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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  a two-hour journey up to an alumni’s home in Rye, NY for another ... another of my MIT friends in the city for the week, sat in on their women ... ’s Soul Food*, for lunch. Later, I met up with a couple friends in Union

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  weekend has in store for that set of guests. But before I do that here are ... check in occasionally so I'd suggest you pick an event where you can meet ... Drop-In After the closing variety show join us “Under the Great Dome" for

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  heavier. I spent yesterday in a newsroom, with the weight and force of recent murders in Minneapolis, Baton Rouge, and Dallas rushing in torrents. I spent the day scanning news sources for updates, any updates, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  started looking around for things to stir thoughts in my head, a stimulus of ... application in Freshman Spring. I was in Simmons for a few weeks, thought it was ... was an orientation leader for Black Flag right before the semester

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  /employment plans, or just life in general. Sometimes you have to make an appointment ... with my biology advisor, since I worked in his lab for three years and ... for health reasons -- Adam's going down to Georgia in a few weeks to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  apply to be an admissions blogger next year? Contact us in August and let ... been piling up in my inbox... Where the heck have you been?!? April 6-9 was CPW, followed by my first real vacation in over a year. A whole week

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  Pennsylvania and sells at around an 800% markup in the Los Angeles Farmers ... in Harrisburg, PA and I thought I'd spend it posting old photos on this ... the local 7-11, well, the local one that wasn't shut down last month for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let the Rush Begin On Greek Life at MIT.

  

  freshmen to register for recruitment in the case of Panhel. Waiting for the ... . At the close of rush, I will be vacationing in an undisclosed location ... came to MIT for CPW, I didn't really understand what fraternities were

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  before dead week is pretty stressful, as every class tries to cram in that ... from somewhere. It came from people publishing their original research in ... opportunity to put some of your thoughts in a textbook. I've had the distinct

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  come late for it? as in late friday night, all of sat and leave sunday ... only admit freshmen to begin in the fall semester. We admit transfers for ... remember the applications of rejectecd applicants for a subsequent year? In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  tonight's festivities. I will probably spice this horrible idea for an entry ... to sleep. For those playing along at home, here is Pset 8 in all its ... the background of the picture. In this case, an old, slightly discolored

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  'll talk about what MIT looks for in an interview and give you some advice ... -to-face and to set up a time for their interview. We will always finish with an ... . This year, the first meetings are in the northeast: Massachusetts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  MIT freshmen for them to answer in a single semester: “How would you ... , you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... as life as a biological process or an experience. This is the example

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  himself) back in Ohio to fend for themselves. Perhaps they will have to hunt ... elementary/middle school, I would take a book, sit in an unoccupied section ... dorm review session for Macgregor kids in intro biology. Mmmm MIT life

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  the equipment in this photo is for 2.678, including the soldering iron ... can be used as an oscilloscope and waveform generator (in the pink box ... photo, in the light blue box, is my DemoSat for 16.851. The DemoSat is a

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  , and seared meat, but in this case is responsible for huge, gummy brown ... in an MIT laboratory. Nobody knows how it was even physically ... underwater flame spallation rock drilling for applications in harnessing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  . For now, I’m struggling to coordinate communications between people in ... prepare for—I’ve talked to alums who have been in the bubble for 30 years, and I, too, will likely retreat to the bubble in the fall. For now, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  I wanted to have a bike for when I came to campus in the fall. I didn ... surprisre: he bought an app, on the spot, that would use the iPod's built-in accelerometer as a surface level for the table. As much as I am *not* an Apple fan

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  German) first. The exhibit is in a completely dark room except for the ... except for one– glow in a certain sequence: the singular purple bulb ... an art show that Hans Haacke held at MIT in 1967. To quote the little

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  Chorus performed an arrangement of Clara Schumann's "Liebst du um Schönheit" for ... for the writing major. In many ways, I am living a double life, taking ... contemporary art to hang up in their room for a year. Acapella groups roam the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022