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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  a picture of this process, this is when we started to realize how big ... reports that the snowman's head had indeed been removed and destroyed in a ... gave it a ceremonial sending off in the moat and sought a replacement. A

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is ... felt. To me a foreign language was and is more than just the translation ... -5 hours a day. Not because I wanted a grade in the class, but because every

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  their poster is about. I was intimidated at first to be in a room full of ... Survey Satellite, or TESS, which is a NASA/MIT-led satellite that monitors ... an exoplanet orbits a star and passes in front, it causes the light

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  Yesterday was my team's first full day in Zambia, and what a day it was! We took a minibus from where we're staying to downtown Lusaka ... drivers only leave a stop if their bus is full, so it is an interesting

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  (it's 6. That's it. The answer is 6*), getting in based on a fabrication ... This is more of a mini-entry, a blogget if you will. I know that for a good portion of you, the pressure is on, as there's officially

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  attended Francis Polytechnic High School , which is a public school in Sun ... campus, I lived in La Casa Castellana (Spanish House), which is a ... will really fit in. MIT is a place for very talented people who want to

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  TELETHONNNNN brought to you by Domino's

  

  finished a three hour shift of the Admissions Telethon, calling to ... do you tell a high school senior during a surprise phone call on a ... person I called, but I understand if we caught you off guard or in the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  positive thing to people's lives. this is a good feeling and i'd like it to ... chambers and filter bubbles. Wikipedia says:   A filter bubble is a result of a personalized search in which a website algorithm selectively

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room ... much of Bad Ideas, unfortunately. But I did make it a point to go to one ... whole four hours) is just a Bad Idea. The weekend also consisted of a rat

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  puzzles solved yet this morning. Can we get a hint? And everyone is still asleep. :( Update #4 (11:41 AM) The dry spell is over! We just solved a puzzle. We called in like a gajillion different answer, but finally, WE GOT

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  Manufacturing I. In this class everybody is issued a box of materials, taught some ... freebie entry, an entry in which all we have to do is share with you our ... are Wednesdays with that gap in the middle, but the rest is pretty full

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

  self-confidence to pursue a career in biological research, but also a ... always welcoming and intellectually stimulating! The city: Kyoto is a ... Japan again, it is a cross-cultural and intellectual growth experience

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  's been a "pset, sleep, blog –– pick two" kind of time, so instead of writing about my life, I'll do a little show-and-tell.   Half of getting anything done is really just remembering to actually do it, and I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  in Zambia. To make a long story short, the only road to Mwape (the ... I think it is different now. It is one thing to understand a fact or ... . Instead, we spent more time in the capital city of Lusaka, where we: 1) met

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  students do. But that's not the case; admissions is a year-round job, and while we're not doing any admitting over the summer, there is still a lot ... ? Preparing for the influx of summer visitors. Beginning in a few weeks, crowds

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  torrent of science that is present everyday. =D --- In other news, I'm a ... Sometime in the last month, I was forwarded a request to blog about ... debate, too! We attend several conferences in a year - this year, we had 5

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  taillights in front of you. Climbing as a sport is essentially non ... it's much akin to trying to appreciate the shirt your friend is wearing when you haven't seen your friend in a while. Being away from the 'tvte

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  articulate and clear way. She is precocious in her ability to organize a ... Spackenkill Student is a Youthful Leader April 28, 2006 By Jeremy ... , but she has accomplished more in her 17 years than many people do in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  [by Mirat Shah '08] My name is Mirat and I am a junior studying ... class. And in between terms, we get 6 weeks off, which is pretty amazing ... like pizza, bagels, and ice cream in winter. And I spent way too much

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  . Actor James Woods came close in 1969 but dropped out a semester before ... biology teacher Barbara Pittenger for inspiring him to pursue a major in ... better." Mr. Taylor will pursue a double major in management science and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006