you take a look at ... , etc. in our mouth. There are other ways to categorize. How can we tell

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Quick Update My neighbors are celebrating by firing guns in the air which is not conducive to…

  

  New year's eve here in Karachi. Assault rifle fire is really loud. I can hear the pings of bullets landing in the street. As long as the electricity is flowing and the guns are shooting, I'll be awake in the basement

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  21st Century Education? Food for thought.

  

  So I just read this article in Time Magazine about bringing schools out of the 20th century. So putting this in the context of your ... I highlighted in this entry.

  • by Bryan
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  In my last post, I mentioned that I had gone on my first caving adventure with the MIT Caving Club. I really enjoyed it, and I wanted to ... extremely interesting, and I really want to go on more trips with them in the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013