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• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  .org better. New bloggers! In addition to our new website, I also want to ... . She would like you to know that ants have a designated graveyard area in ... I hope you like what we've done with the place. Seven years ago, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  ="obviously class numbers are not in the ten hundred most used words, but I'm leaving ... After three and a half years of being at this school, I've taken quite a few classes. What have I even learned from them? I'm bad at

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  I participated in the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program ... which is in one of the entries (would any MacGregorites care to clarify ... attend a one-week session where we work in small groups, along with a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  two women conversing in Spanish. And I generally throw in a bit of Tamil ... With less than two months left till my MCAT, I've started frequenting ... /bio/chem till my brain feels like it's dying. And then I go to lab and do things

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  and 8, of Simmons): "I'll be UROPing in Prof. Field's lab (in the ... skills as well. In August, I'm going to the ACS meeting in Philadelphia as ... to write code in jeans and a T-shirt on Wall Street. I am writing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  Making Caring Common report was released in 2016, I wrote that an important ... , especially in times like these. I'm writing today to reaffirm what Chris said ... worry about how things will look to us.   In the last few weeks, I have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  about the show in yesterday's New York Times, I learned something I didn ... . She sounds like someone who would be interesting to meet... I'll have to look her up the next time I'm in Southern California. Anyway, the first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  people i know; that they have used up weeks in the service of their ... administrators would, in the service of their students, hold themselves more ... undergraduates, announcing and explaining those decisions. i won't bother

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  down, fats and sugar, you would expect it to be in high levels in obese ... maintaining the trails there, so I can imagine that a trip there would be quite the treat! In his free time (yes he has free time, who would have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little ... weekend, but as long as you understand that coming in to the weekend, I ... it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  for another, I was actually interested in what they had to say. It ... scary but your applications are in the best hands possible, believe me. I ... 'm not sure what I can say in order to make you believe it more, other than

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  it would have been more effective if it had been, I don't know, funny ... slight rivalry between Harvard and MIT. Whenever I'm talking to prospectives or tourists, I explain that the rivalry is kind of a one way rivalry

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  neat historical sites in Boston. I signed up for this FPOP because I ... Orientation are quite similar. In fact, the reasons I admire the Founding ... I got my first taste of MIT even before orientation, when I showed up

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  I love a good theme. I make a big deal over birthdays in my family ... backs of donkeys in the developing world, said, “The reason I love working ... and make it work in the world. " Now that’s a theme I can really stand

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Sometimes we have fun Pictures, pictures, pictures

  

  about last semester, but I didn't have the time. I think it would be kinda ... Winter break is finally over and I'm back at MIT. As much as most ... , maybe I just miss the freedom that comes with being away from home, but I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  -da! (Oh, all photos in this entry are courtesy of my Mac's webcam since I ... Well, my two weeks of no IAP agenda have come to a close and I ... machinery in the main MechE shop, the Pappalardo lab. Inside are all sorts of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  comprehensive and tested action plans in place, which they would implement in the ... All of us here are quite saddened by the shooting at Virginia Tech. I ... afternoon, Wednesday, April 18, at 4:00 p.m. in the Chapel. We anticipate that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  , and I have accomplished more than the average MIT student does in an ... across the Harvard Bridge, and I sat down in front of the international ... squeezed in an hour-long workout. With the rest of my day, I will work in my

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  At CPW 2011, I had, hands down, the best ribs I've ever had in my ... ribs I'd ever had in my life. My hunger tore through me. The world went ... , shoving it in my pocket, so I couldn't be identified while I was Food

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  dozen times in several disorienting patterns of color.  As I wander ... than usual. I am holding pallets of bright green, yellow, and purple paint with five other girls in my sorority. Further down the bridge is a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023