Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those ... world, a little cross-section of life at MIT. I'll be taking you through ... was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  to Berlin at... well, if it wasn't 5 AM, it was sure close to it. Of ... DID YOU KNOW? Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was inspired ... year before The Origin of Species was published. Berlin is truly an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* Everyone knows the deal - MIT is a constant whirlwind of PSETs, exams, lectures, and the occasional puppy labs. For several of us, there’s so much more

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  recreates a rough version of an Iron Man suit using parts "borrowed" from campus. Presumably, she spent a lot of time at the Stata Loading Dock ... girl from Chicago studying at MIT. She will be taking Tony Stark's place

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  know many of you have been awaiting news about our wait list. tldr ... that we are able to admit 28 students this year. Today, at 5PM Eastern ... things go with the FCC. At that point, we will consider our wait list

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  continue my adventures here at MIT by doing all the things. So when I got an e-mail from one of our alums, Mitch B. '03, about an underground Ice Skating place at a Vermont quarry, I immediately responded that I wanted to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  hurry you can still catch it at the Class of 2014 site! (use the username ... the wonders of MIT I planned to register for” to “that potentially life ... inexplicably decided to watch all 5 seasons of ‘Quantum Leap’ back-to-back, which

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  really long-winded and kind of boring entry while working Burton ... : -I am not a chapstick addict, but I carry two tubes on me at all times... in case there's a chapping emergency, and one of them got lost -stain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. Of the 29 Clark medalists to date

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  At 9:50 last night, Lucas ‘14 and I were walking through Building 14 ... windows, and one of the windows was flapping around on its hinge. The woman was standing with an elderly man, and the two of them had been trying

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  By the end of my freshman year, I was convinced that I had not learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the ... part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  (I was more of a math person at that point), dragged in my physics ... , my middle school science teacher started a team at my school, and I loved it. Science bowl, for those of you who haven’t heard of it, is a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  , Randall Munroe, has something of a cult following here at MIT: we’ve hacked ... happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light ... If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  the Geek show, one I tie-dyed myself, a pair of two way radios at the ... I experienced at CPW was just amazing. How can one compare an MIT education to a drink from a firehose? There is so much more than water at MIT

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  , being at an academic institution with over 800 years of tradition gives ... matriculate as a full student for a year at Cambridge University in Cambridge, England. Read on for Amanda's experience... A Year at Cambridge A "guest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  the privilege of sharing a class with him, but we would meet at all our ... community at MIT, serving as Vice President of the African Students’ Association and the President of Sakata Afrique, an African dance team at MIT

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  remember while at MIT. For those of you who are incoming freshmen, I invite ... to start. They've got at least one whole year on you in terms of ... set at the hobby shop - as soon as we learn some of the needed acoustic

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  job at a prestigious consulting firm, a place where many of her peers at ... On Friday, I watched Everything Everywhere All At Once, a movie where a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  just plain better at math than me. I kind of feel like the dumb one who ... ). While technically you don't need any knowledge of 18.02 to understand 18.03- well, taking two math classes at once isn't so easy. I don't know how

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  girls, and at first found kinship in the physical similarities of age ... caught up with them at various events during the course of the week. One ... new freshman at a ...certain liberal arts school on the other end of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005