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• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  at the ripe age of twenty-one i am beginning to feel my body weaken ... teenager i could walk in shorts in 40 degree (fahrenheit) weather without any issue, whereas currently the weather in boston is around 50 degrees and i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  make a difference." One of the great things about being at one of the top universities in the world is being right next to another one of the ... , the conference’s content focused on the untold truths of Social

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  York City during IAP 2020, and it immediately went to the top of my ... I haven’t been doing a great job of blogging this semester for a variety of reasons (grad school is busy, life is hard, writing isn't my

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  from the New York Times, so I'm basically a crucial pillar of American ... of us speculated back and forth -- would we know the person already ... thought taking a picture of the snack table would make me look like a rube

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  't comparing how foriegn it felt from my hometown in long island, new york, but ... replaced the definition of 'home' in my subconcious. i'm in a completely ... about 6.033, being with a community of friends i lived with and saw daily

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  I was born in the province of Sichuan and speak the Sichuan dialect. I imagine it as the equivalent of a southern hill-billy drawl ... -the-go young professional from the Northeast. However, in any kind of a tight

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  of the expanding universe is revealed through cataloging Right: to the ... documentation more than a month ago. There are a bunch of long, thoughtful, well ... best of the blogs. As they used to tell us in grad school, done is better

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  International University who was the head of a new VR lab there, telling us that ... Computer Graphics Research at University of Miami Learning from Sophomore ... professors from University of Miami, and got a positive response back from one

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  'm unsure whether this is a symptom of the pandemic or a symptom of the dorm ... and devoid of art and light. I hate it. Perhaps hate is too strong a word and some of these unfavorable conditions should be attributed to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Close up shot of Pluto. (Image Credit: NASA) On Jan 19, 2006, the New ... made its closest approach to Pluto. It sent back a preliminary photo of ... pick out details on Pluto as small as the ponds in New York City

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  University. In 1999, she received the National Academy of Sciences Troland ... their talks, I'll feature a mini-interview with each of them. Prof. Nancy Kanwisher received her Bachelor Of Science in Course 7 (Biology) from MIT in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  the annual conference of the New England Association for College Admission Counseling (NEACAC), hosted by Boston's Northeastern University. Hundreds of guidance counselors and admissions officers from across the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  My last post was on my gap year, which was wild, full of writing, and very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... someone will feel inspired, and we can dream of what we'll be doing when the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  to this. Example Question Q: Estimate the number of taxis in New York. A: Do you mean all of New York or do you mean New York City? (New York ... equation I will be working with is: number of taxis in New York City

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  University of Ghana’s Office of Research Innovation and Development (ORID ... Mr. Dogoe to reach out to a faculty member at the University of Ghana ... Emmanuel A. ‘18 is a member of my own class year (as is Pelkins A ‘18

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

  Collections Simple

  

  synopsis of everything I haven't blogged about. I spent a week in New York ... things I have been doing both inside and outside the confines of MIT. I ... I once did. I don't think as deeply about the opinions of the people

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  , particularly one with a large population of graduate students, means that ... as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary ... common data set, over 60% of the classes at MIT have 19 people or fewer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  of the votes from making it into the poll. The idea of outing the main culprit was briefly considered (a 5'8", 115-lb. freshman from New York -- it ... on the updated version of his hack site, "only keep one instance of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  chances of ever entering an American university, and assisted an elderly man ... language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is ... culture, a sense of history and background that I simply did not possess or

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

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  of Admissions at MIT, wrote a short book called College Admissions and the Public Interest. It's a longstanding handbook of the admissions profession, and one of those texts that reads basically as true today as it did

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018