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• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  'm trying to put off getting to the point of this entry? Anyway, some time before finals I went to see The Arcade Fire perform at the Orpheum in ... had to look up Laika on Wikipedia because I wasn't even a fetus in 1957

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  Earth. To someone standing on Earth, the Moon would cover the Sun. In a ... ; Michael C. '16 was also in Wyoming, setting up his professional camera to ... animals might even get confused and you could hear crickets chirping or

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  ’t really know what to do when they were hard. MIT taught me in one semester ... are, to understand the problems that you don’t get the first or second ... intimidated by going to office hours, perhaps in part out of pride, for not

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  and he kept trying to get us to play road games and sings songs about ... getting there, that's for sure. It was all in good fun! At least there ... to the trail we needed to follow to get to Nancy Cascades. We made

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  to the liquor store across the street. I'm in Greenwich Village. I ... learning." "Get a PhD" in your field--even if you're not literally getting ... crosswalk conversations ("...host a wine party..." "No way!") waft up to where

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  somehow made it thru rush-hour T-traffic to get to the airport just — literally just — in time for my flight to Denver and 2 hour-long midnight uber ... the airport and time to head back home. I haven't been back in a year

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  EA Blogger Application Decisions The results are in.

  

  what you actually came here to get: the results of the EA round. For a ... I just want to say on behalf of the committee that we are truly ... enthusiasm is a testament to the success of this project, and Admissions

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  Part One: Getting people together. Abstract. In our investigation of ... coordinates and a date. The coordinates, it turns out, pointed to a park here in ... believe in the same things you do and sometimes it takes a little push to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Recap: wearables, games, and other SUPER products

  

  process: the build challenge from early in the class to get students accustomed to collaborating in order to build things that solve problems ... timestamp links to skip ahead to that point in the video: Silver team: fire

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  students we could take at this time, and which students to admit. I sat in ... extremely difficult. In the end, we were very happy to be able to admit these students from the waitlist -- in an email to the office, Stu wrote, "These

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  looking to get in on the ground floor of new initiatives, but only when I ... absolutely exhausted one evening, getting to bed early for the first time in ... , but no way to develop it; the other with no background in that idea, but

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  Honors Program in the mailbox across from WILG. So begins my journey to ... program I am applying to is called “Cities in the 21st Century”, which looks ... that affect cities. I had always expected to study abroad in college

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  . You may also want to keep us up-to-date with any news in your life. This ... in, we will not be able to tell you "the reason" why you were deferred ... ) would love to have in their student body. Honestly. A frequent line to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  : Snively, Since you are used to getting up early now, go out to the Boston ... in the morning is amazing. Then go to Bunker Hill and climb the stairs ... have been a waste of the energy required to get to the top of the hill

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

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  can press hope to get to university in U.S.The list you have supplied ... Here are the answers to the questions you've left in the comments of ... , the depth and breadth of ECs varies from school to school in the same

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol Think Pistols Are Cool? Wait Till You Meet Mike Conti

  

  First thing I want to do is apologize for not blogging in a while ... everything I learned from it in a bit. For now I want to start a series a blogs ... strong on my quest to get the Pirate's License. While I came for the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  you is to get in and then receive your award.']clearly communicable ... have a spirit summons (mimic tear?) to assist me in various challenges as ... are the latest in a long history of efforts by the Institute to free up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  to Hell, Hadestown in a song that introduces the cast of characters ... . but then covid happened and we never got to put it on in full, and in the post-college world, i’d accepted that i’d never get a chance to act

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  that I can't resist sharing. If you decide to get up and practice ... What is the particle in a box model? How to make ice cream at home ... parasites which could live in your eye Commensalism and you How to avoid being

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  ridiculous-looking formula sheets to show you. In the book The Idea Factory by ... , "Cool, you guys actually get to use index cards and reference sheets. But ... , at least.) So, yes, textbooks help, but no, you're not going to get an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005