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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  work? Is the program composed of self-starters, with very little peer ... developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks ... ." -Richard Feynman (Class of 1939) People get very caught up in the idea that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  If you're looking for an in-depth view of Career Fair and all the vast opportunities that it offers MIT students, then you're in the wrong ... -shirts (the technical term is "swag"), and there was plenty of that. This story

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  miscellaneous tasks an employee may be required to perform outside the scope of their stated job description. Of all of the other duties I’ve been assigned, running the CPW Closing Show is by far one of my favorites. As

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in ... cryptographer, 1997 Given the hype surrounding the potential applications of ... opportunities to learn about nanotech. Given the vague definition of the term

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  don't really have my finger on the pulse of American youth culture (and ... week of orientation, I had to get out my cell phone all the time to give ... calls, I was in general surprised at the lack of service in such a large

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  ...Referring to the application fee:“Full name of the applicant must be on the money ... . _________________________________ Q: I have a question about one of the short answer questions. There is ... about that or question the sincerity of the career choice(s) that I may

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  tap dance break or something in the middle, and at the end of the song ... old adage "Chemical engineering is the practice of doing for a profit ... metal-ligand catalyst via spectoscopy (5.04), finding the best set of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  really could've prepared me for the reality of it. It's a genuine timesuck ... realized that, though; they stopped offering 5.60 which is the full semester course and they're only offering the half semester ones now, which I guess

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Going Home We're halfway through MIT? o____o

  

  the size of half a penny. Once you see this and determined that most of ... a condensed "sauce" at the bottom of the skillet. Remove the chicken ... portion of the sauce and add water or just boil/stir-fry the vegetables

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 23, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and ... credit for some of the introductory classes"]ASE.[/annotation] When ... first few days at MIT in the sea of faces and blur of names, hoping to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  . I had expected something worse, or at the very least, some degree of ... Part One: On the last Friday of April, a stubby little rocket made ... . Unfortunately, I was crouched on the grass for the majority of the 6 seconds (I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  classes by preregistering on WebSIS before the beginning of the next ... where you can pick up a poster of the LSC schedule. As for freshmen, when ... Orientation, but then second term, you join the rest of the world and do things

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  Buick Regal — not the whole car but about 200 parts (which is about 1% of ... a great time and had some good crews (was voted EARC coach of the year ... in rowing. I cox a few times every year, always racing in the Head of

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  even when I wasn't designing the experiments I had a lot of freedom ... of the technical work on it. Albert still helps me with experimental design, but I have a strong enough understanding of both the project and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  break, I took large bites out of the Big Apple on my two visits to New ... unassuming, only the giant blue solar panels on the roof give any indication of ... garden insulates the building and offers a quiet haven for residents

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  and every one of them. But we offer these things up for them - the only ... Last Friday afternoon, I - like many of you - learned of the awful ... Orchestra, who had all assembled thanks to the idea of Adam Boyles, our

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Best from staff

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  among many factors in the admission of students to selective STEM degree ... As we conclude our work with the Class of 2027, and turn our attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  received questions from adMITs about whether the terms of their admissions offer require them to take all the AP exams they had planned. The short ... to please follow your school policy if possible. However, your offer of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  . ‘18, who also approved the title of this post) Yikes! This is the ... . Incidentally, the first use of “yikes” in an MIT Admissions blog post dates back ... a couple of these majestic creatures frolicking in the grass. Like

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  suggested events to attend and tips on making the most of your CPW experience ... Sadoway, John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry, will welcome the ... MIT Parents Association and the MIT Club of Boston, this reception is

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009