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• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  'm writing this from a computer in EPFL's Brain Mind Institute, where I work. I ... much a lot of the stuff written in the MIT forum (and elsewhere, for that ... rampant. The clincher was when a friend sent me a link to a post about

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  -9 was CPW, followed by my first real vacation in over a year. A whole week ... by the May 1 deadline. Are you taking anyone from the waitlist this year? We won't know until a few days after May 1, when admitted students

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  -sized crowd from throughout south Florida. It was a great meeting; the questions ... Hello! This has been perhaps my longest hiatus from blogging. I ... just in time for a crazy week in the office. Now, I'm off on group travel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  people to wake up filled the stalls, and from them, a queue emerged. We ... students—from grades seven to twelve—occupied a distinct row or two. And by ... . ** On a school morning, we went from the bathrooms to the dining hall, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  the Sox won 14-3. Fenway is a pretty short walk from MIT, about 15 ... descend upon the MIT campus... CPW Events Wow, there are a lot of cool things going on. Here are a few that caught my eye in the CPW schedule

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  education to a drink from a firehose? There is so much more than water at MIT ... Dorms. Multistep retrosynthesis. A cappella music. Hacks. Everything ... Boston from my hometown. I was soaked from the weather, completely unable

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Vacation A week of total relaxation didn't stop me from thinking about MIT constantly.

  

  , but not as awesome as MIT. Consider the evidence: Sigh. But a week of total relaxation didn't stop me from thinking about MIT constantly ... it hasn't been almost a month since my last post, I've created some

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi from Cambridge

  

  coast for about a week seeing family and will be gone for the next week as ... . :-) Today, I had lunch with Daniel and Ben at Anna's Taqueria, a quick ... time to put together, and I haven't been in front of a computer much

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  food from spoiling. They learned to do research before identifying a ... Higher Ed, the best thing a student can do is whatever will advance his or ... worthwhile activities a student might do. While many MIT students have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  when I came across a list titled "Things I would do if I had more time ... time to do anything because I was [annotation note="this was a mistake, fyi"]taking 66 units[/annotation]. I had probably hoped that in a future

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates from Admissions The latest from the home office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  

  road with admissions officers from Yale and Brown meeting with students ... 'm in Moorestown, NJ, talking to students from South Jersey and Philadelphia. On our way to the venue, we saw a rainbow (just a single rainbow

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  , my age and still a few days shy from returning to his college in the US ... from one crowded platform to the next— the amount of times I had dropped ... was sweetly setting the table for a proper Spanish meal when they

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  from a while back) Oy! Welcome to the much-belated “what I’m doing this ... . Yes, I actually saw this. No, I didn't take the image from a recent ... summer... On Wednesday I caught a cab from Microsoft’s campus into Seattle

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  feel the itch to blog. So, I turned to the world’s best enabler- a coin ... ![/caption] Recently, I had a person ask me: “you know it’s bad luck to be superstitious ... yourself as well: Try and get a good grasp of what the card is saying

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  door, Bryan was like "Laura! OMG we have to take a picture now that there ... of Splash! MIT has a student group called the Educational Studies ... students teach local high schoolers a huge array of topics. Splash! is a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  apologies. =( So here it is, a long overdue update about everyone's favorite ... math majors do it. ***Story time!!!*** Once upon a time, I was really good at math. I was practically a math prodigy back in the day. Like back

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  value in a detailed account of the exodus from MIT from the perspective of ... and loss we would feel if there were to be a mass exodus from campus or ... emails from Harvard because I signed up for a library card, which I guess

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  interesting, consider looking into Alex Iosevich's "A View From the Top" which ... irks me about a proof. I can write it down from start to finish. Examine ... maybe I will later this month/semester we will see). But this is a post

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick hello from Albuquerque I'm in New Mexico for ISEF.

  

  A quick shout out from Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I am attending ... talked of making a "left turn at Albuquerque") (No sign of the High School ... check out the projects, and finally a reception (now with fabulous prizes

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

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  and Finalists will also receive a congratulatory letter from Susan ... inspire students towards a lifelong devotion to science, technology, and engineering. FIRST works something like this: every year, in January, a star

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010