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• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  our utilities get to us—in fact, I can say with certainty that I know ... affects literally human being in the whole world. Period. I can use the ... inspired to write this post by a tumblr question I received while in Ethiopia

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  I can’t wait for what the next four years has in store :D ... were greeted with was an absolute flood of more acronyms. In fact, I think I’ve seen more acronyms in the past few weeks than in my entire life

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  . In celebration of Blog Action Day, I asked him if he had any ... and spends three weeks in a village in a developing country. I will be ... throughout the developing world. D-Lab is unlike any other I've taken. In most

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  ="ironically, also something that I can't know for sure until I spend some time in grad ... interview process, but I can't help but think they inform their decision in a ... little girl. In elementary school, I wanted to be an artist, the kind that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  , writing the lyrics, buying the green screen, and directing/starring in the ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCRwr-TnJeQ All right. I guess we can talk ... secret team is infinite. I said that because at any point, I can reach out

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Meeting FAQ The answers to the FAQs at our Central Meetings.

  

  you in Southern California, I pose this question to you: Can you ... I'm in Southern California now, preparing for the following Central ... statistics? Is it easier to get in if I apply early? Last year, early action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  I've been working with Daniel on advising a group of freshmen this year, and in exchange, I get to tag along on group outings. On Friday, ten of us went for dinner, dessert, and an off-Broadway show in downtown

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  a UROP in their lab, or anything else. This is how Melis and I got an ... that. Trying to develop your own personal website can be a great ... I didn't mean to write this entry. I sat down to write about some

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  ) * Free Man in Paris (Joni Mitchell) * You Can't Always Get What You Want ... Silence" * Nina Simone - "I Shall be Released" * Jimmy Cliff - "You Can Get ... Broadcasting System''), but things changed in the late 1970s: Ted Turner, who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP programs in Madrid. I enrolled in 21L.590 Global Literature (although on ... taken Spanish Conversation and Composition in the fall semester, I thought

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• 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.

  

  . Almost all of my grades are in and I'm also happy to report that I did much ... if I wanted to get dressed up or not, and finally gave in to the ... I say I really have no idea. In another example of Secret Santa

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  (when did that happen?!), so we frosh can finally declare a major. I ... pretty set on what my major for a while now (in fact, I specifically ... tours of some labs. As I'm a nerd for everything neuroscience, can you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  If you can't tell from the title, I love scrolling through Wikipedia ... useless trivia, then yes, you can. I go nuts over this site. [caption id ... I randomly dropped a piece of trivia onto you. My roommates can attest

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  study is slowly but surely slipping away. I can't wait until all 1100+ of ... , have them ready! I was lucky last year in that my host was someone I ... the events I wanted to attend at last year's CPW by ranking them in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  returns come in. I had many election-watching options to choose from ... , I hopped in a Zipcar and went out to the suburbs to a party at the ... in between the channel-flipping. I promised that in this entry, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  his arms around me in a hug. And I said, "aww, Kriff...I can't crush ... a lot of Star Wars books. I wore a fanny pack in the front with extra ... Physics of Baseball. Also, I went to nerd camp. In 1998, when I was about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  as the club. I can see 50 cent or Alisha Keys using that floor in a new ... . Considering your work course load and everything else you do at MIT. In short I ... : Floor in Popular Science? Hi – I’m an editor at Popular Science and I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  , because in the end, food is great. I like food, you like food. So let’s get ... ’re probably thinking, “Cooking? I’ve never cooked a day in my life! I could burn ... in the kitchen, and it tasted like I had just paid 15 bucks for it

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  (Course 18). I’ve sat transfixed in random places in the hallway many times ... Institute in this post, and will return to the topic in more detail soon. I ... Institute has far exceeded my expectations for social involvement, and in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to SanLuisObispo.com. You can read the story yourself here, but I'll pull out some choice ... years in admissions, I've seen students take some time before starting MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005