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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  turn in the final paper or project, and/or was absent during the last two ... undergraduate education in the case of an undergraduate student or by the dean for graduate education in the case of a graduate student. The faculty member in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  gone and the temperature's still in the thirties, and the wet gray ... see some glamorous woman in a beautiful coat leaving the List Visual ... day soon get your art on again. (Maybe when you graduate, the cynic in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  ’t that bad, but I’ve never been in a severe snowstorm in such a big city ... , especially when flurries swirl around lamplights in the purple evening sky, which never gets quite dark enough in the winter time. The snow reflects

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  that in mind, I would like to impart some advice regarding the ... experience still smoulders in the mind. Here goes: Breathe. Don’t Procrastinate. Enjoy.You are among the oldest generation of students in your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  So here we are. I'm sitting in the AeroAstro Gelb Lab ... . In about a week, I'll be home in California again--in three, I'll be working an internship in Seattle. It hasn't exactly settled in yet that I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in ... forecasted heavy rain and a thunderstorm starting around noon, in which case ... ) for three laps around the course in as short a time as possible. We knew

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

    Christina T., Me, Erica D., and Jen L. representing MIT in Florence!   So I don't know if you could tell, but I was teaching in Italy over IAP. In October, I applied to MIT's Global Teaching Labs

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  specializes in projects that focus on interfaces, interactions, and ... with the Men In Black Headquarters, except without aliens (for now ... class (MAS.110) or for just getting "lost" in the many halls of the labs

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  This weekend marks the notable milestone where, for the first time in ... . I'm currently working in the Space Systems Laboratory helping to ... to develop and test these sorts of things in an environment where if

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  and international students.   It’s mid-October in Cambridge ... , and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The ... arriving in our inboxes recently. How should my teachers prepare and submit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  for the inevitable punch line. In which case I’d happily comply and say ... awkwardness, but still, to everyone’s chagrin, logically sound in a roundabout ... short) that was held Sunday night in Kresge auditorium was essentially one

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  There comes a time in everyone's MIT experience, from the application ... moment occurs as soon as you arrive on campus. Or in the middle of your ... once. I had this moment most recently while sitting in my 18

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  's my blog and I get to put words in your mouth if I want. That's a good ... advisor)'s office on Tuesday in search for the answers to life, the universe ... minutes or so, I was convinced that he not only is the Best Advisor In the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  comes to a close culminating in graduation and Tech Reunions on our campus ... their families in attendance and ended with the final celebration of MIT ... that I would see them in five years when they would all come back to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  and the sun’s rays streaked through a break in the clouds as if the ... peace in my cozy little hospital room. I drifted into a deep sleep. I startled awake in a sweat, almost screaming. Pain raced through my abdomen

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  feeling rising in my mind that I've forgotten how to put in words. Fu ... 'm in it. And as the Systems Integrator for my team section (Pink A) , more often than not I am in it deep. The class runs at a breakneck pace

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  put "vacation" in quotations not because it wasn't wonderful - it was ... certainly not forgotten. I've got a blog post in the works about how to write ... so this subject is both fresh in my mind and timely for yours as the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  sciences department in between. But course 17 (Political Science), though seemingly only a science in a purely semantical sense, is a hidden gem here at the Institute. More importantly, in ways, it's a bit of an art, too

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Happy Labor Day Weekend y'all! I'm up north in my ancestral woods of ... something truly serendipitous. Back in July, when I created the 2010 Blogger ... awake one morning to find the zombie apocalypse hath begun. You are in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  reading if you will. Remember Tim's promise. Best of luck in the weeks ... kick in. Get off the blogs and let out a few tears. Then watch some ... chain that's pretty prevalent in the US - fun fact: it contains 14

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010