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• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I ... the school year has progressed, I've sort of come to the conclusion that ... overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  sadly still 5'2". That's 157 cm, for the 95.7% of humans who don't reside ... ripening. The sky is full-bellied with sunshine. Still, we're on the verge of ... again. Of course, this is only one approach to the essays. The most

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  responding to various offerings of the universe made in these media. Twitter ... 's perception of science is changing. I was wondering if you could spend a few minutes talking about how scientists' perception of outreach is changing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  from my freshman year. It was early December, 2011: the flame wars of dining-discuss@ were still fresh in the minds of undergraduates[1], yolo ... the foundation of MIT's online education efforts, was still a couple

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  If you're looking for an in-depth view of Career Fair and all the vast opportunities that it offers MIT students, then you're in the wrong ... of things like "can eat five plates of food at dinner",* "can make

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT EECS students travel the world

  

  MISTI's eleven country programs offer internships in every MIT field (Physics, Mathematics, Urban Studies, etc). One of the most popular fields among our students, however, is Computer Science. In the summer of

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  a good sense of this.  There are some things that are intentional ... ,  in favor of blank pages that forced them to create their own images without the constraints of pre-drawn lines to color inside of.  There are

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• 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 / 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 / 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 / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  of technology without considering the ethical consequences of their ... gets hurt. Along the same lines, as consumers of technology we should be ... more context (the "real" story, if you will). One of our close friends

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• 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