Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  . As I walked her around the myriad of different labs that serve host to ... video of it. I think it's a pretty good peak into the sorts of things a ... A friend of mine ended up studying lit at a nearby college here in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  part of the winning team last year. Here's an excerpt: A puzzlehunt is a ... combining the answers of several puzzles. Often, these metas are also combined ... of a hidden coin. I'm [annotation note="I am on the same team as Shuli

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ... on Monday about the importance of small farms 4. Brigitte Madrian (Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Kennedy

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  flurry of moths, freed from the beacon that had attracted them, flew off ... middle of the woods in Vermont (yes, I wear flannel and do square dancing), and I started photographing the moths at my home. By the end of high

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  This is the fourth and final installment of our sentimental objects ... usually include a picture of the ceramic mushroom itself in these posts. But ... time to do so before we left campus in what was the craziest week of our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  , stuffed full of fantasy. My eyes flick to the books I loved, gloss over the ... you’ve changed, held up against a cardboard cutout of the person you ... grown stronger. I love that; I loved the focus of falling into my 2

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  that the paper was well outside my normal field of study. So while I ... for the project. So I sort of threw something together and spent a bunch of time running crash simulations and plotting the results. I had no

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  Time Magazine's Person of the Year. It's you. The person reading ... summary of the article- lots of things happened in 2006, but one of the biggest was the general explosion of user-created on-line content. You

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  fields of research. Regardless of the major I end up choosing, I know I ... ’m initiating this life of research. At the time of applying, I was dead set on ... process of finding something that interested me was the furthest thing from

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  ' :) This might sound familiar to those of you who have been reading the blogs ... the MIT branch of Camp Kesem was initially founded. Essentially, Camp ... fun. I'm lucky enough to be one of the CK 2010 counselors :) We

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  received news from 29 members of the Class of 2000 members; below, find an ... Channel as "the future of dance music" [this one deserves its own blog entry ... school, now clerking on the Supreme Court of Virginia graduated from BU

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  of visuals and storytelling. But, once the summer came along, and I was ... the age of TikToks and Reels, video is increasingly becoming the primary ... already had for video. Lastly, I wanted to learn the basics of Premiere Pro

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  ask anybody for help. As you might imagine, sticking 1000 of the brightest kids in the world on a single college campus means that not all of ... to be above average. So one of the most important things you'll learn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  unemployed college freshman."  And the best part of being a prufesssional riter ... the creator of FiveThirtyEight, the stunningly accurate statistical ... election.  In 2008, he got 49 right.  (and, of course, there's the other

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  A few thoughts from this week-- The rapid onset of graduation seems ... of the sink. I'm going to miss nights like these. Then we trekked to ... managed to wrangle the money away. Then a bunch of people around a poker

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  touch with one of my favorite English teachers - indeed, one of the best teachers I've ever had the privilege of taking classes with - from time to ... was the alumni page, which boasts an impressive list of schools where

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  and July). Now, for the meat-n-bread of what I’m doing, check out this ... **: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question: What’s the name of the organization you’re working with again/the ... with a committee of community members, acquired a grant from the county

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  computer, not on the runway...), equations, whoa science is actually kind of weird." I'm excited. Hopefully by the end of the semester, I'll be a fluid-flow-transport-electrokinetics-booty-kicker. I'm looking forward to it! See? I'm a quarter of the way there

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  perfect 100% of the time. (3) It's easy to feel sad and miserable about ... to be sending several up several prayers during the course of this ... wake-up alarms - all very loud. To offset the impending stress of this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  regular action, regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of the past few years, we have admitted hundreds of deferred students ... report. You can download one off of the website if you need one. Your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004