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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  and a number of faculty, staff, and alumni in work to promote personal ... seeking individuals who are committed to contributing to a residential ... secure a holding assignment while your application is reviewed). We will

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  meeting was with a man named Jean Francois, who was in charge of the ... , many of them run out of power in the morning - and electricity is a major ... encounter, in which we met a bunch of ER nurses who are actually from about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  a frosh who hasn’t yet experienced anything—is a waste of time.   ... realization is a blurred, murky grey. i first heard the term “fear of mis-optimizing” (FOMO) in a conversation with Scott Alessandro, the Director of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  -secret military agent whose patriotic duty was to sit in front of a CRT monitor and ... season and spacial dependence peaks in countries with a large population of Christians and high GDPs. The fact that I didn't get a present this year is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  in this picture is me. Sad little me, always walking everywhere ... other interns, plus a great many Google interns as well, live on base at ... sun rises at 6am sets at 8:30pm. You can get a tan sitting in your room

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  There is such a thing as a free event Collegefest is going on this weekend, go get yourself some free junk!

  

  with a few friends to the Collegefest in Hynes Convention Center (it's next to the Prudential Center.) Admission is free if you have a Student Advantage Card and $10 if you don't. Anyway, if you're interested in getting a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 17, 2005
• FAQ / Transfer

  What does MIT consider for transfer admission?

  , competitive applicants typically have a 3.5 GPA or above, and mostly As in math ... institution. We select students who we believe are a good match and who we feel ... transfer admissions process is highly competitive, even more so than the
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  interested in the nucleus of the cell, which encloses the DNA. Your DNA is a ... genome is written in about 3 billion base pairs, or letters. If you stretch ... on to your children. Instead of paper, it is written on a long string

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  shape. Or the many people who play a part in shipping a project and what ... to get practical experience in a software company before even having to ... guided my work but also gave me a lot of freedom in terms of which tasks I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  folly of my cynicism. In fact, she is the person who inspired me to start ... My cousin was involved in the Free Tibet campaign when he attended ... story about some people whom he’d met at Free Tibet rallies who

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  , too, but there is a much higher density of mythological life stories in ... are people I talked to a lot freshmen year, who I now wave to in the ... let yourself rotate under the stars. On a good night in Boston, I see

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  with a B-! And since freshman year is pass/no record, I was in paradise ... Ahhhh. Wednesday. Veteran's Day. A day FREE of classes. A one ... of class a week... so since the deadline for our project is coming up

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Energy Forum Come drink from the solar-paneled firehose. ("Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren…

  

  . Polenske - China * Amy B. Smith - Energy in developing areas 4:00-4:30pm ... way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is." (Well, technically it's a simile, but who's counting?)

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  who dressed up as a test-tube baby. Basically, he dressed in a diaper ... backward correlates with a small increase in the number of fatal auto ... skating rink. Students got to ice skate for free in their creative Halloween

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  grass, taking photos and giving hugs. Of course, today is not a normal ... , Commencement is the most beautiful day of the year. Even in this strange pandemic ... . But I write with a heart that is also full of anguish – because it is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  ) that is effectively incumbent upon all students who live in dining dorms ... add money to a TechCash account and whenever your ID is swiped anywhere on campus – and a few places off campus – the money is deducted from

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  (Ojibwe) is a youth robotics inventor, activist, and advocate for youth who ... Native communities to create a relocation governance framework based in ... Fellow in Native American Studies. In this role, David is leading a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  college. But is that such a bad thing? I mean, college in general is going ... reasons. A lot of the families I knew were deeply set in family traditions ... experience something new. So I did. In late August 2003, I packed up a

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  committees, different cast of characters. This is a very important process, the ... Committees but thought they sounded neat. and, of course: (2) Free food is ... champion our cause, and to make changes in the department based on our

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  Harvard to small highway to Watertown. MIT is in a prime location for you to ... Verizon as I suggest, so in-calling is free. 8. Classes. No, really. I ... "prawns" in Australia. However, the incident of a dingo eating someone

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006