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• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  Thanksgiving. I spent most of it watching Food Network and The Jeffersons on TV ... , which I found basically unwatchable despite the presence of Xena and the ... thanks to the combined efforts of Course X, Rob and Amber, Family Edition

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  figure has been found to a high degree of accuracy, the question then ... the latter, (Save your notes.) but sometimes, they can offer a little of ... one of the easier 8.13 experiments) and gives you, to varying degrees

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  Company of Thieves - This is the kind of song that you enthusiastically sing ... . This is completely uncharacteristic of the rest of their material, just sos ya knows. "The Walk" by Mayer Hawthorne - This is the kind of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  of the capstone options for the aeroastro degree. in true mens ... .06 - Principles of Automatic Control this is a required class for the course 16 (aero/astro) major at MIT. we spent the first day of class watching videos

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  's Talent Identification Program offers the option of either taking classes ... , check out Questbridge, which offers help with the costs of summer programs ... amounts of free time. Let's start off with the Center for Talent

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  of my hall's freshmen, when one of them noticed something odd in the ... friend had noticed was that several of the buildings had tiny stickers on ... a while since the Hack Gallery was updated, and only a couple of these

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  's offer to host this entry. Thanks Keri! I've visited a few of the other ... West) run daily during the year and help many of our 24 residents get to ... living groups - they've been mentioned on the blogs before, but as none of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a ... – to coordinate and support work in the areas of food and agriculture ... delicious. But the conversation around the table was just as good. A mix of

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  that I read in middle school. The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin. Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in ... series of puzzles for the heirs to solve. At the end of the book, after

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  One of Danny B.D’s many contributions to the MIT community, along ... ;n> without going through all the work of actually being <n>? Build a ... taken, and my evolving road has left a record of all the things I ever

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2022 Wait List An update for students who accepted a place on our wait list

  

  According to the admissions profession's Code of Ethics and ... upon date by which students reply to offers of admission. Following May 1, we take about a week to determine the state of the incoming class, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  in space when STS-115 launches. More than one-third of the nation ... total of more than 15,000 hours in space. (Check out the MIT Astronaut ... -Piper said of her MIT experience: "The brief thumbnail sketch of getting here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  -or-break moment- the last chance you have to make use of your CPT before you ... .031 as much as I do, even though it’s slowly draining the life out of me ... artiste in the first week of class (Jorja Smith😍), where we watch Shakira

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  how your degree helps you navigate the "real world" of business, banking ... because we had so much food. My legs are burning from the 30 pounds of ... Putnam Associates, The Office of Management and Budget, The Brookings

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  the class is one of the most rewarding moments of the admissions cycle. I only wish we had room at MIT for more of the amazing people on the ... 've been thinking about that's open for discussion. The announcement of MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  what the last few weeks have been like for us. Best of luck to you all ... Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post-decision-release onslaught of comments. It's eerily quiet, which is both nice and unsettling at

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  , I'm proud to be blogging the debut of this year's Brass Rat to the rest of the world. (I kind of do feel like this is sort of a blogging ... past - please scroll down to the end of the entry for a complete listing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  Thanks to the carefree nature of my elementary and middle school ... to the Museum of Science, one to a theater production of "There's a Boy ... to think of at the moment. When high school came around, the notion of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  Central (across the BU bridge from the far west end of campus). The #1 bus ... websites. I spent a great deal of the summer before my freshman year at MIT ... the northeast corner of campus; other close stops are Hynes/ICA (right

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  spent a good part of the summer hitchhiking up the west coast, and she ... , résumés: I was having none of it--my focus was on adjusting to the new ... this summer and that I should perhaps fix the formatting of my résumé and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015