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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  , building a robot. I was in the middle of “freshman orientation week” at ... here is more expensive. I can take a day trip to New York City for the ... mechanical and ocean engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  (This entry courtesy of the free wireless internet at the Hotel ... -five biology programs, and my training will be excellent at all of them; what I ... of glad I'm interviewing for graduate programs this year while writing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  . But the ensuing string of comments didn’t agree with me at all. Her own ... . But Jessica Bruder, writing in the New York Times in a recent Sunday ... facebook and my two teenagers, I’d be hopelessly inept at water cooler

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  of being in a fraternity is visiting chapters at other universities ... two weeks of travelling, we are finally at my home stop, New Jersey. The ... chapter of the University of Washington, nicknamed "Phi Pools". One of our

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  holiday weekend in New York with some friends. I acquired a real curio of a ... championships, of all that stuff that you fell back on at home when you needed a ... The little that is completed vanishes from the sight of one who looks

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  learn, good example of what not to do), 温故知新 onkochishin (developing new ideas based on study of the past), 疑心暗鬼 gishinanki ('jumping at shadows ... [annotation note="i'm going on an alarming number of flights this

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... the book launch, my dad and I stayed in New York for a few days, and I ... New Yorkers are…well, probably deserving of an occasional punch or two

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  how Ryan describes TOFU: TOFU is a project to explore new ways of ... First of all, apologies for the radio silence. I've been sequestered ... awesomeness that is all of you, I wanted to share this different awesome thing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  culture at MIT. MIT has a lot of students who are creative, self ... architecture, people, and events representative of life at MIT.   The ... rigorous research facility and one of the best universities in the world, but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  the great style and culture I see at MIT. Did any of you find other ... probably would have ended up at Case Western Reserve University. Stevens Institute of Technology is another good technology school in Hoboken, New

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  ; Amy Finkelstein, also of MIT, who does health economics; and University ... lengths about the strength of our economics department. Back to CPW… at the ... your American Cancer Society. During the event, teams of people gather at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at ... takes you to an article from New York Times magazine by Daniel Kahneman ... with the judgments of their commanders at the officer-training school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  , New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Providence -- finally, the Boston ... arriving in New House, I passed out. Then it was Sunday. I got up at noon ... of boxes on top of my chest of drawers, and two full suitcases + three

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  has given rise to a new universe of possibilities for uses of the ... at MIT, centered at the Mediated Matter group in the Media Lab but ... a way to 3D print glass. I'd actually seen some objects on display at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  , we’ve both always gotten new agendas at the beginning of each school ... our entire lives (at least during the semester). Lots of people use ... into the swing of the semester, I find myself needing to look at my

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  friend. Is it emo enough? Spotted at the Boston Museum of Science: one ... over the Admissions page with my face. At the 2018 Festival of Learning ... 's just a sample from one of my four years at the Institute. There

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  or 5 study halls a day, they could get straight As and be at the top of ... a knower of MIT-related things, I have been asked many times how ... to put the anxiety of prospective students to rest; knowing you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  a Youth Lobby Day at the Massachusetts State House. Three of us will ... are in most contexts taboo. The New York Times once hailed it as ... Planned Parenthood Youth Advocates Today at the Planned Parenthood

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that ... .409 (which I highly recommend by the way). Another piece of universal advice ... 2pm. You might be wondering at the moral of this story. Is it grades

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  after that weekend, none of which i had started at the time. i did manage ... feel like shots at the moon! none of this ambition existed in the first ... 't because i'm doing anything wrong. at once, i feel that nothing is new under

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020