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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  . That’s why it’s so great that programs like GEL are becoming part of the ... coursework, and that’s how to deal with all the parts of your job that aren ... academia changing rapidly, it’s reasonable to say that you too might be

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  a 1-mile radius of my room which is significant since it’s snowy and ... ). I could do all that, but there’s a pear clafouti recipe I’m dying to ... MIT Dramashop’s production of Hydriotaphia, in which I basically played

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  for the MIT Cross Country and Track teams, it’s a whole different ... than the identical role in high school. It’s a delicate balance of ... said. Since then, he’s been Executive Officer of a 600-soldier engineer

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  , but we know what it is. It’s very easy to make, but I realize the name ... contractions to refer to everything, and it’s taken me two decades to realize no ... team with a good idea or a good team with a bad idea? There’s another

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  nearest grocery store. There’s a gas station, two schools, and a cluster of houses occupied by teachers…and that’s it. It looks like this in every ... hogan: Is your mind blown yet? It’s a completely different world. This

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  , was the chance to go home and see my family, including my sister’s cat ... make your flight. Even though it’s rush hour, the Silver Line to the ... see whether your ID matches the name on your boarding pass will feel it’s

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  On Friday evening, I made the disturbing discovery that my computer’s ... were all I needed. I now feel moderately prepared for tomorrow’s exam ... pictures, just two weeks earlier (and not emptied my camera’s memory card

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  from “decent” to “huh, that’s a little weird, but okay” and “is that even ... is that there’s a pretty universal handful of questions that all ... because oh it’s still summer there. I’ll be fine. HAH. WRONG. I didn’t see

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  hundreds or perhaps thousands of years, rather than the 10s of years in

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  San Francisco, je t’aime nothing to do with mit :3 (...intern in cali! )

  

  Back in March, I typed into our internship database: “california health internship.” Little did I know that this would turn out to be an AMAZING summer. I worked at an…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  grades on absolute letter grades, which means +'s and -'s have no meaning. thus, +'s are the grades that are most frustrating to get at MIT, since

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  . Parent’s Hospitality Lounge Grab a cup of coffee or tea and chat with ... ’ll ask lots of questions. It’s the way our students learn and will work for ... be at MIT, I’ll never forget the look on my mother’s face when I told

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come to MIT Get a free haircut!

  

  It’s spring break! Time for students to stop frantically trying to finish psets and start less-frantically trying to take care of all the things they pushed aside for psets before. Catherine ’12 was quite busy

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  offering pizza at its 7 pm meeting? Tough luck, Chess club, Debate’s offering ... USAID) and Senator John Edwards. That’s impressive. Let’s be honest. This ... necessities? That’s the gist behind the Action Challenge. (So sign up! Once the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An Enigma Wrapped In A Riddle A prize will go to the first person to unwrap this mystery.

  

  Noah and said construction in not an ark. Good Luck! P.S. A prize will

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Applications… Things are getting busy here at MIT Admissions!

  

  seen so much pink!" (This year's application cover sheets are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT TechTV: Incredible videos from the MIT community YouTube has nothing on us.

  

  (in Origami) Vol. 1 — (Does Brian look familiar? That’s because I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 20, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  activities I’m involved with. There’s just so much stuff that sounds so cool; I ... what’s *really* important to me. For example, I was invited to join the ... two: work, sleep, or a social life. It’s not a hard and fast rule, but

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  . That’s right, if you don’t ask me questions on my blog, I will call your house and suck them out of you. No, really. I fully acknowledge that it’s ... waters. I would rather labor over advanced biology or mechanics, it’s all

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Update from selection We're working through the weekend towards admitting the Class of 2011.

  

  temperatures (it hit 62 degrees F today, just shy of 1932's 65). But we were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2006