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• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  institute. Her senior thesis is in the use of micro-electro-mechanical devises in tissue engineering. She also is editor-in-chief of the M ... coverage of the Rhodes announcement: It occurred to Melis N. Anahtar's family

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  might be after the end of the semester']managing everything ... and learning psychology, but this feels a little like the zone of ... the standard sleep schedule of the past few semesters—2 AM to 10 AM, not

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  middle of Boston Harbor. Why? Well, sometime over the summer Conner 2 ... boat; let's spend the dorm's money and take a trip out into the middle of ... at its finest Supposedly it provides 1/3 of all the electrical power to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  resolution this year. -- It’s 2014! 2013 was the year of Wrecking Ball, What Does the Fox Say, the premiere of the Class of 2017, the finale of the class of 2013, the government shutdown, and a host of millions of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  Considering the lack of inactivity on these blogs in the past week or ... of the most vaguely negated sentences ever or what?), but this one was ... the undependable nature of our printer to announcements for parties to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  by the capital Greek letter omega. The inverse of resistance is ... this summer. There was some great food courtesy of the MIT Faculty Club ... speech turned out to be excellent, delving into the nature of reality, mass

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  It’s the start of my third year here, and once again I am smiling at ... ? Well, it’s the start of a new half of college. This year, I was asked ... of the Harvard Art Museum). During our introductions last week, I told

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  , and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was ... . Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have complicated feelings that you don't know what to call

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  , and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was ... . Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have complicated feelings that you don't know

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  This is Akash: Akash is the president of the Class of 2009 (like ... all know, today was the premiere of a much-anticipated movie. What movie is that? Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, of course! One

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  have a cloud covering, so though most of the day was hot, it wasn ... poured down my face and into every crevice of my body. On top of that, the streets of Port-Au-Prince are extremely dusty, so by the end of the day we

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  leads you. One. Don't look: what's the color of the floor in the room you ... nature of memory is that each time you recall something the image corrupts ... without stopping to look around. Now the memories of these hallways have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  Dear Applicant to the Class of 2019, The long awaited season of ... most formative (and simply the best) years of your academic path. With ... ’t Procrastinate. Enjoy.You are among the oldest generation of students in your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  -based classes (among others), whose projects span the course of several months ... and open-ended, which means that there’s a lot of groping walls in the ... fair chunk of the grade to participating in various forms – whether it

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our ... front of the student center steps. Over 80,000 people have died and more ... homes and families, but also for the future rehabilitation of earthquake

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  past couple of weeks. As we head into the last couple weeks of the ... /lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and ... remaining until we are seniors. This is scary as I look at the long list of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  much just going nuts. For our final (9th) lab of the semester, we were ... impulse with various levels of damping, etc. The lab setup my partner Pall ... do with the force gauge involves measuring the strength of your bicep

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving in England Celebrating a North American holiday in Britain.

  

  .5 months already!" I've been more along the lines of "I can't believe it ... office held a Thanksgiving Dinner for us! All of the MIT students were ... the end of it. The chefs. They don't understand why we like turkey so

  • by Cambridge
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  "]REX[/annotation] as a representative of my Burton Conner community, the Burton Third ... help keep the culture going. normally, the 50-some members of my living ... from all over the dorm. this year, however, the members of the floor are

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  Charles River on the north and the glittery high rises of Back Bay Boston on ... cranny, and of course, friendship and love and community. But!!  The ... one of my work week tasks has been to patch up holes in the basement

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023