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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  .  He helped to figure out a longstanding mystery in fluid mechanics about ... AWESOME he is at research), so he stayed at MIT.  After finishing his PhD in ... . Brian came to MIT from California as an undergrad.  He majored in

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  your profile a map of all the places in the world that you have been. As ... , this is clearly a very US-centric program, since it delineates the US ... 'm spending spring break visiting Adelaide in France, with a 2 day excursion to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last…

  

  . In other words, if we feel that a mid-year report is needed to make a ... Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the ... worry about this. In a case where we need to see a mid-year report and it

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  of logistical issues like housing, etc. So how do I go about finding a ... MonsterTrak, which is a version of Monster where companies will post their ... Office. In addition to the Career Office, there's also UPOP, a program for

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  , a grueling three hours of class so early in the morning is difficult ... grateful that i get the chance to do this, though! every dance i’m in is a ... the month-long lull that is IAP, there isn’t much to talk about besides

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  in to the weekend, I think you can learn a lot. That being said, CPW is far from "fake" -- actually, it is the true MIT, in a supersaturated ... time helping to set expectations for the weekend. Because CPW is such a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

    Let's review a concept taught in the lowest levels of ... slide a book across a table, its displacement is equal to the distance it ... am awake is spent going back and forth from the building in which I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  about Mystery Hunt is how, in some senses, it is a microcosm of MIT ... synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in ... coin and win the hunt in a mere 25--no, 15--no, 5 puzzles, if they'd only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  (perhaps more on this in a future entry), but I'm happy that it is a program ... ABC has a new reality television show called The Scholar, which is a ... , a prize that could be worth as much as $240,000. They will have to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  Department in fall, 2006: The Challenge of World Poverty. The class is intended ... ? Should we leave it to the NGOs? Where is the best place to intervene? How ... From the comments on my last entry, the mean is 3.21748954013248 and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...

  

  understand it, is much later than pretty much every other school in the country. Kind of cool. And with Drop Date, comes Piano Drop! Piano Drop is a ... time, and I can't wait to see the issue come out in just a few weeks

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  thing I’m slowly learning is: Don’t judge a good decision by how the consequences turn out. A good decision is based on how well you processed the ... excuse of coffee since neither of us is a fan. One of his questions posed

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  holly berry, which in hindsight is not a berry one consumes, but the ... prefer walking. There is a strangely high density of ice cream shops in ... -between.  The grass is dead in the park this winter, because in a desert we have a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  play a similar role to that of the Graduate Residence Tutor (GRT) in the dormitories. We're there to offer advice, make sure there is soda in the pop ... it. I've really had a good time living in the house this year. I have

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  , could be acquired in a variety of stores, some of them nearby, some not ... metaphor of a post-it-encrusted cubicle? Anything is possible, but the ... -classical music until high school, so this is all kind of new, but jazz is like a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  though or how much further we had to go, but we did feel a bit better that ... is very involved in climbing and hiking and other wonderful adventures ... and informed us that there was a place in the woods nearby called the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  , have no time limit.  They can quickly fling a black hole in the middle of ... been working in teams to design, build, and control robots to assist a hemiplegic patient in a few daily tasks, with the end goal of performing in a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  In The Mail Well folks, the time has come. The letters are in the mail.

  

  to reflect the clean-shaven face, as promised (sorry mootmom, but a pact is a pact). :-) Enjoy these other pics from the day's festivities ... exhausted (Amy)... All in all, we're relieved that this part of the journey is

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  . We have a special envelope opening machine that is pretty awesome; non ... sort of document it is (this is why documents that were sent in the same ... ,000+ applications in a small space, so the filing can get a little crowded! When your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  really, for how quickly it was dredged up again, like the structure of a ... ’d have to draw, or if they saw their home in a new light, with sharper ... in a crowd pulsing and throbbing with phones held in the air like

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025