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• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  Necklace, a series of connected parks/green spaces designed by Frederick Law ... often. I also see a lot of dogs, and one time I even saw a doggie school ... ...which may not be a big deal to most of you, but since I was on a

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build ... ; embodiment design; and construction of a high quality functioning alpha ... presentations are held annually in before a live audience of ~1300 designers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  -dong’s film Burning, there is a concept of a “Little Hunger” and a “Great Hunger ... stop thinking about it.  In reality I think we all have a little bit of ... , which includes our literal hunger, to survive. But precisely because of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  engineering graduate school of some repute. My return flight through Chicago was cancelled due to Chicago being buried under 20 stories of golfball-sized hail ... how different the school's research philosophy was from that of MIT, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The city of Portland, Oregon was named for Portland ... interdisciplinary work prepared by some of MIT's most noted energy professors detailing the future of fossil fuels in the United States. Although renewable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  Since nearly two-thirds of the admitted students are attending Campus ... big MIT event, there's a lot of hype, rumor, and mythology surrounding it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  degrees and sunny. That basically sums up my prior experience with ... degrees Fahrenheit. Not too bad, but warmer and more humid that I’d prefer ... middle of the tropics. (OK, bad analogy, but you get the point.) I was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  of luck, I got an offer to join their team for the summer and am ... I started obsessively checking the news sometime in middle school. I ... of news and found the New York Times. I was enamored by their graphics

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule ... out another aspect of MIT or talking to the potential students. Rule #3 ... part of CPW for me was talking to other prefrosh getting to know the

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  school unless he or she has verified it with a primary source. Serving as ... 't offer only math and science. No, MIT isn't male-dominated ('09 is 47 ... on the topic of extra-curricular activities. We collectively lamented

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  2017 Design Biennial Boston. We worked primarily out of the Architecture ... router to cut out pieces of the project, and tweaked some designs in ... -month fabrication internship at Sosolimited, a design firm that came out of MIT. Even

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

  American schools.   Stephanie Tsai Class of 2013 MIT ... In the summer of 2011, MISTI sent 22 Biology students across the ... brief look at some of those internhips: Samin Houshyar Class of 2011

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  i'm currently in the midst of my second week of online school. things ... classes at my high school and the rest at a college, so i spent a maximum of three hours at school on most days. the rest of my time was spent doing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  ). This isn't really unusual, and it comes with varying degrees of annoyance ... " of intro bio- another flavor offered in the fall as 7 ... 'm happy to be getting lots and lots of sleep in my FULL SIZE (!) bed at home

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  time, I embrace ideas of participatory design and co-design where you ... One of the strange things about being 10,000 years old is that, while I've been tooling away judging teens, some of my classmates

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  already knew a good number of my classmates from high school or from the ... people In Real Life has always kind of freaked me out to some (albeit small, and rapidly decreasing) degree, and my composure will vary drastically

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  Development Training (PDT) program designed to give cadets a better view of Air ... school year, we are only exposed to a very small sliver of what the real ... Bomb Wing with a fleet of B-1B bombers as well as the 317th Airlift group

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  so I'm going to try to put a lot of effort into it. Toy Design = This ... Twice a year all of the bloggers essentially get a freebie post. We ... schedule means that school (and the accompanying work) is about to begin

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  year, she gave a series of half-hour performances for children at schools ... Schwartz / The Weekly Beat Sulinya Ramanan has not yet completed high school ... lifetime. On May 18, the Spackenkill High School senior will be honored as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  , and attended a high school of about 300 students. His graduating class consisted of about 60 people. Ever since his high school years, he’s been ... , leaving high school and entering the world of MIT. 4.0 GPA, captain of his

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016