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• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  scheduled around psets or paid for in punted psets. One such spontaneous ... choice for several trips I took to Boston in high school, and we never got ... the rocks to objects in our lives: one looked like lipstick, one like

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  in New Orleans. Looking to the left in my room. Eventually the bed ... 't have available at the time. Looking to the right in my room. This wall ... So I know the entire world has been waiting anxiously for the release

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  look around MIT for lots of examples of cool projects, like: Disco ... stuff, for business, and for pleasure"), Instructables is kind of an open ... little-known fact that we in admissions get as excited about cool projects

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  MIT waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end ... or major Y declines, are you likely to look for another student like ... addresses will be sent an email at the same time). Students can either send in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  't interested in them enough to take an entire class on them. In May, I watched ... fascinating, so when I was looking for a [annotation note="the art requirement ... the story behind the song. All in all, the homework for this class each

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  ISEF, then you can learn more about it and look for an affiliated fair in ... for students in grades 9–12.     On Wednesday, May 13th, I ... ISEF, here is a description from the Society for Science and the Public

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  this summer and I'm currently looking for an apartment somewhere near the ... 's nerd-speak for inconsistencies in high temperature superconductors. If ... besides detonate huge bombs in the desert. What they do have though, is an

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  costs just about $2. And then you look at it and you're like, "$2 for yams ... ? He wrote music while working as an actuarial clerk for $5 an hour and ... shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  finished the talk in half an hour or so, we answered individual questions for ... . More on that later. I'm in Phoenix for the 2016 Intel International ... qualify for more than $4,000,000 in scholarships, Special Awards (which are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  "rotation measures" for each millisecond pulsar (MSP) in the globular cluster ... value for each MSP in the cluster and then have fun comparing them and ... . In preparation, I made my poster, and poked around for contact

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  AM. Since I have the worst luck in the world, I had a serious case of ... hard kicks in the face. (Remind me to tell you about how I failed my swim ... my KeyboardFace™ wasn't caused by one big epic scientific fail for once

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  's dream job: she researches Japanese hip-hop for Professor Ian Condry, an ... for this potentially very useful database. In order to do this, she is ... examples for the points made in Professor Condry's book. Ideally, this

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  should look at each of them and, somewhere in the back of our minds, for ... headed by our religious studies teacher. For these six years in a cozy but ... mosques in return, provoking an equivalent assault on churches. The actions

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  decisions, to get an email back about a potential UROP, waiting for something ... to take an exam tonight at 7:30 pm, but I'm also waiting to go home for ... high school waiting for decisions, I raced in three different regattas

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  deposited in holes that looked like the windows in Simmons. Did you know ... scorers won a free trip to Japan to compete in an even larger design ... 'll be in the machine shop starting to build the basic platform for our car

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  organization for lost orphaned baby whales in the middle of Africa, speak Spanish ... , these students put in an immense amount of work and were able to overcome ... ideas. In fact for Christmas, some of the faculty used their own money to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  the many things I have to look forward to. For starters, I've slogged ... , I already have something to look forward to for all four of them. Let ... , I have an edge in this class that I wouldn't otherwise enjoy. Even so

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lewis Music Library Tra la la

  

  the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1987, and just happens to be an ... they were in braids for the photo.) Each of the 19 glass panels on the ... keeps the most recent copies of each out for browsing. In addition to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  below in the comments, all the way through midnight tomorrow... If you haven't yet replied: As soon as you've made up your mind for sure about ... 's okay, we know you're making the best choice for yourself), or to request

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  Materials for Biology, which hopefully will be a blend of my interests in science and media. But, in waiting for the summer session to start, I ... cheer for good measure. After busy days of checking people in, giving

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014