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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  meantime, I'm out enjoying all that Oregon has to offer in the way of ... . As it turns out, this semester was.....well....I learned a lot of "extracurricular lessons". We'll put it like that. But an unintended side effect of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some things to do now if you were admitted to the MIT Class of 2014.

  

  to the MIT Class of 2014!), that you're declining our offer of ... Hello MIT Class of 2014! Here are some things that admitted students ... MyMIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  alone love, and Jhumpa Lahiri is one of them. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of the books Interpreter of Maladies (1999) and The Namesake (2003 ... Rhode Island, Lahiri spent some of her childhood in Boston and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  of image concerning my life at MIT: While true some of the time, I'd say that just as much of my time is spent feeling like this: ^^This ... all sorts of stuff happens, yes. These things are all awesome, but they

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  The Maslab 2007 competition (the culmination of the class for which I ... proudly sent out some photos of their robot without giving any context for ... all-nighters or close to it. I remember what that sort of thing was like

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  For those of you who commented in the last post or emailed me, thank ... of 175 juniors who are doing a college tour of New England. It was fun ... probably late October. Luckily, I've done so many of them, I can talk about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  Mira Nair came to speak last year and kind of offered my friend a role in ... Your Mystery Hunt puzzle of the day: Dead and Gone I finished up ... film, Monkey Dance, is a documentary about the lives of three Cambodian

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  - that I'll get faster with experience. I wish Matt would offer a seminar ... that it's taken me an hour to summarize and pull out all of the meaningful stuff in 10 minutes. Plus he can do it in the middle of the Diesel

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  our last problem set of the year. I laughed, and felt my heart sink as I ... about what I am capable of. I pre-registered for six classes at the beginning of this semester. There was a CI-H, which I needed to take, but it

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post was a lot of feelings, but there's a lot of feelings still. too many feelings. i spent the entirety of my saturday afternoon psetting for only

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  lol). This blog post is about my journey into the art of glass ... ), because its pretty difficult to make anything out of glass if you don’t know how to obtain any glass. The furnace is kept at around 2,000 degrees

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  wind up staying overnight in a terminal, or sleeping in the trunk of my car trapped on the road in 8 degree weather because there's 4 inches of ... , whose only concept of the outdoors is an item that is outside the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  Here are a couple of other good questions that I have been asked by ... ...Referring to the application fee:“Full name of the applicant must be on the money ... . _________________________________ Q: I have a question about one of the short answer questions. There is

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  and that vibrational degree of freedom, and I was not going to be told ... DID YOU KNOW? Mary Tyler Moore sent a signed copy of the single ... . It's about that time of season when MIT students buckle down, chain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  in Paris, France working at the Observatory of Paris. Roughly 1/3 of ... the rotation of the Earth, Le Verrier worked to discover Neptune, Cassini created a map of the moon that was the best available until

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  This summer, I was enrolled in one of the five summer@future classes being offered for MIT students (with the snazzy bonus of summer housing ... Learning Materials for Biology aka. THANK YOU MIT FOR OFFERING A CLASS (even

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  contradicts the previous one. I'm sick of being offered a limited-offer ... of my airline, or as high up as possible. My Good Sir, Have you ever ... back to your interviews and repeat, "We need to take excellent care of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  organization offered a snapshot of their own, unique chapters below. For those ... I am sure that many of you have read blogs about Greek life from some of our current all-star bloggers like Paul or even some of the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  this week and she wanted it to be posted in honor of the November Rule ... . tl;dr MIT has a surprising amount of options for taking care of your sexual health and contraception, most of which are free! Sexual Health at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  degrees!!!   (the real MVP of overlapping interests/fandoms/etc. is ... . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this corner of the Internet, to sum up all my feelings from the past four years

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • July 16, 2016