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• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  and tweet at least five times a day to project some kind of image. I ... . Her parents want her to go abroad to the University of Paris. She’s not ... ’s a lot of opportunity at MIT to open up and explore things you haven

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  helped form the foundation of new, healthier habits. Waking up at the same ... you but kind of hard to start doing. At the beginning of the summer, I ... attempted to start writing a novel at the beginning of the summer, before

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  continued schooling at a high school or university other than MIT). Come up ... into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  discussion. And at the Expo booth, he offered me to try three of the labs! I ... . This post is just a fraction of the fascinating information I absorbed at ... compilation of initiatives to transform teaching and learning at MIT. And if you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  to hold so much life at once. It can be the kind of quiet that invites ... with us at lunch, how Deans of DSL and MIT psychiatrists shed their roles ... This week, I spent four days and three night at the Salvation Army

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  Library in New York, and then brings thousands of sketchbooks to six other ... decided a trip northbound through upstate New York to Niagara Falls and into ... of faces and experiences makes it all worthwhile. * Came home to find

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  of the New Yorker. I landed in LAX around 11:30AM PT and picked up my ... ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;The next morning I woke up at 6AM and began a full day of school visits. How ... students to take many of their upper level courses at a local community

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  . 71. At the same time that I applaud Tokyo for its number of public ... big university in Tokyo that's pretty famous for taking a lot of foreign ... of study in that university (this test is usually later, in February or

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  Photographic Resource Center (PRC) at Boston University. This is *the* place for ... Project Lab. From 1965, Minor White (a close friend of Ansel Adams) taught at MIT’s Visual Arts Program until his death in 1976. White was

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  're really good at shooting (we've won the national championship in pistol 2 of ... sons Hank and Hal Steinbrenner, has owned the New York Yankees since 1973 ... thought I'd take a look back at MIT athletes who have participated in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  college. I happen to fit both of those descriptions, so I (who happened to be in New York with high school friends for the weekend; more on this ... 'm a finalist. A lot of the time I'm not very serious - but I'm serious

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  University in 2000 as a project of Hillel at Stanford; since then, it has ... esteem,” he adds. I am so excited to be a part of this new program at MIT ... opportunity to just have fun. Students at MIT have launched Camp Kesem, or Camp

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  wonderful exchange student from the University of Cambridge, Rob. An ... whole year of change and new experiences. As someone who averages 15 ... always there to clear up our many, many, misconceptions of all things

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Business As Usual

  

  sign he made (piece of glass cut and etched with some waterjet machine at ... Friday at East Campus, one of the ten floors hosts a food event in the dorm ... It's been business as usual for me here at MIT, following the routine

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  exactly what happened in the first moments of the universe. And word on the ... of your time at MIT, and for working towards completion of your Physics ... at the idea of having to discuss that academic disaster with the recent

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  's view of New York: they forget the rest of the country. And while you don ... of New York City). Finally! Listen to this fascinating Podcast of Paul ... one morning - I'm still constantly awed at how beautiful the change of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  . Bummer. Musical suggestions that I dug out of my old/new Spotify playlists ... I can’t speak for the accessibility of research positions at other ... a new semester of classes to begin. I have yet to meet the new

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  on in the world, only able to scan the New York Times every couple of ... . It looks at all forms of transport: cars, transit, bikes and ... new things so far this summer, at work as well as outside. I’m looking

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  University of Technology’s car can corner at 3 G’s of acceleration. There ... five different universities. We saw some of the best student ... brakes. The University of Stuttgart team that won the electric competition

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  First time in a foreign country - the pace at which new things are thrown at you is beyond words. Thoughtful reflections connecting all these ... settled in the dorms of Jeju National University. Then we went outside

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012