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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  Transportation is a much smaller conference put on at the end of the week by the ... what this week will entail and what type of issues are at the forefront ... snowstorm of the season in Boston, and an expected ice storm in DC (who ever

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  and compacting all the fun parts of a year at MIT into three days ... of free food? I'm excited. So much so that I'm running two East Campus events. Guess what they are based on this picture of my bookshelf. Since I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

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

  

  .020 group final project...and so on. Not to mention, the next issue of MURJ is ... hard at work getting the magazine, which is entirely student-produced, ready to send to the publishers. It's so hosing but so awesome at the same

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

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  Part One: Getting people together. Abstract. In our investigation of ... entirely relatable. Due to the overwhelming popularity of the webcomic here at MIT, he was extended an invitation to speak on campus, which he

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  One week down! One of you asked about what I'm doing down here -- I ... , so basically, applying technology to the analysis and optimization of ... , eight hours in an office sort of fly by if you're enjoying what you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  , college applications were at the forefront of my mind. I scrapped essays ... with all the members of Toons at that callback, I really enjoyed it. It ... feared that colleges would reject me on basis of senior fall grades alone

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  )[/caption] Lasell University and the University of Massachusetts at Boston won't be ... evolutionarily related to each other? Of course not. If you said yes, then you ... sure that I can claim the title of being the founder of mascot

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  The scene: Friday morning, about 9:10am Me: *Sits down at table with a bunch of people I don’t know* Instructor: “Ok, each team should ... : “Alright, you have a packet in front of you. You have 30 minutes to complete

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  Julie Barr over at the Slice of MIT blog:       In the ... quickly ran out of room. There's an incredibly interesting story to how MIT ... ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  Feast, and at one point on Saturday morning I managed to fill all of the ... the time to get out the DVD, here's a YouTube video of them wrestling at ... If you didn't already think that this past weekend at MIT was jam

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  briefly thought that the "oxygen" at the end of the word CITGO on that ... similar to flow. I keep the objective at the back of my mind for a few days ... Not every writer is an artist. Not every piece of writing is a work

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  listen and follow along with the rest of the band and the actors at the ... ,[/annotation]but part of me thinks that at least part of it must be my doing. In these ... 's not because of any particular musical expertise of mine, then at least a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  are generally at the top of my priority list. And also, I figured that ... "...only uninterested people." I kind of hate coming up with titles ... . Chesterton. In any case, the entire point of that little tangent was to get on

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  summer gig. A really cool summer gig. That was all. At the end of the ... UROPs. You've heard about them before, but here's a refresher. At MIT, we have lots of professors doing research. We have lots of

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  groups get together at the end of the semester to schedule next semester ... I'm given to understand that at other colleges, students actually get a luxurious full week off between the end of classes and the start of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  standing culture that our ancestors may have had at any point of time. We ... the default language of the office. At lunch, I would sit and watch as ... language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  school or work in honor of Veteran's Day, including at MIT. However, I ... 's lots of nights and weekends of work. But at the end, the final class will ... minister 50 years ago today. He is responsible for much of whatever good

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  awesome time to be in, at, and around MIT. There's all kinds of art ... title of this entry. If you haven't thrown up yet, hang on. My friends ... rest of this worse. Before I get fired for writing a blog post

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  are you prefrosh? Long time no talk, although some of you got to enjoy our sweet dance party a couple of weeks ago (which included a friendly ... dwindling rapidly (for a variety of reasons) and blogging is one of the few

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  winners ice cream at J.P. Licks, which has some of the best ice cream in ... The thing about summer is the weeks kind of all run together, so all the days just sort of bleed into each other and everything starts to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008