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• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  the forms and structures of argumentation, including organization of ideas, awareness of audience, methods of persuasion, evidence, factual vs. emotional argument, figures of speech, and historical forms and uses of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  one of my hometown crew from back in NH, but he now lives out in the bay ... opportunity to do so. Greg is one of the most talented makers I've ever met. He ... this in college while pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering. Greg

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  amount of passion, creativity, and pure intelligence that suffuse all of ... campus culture we have all come to know and love. The traditional image of a college professor is, I think, something along the lines of an

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  On Wednesday, 70 degree weather spurred MIT students to sport cute sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm, with accumulations of 5 to 8 inches of snow expected. Meanwhile crude oil

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  degree from MIT within 90 days of each other, really, what can I not do ... 111-year history, in 1918. That was because of World War 1. So it's not ... Susan Hockfield, but I'm sick of hearing about global warming when I check

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  dogs as a college student, and I just am a fan of more spice in my life ... how to cook. Now I must say I'm to a degree spoiled, both my mom and ... Tabasco sauce....not a great idea) Second entree: Spaghetti with Cream of

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  I have always loved writing. I have always enjoyed the freedom of ... narrative. On the visual arts side, I spent a lot of time doing Blender (a 3D ... cancer research. As I have heard stories of friends, I have found a problem

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  As some of you may know I am a big Patriots fan. Yesterday the Patriots lost to the Giants. It was pretty painful. But the midst of it all ... inconsistent on both sides of the ball. Earlier this season, when the Patriots

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  apartments over 2 days - all in 90-degree weather. There were all sorts of ... weeks ago, and spent the first week in the comfort of my relatives’ home ... , touring, eating lots. There in Chengdu, capital of the Sichuan Province, I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  actually enrolled in, and to a pretty good degree of certainty we think we ... My cat is a little ball of static lately. It can't be too much fun to ... of my toothpaste and finally confronted the task of getting a new tube

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  real feel of -15 degrees. Just don’t do this one. Highly not recommended ... As I write this on the final day of the year, I cannot help but think ... far, been the most exciting year of my life to say the least. Last year

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  once one of the nicest towns in central Pennsylvania. It was morning; the ... -three percent and the temperature was seventeen degrees Celsius. One had left ... heavy scrape of a chair. “—your eggs, Mr. Concord.” “Thank you, Mrs

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  process the decisions, I thought I'd offer some thoughts on the process ... great care and thoroughness that they deserve. On behalf of the entire ... your stories with us. We have all been truly inspired by them. Many of

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  As many of you know I am a FIRST Robotics nut and Kool-Aid drinking member of the Kult of Kamen. One of the (many) things Dean Kamen has said ... an issue I've written about before in other venues on the subject of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of ... behalf of the society. During these sessions we had discussions with ... demonstration of the Air Force Drill Team, Hooahh! The Air Force Association

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  aren't expecting. I plan on doing a bit of that myself actually, so hopefully you're up for it. As you may or may not already know, it's kind of cold at MIT right now (13 degrees). What does cold mean? Cold means snow

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  degrees and got a whole lot of planning experience being the operations ... swing of things and begin posting regularly again. When we last left each other, I'd finished the hardest semester of my undergraduate career. I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , graceful, and the kind of person who, when I'm tired and crying at 2 in the morning, will bring me a box of chocolate (Twix ♥) and offer me a hug. I've seen her in a variety of roles over the past year and a half or so: she

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  heartbreaking, than I imagined back in July when it was spoken of in distant ... admissions veterans were probably speaking in the IHTFP tone: that mix of dread ... 't know that I'm at the "embrace" stage of my MIT evolution (I think I

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  another week or two before I get back in the swing of things. Incidentally ... until the middle of the night--it makes me nostalgic for my own Freshman ... circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005