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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  actually so artsy! I had the notion of MIT being a hardcore tech institute ... about the MIT THINK Scholars Program, which I had the privilege of taking part of during my junior year of high school. Now as a college freshman

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  that I wanted to go MIT even over the other prestigious institutions I ... I was with the better half of my umbrella that tried to fly away on a quest to Random Hall, where the was word of Truffle-making. When I finally

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  discussion of one of the puzzles. In about a month all of the puzzles will be ... sorts of time consuming stuff). So, without further delay -- Puzzle ... for us to solve. When a new puzzle was uploaded, a group of people

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever ... again, I would spend hours locked away in a corner of the library staring at my laptop screen, scrolling through pages and pages of Janice Smith

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  ’s perhaps my favorite aspect of the Institute—the chance to grow in a tight ... “intense” dorm of people with no shoes and dyed hair. But, not everyone who ... some of the responses below in full (with only minor edits). I hope this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  significant is this number? Does a ratio of 5:1 mean a lot when you can have a freshman lecture size of 400? One of the quintessential features of American ... imagined college in high school, I imagined being in one of these huge halls

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to have some sort of structure, but it's become a bit of a brain dump of ... horizon, but the past few days have been when a lot of project classes begin

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  at the forces affecting the development of cities around the world. If accepted, I will be travelling with a group of about 30 students to Detroit ... gain a better understanding of the social, political and economic systems

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  I have enough of a questions backlog now that I think it's worth ... little groups of freshmen led by an upperclassman (all incoming frosh are ... midway and the athletics midway, where you can visit booths of different

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  A brief happy post amidst the chaos and confusion of existence: Hi ... going on with me and my life. For those of you who don't know, I just ... with all of my family members and spend time with them, as this summer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  Brown and Yale through the mountain states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado ... Posner of Yale. Bowen is an earnest, funny fellow who went to Penn, taught ... our rental car) and the Big Sky State Games, the high school olympics of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  going to the end of this block." MAN: "It's actually free!" ME: "No ... with strangers. But as the man sped off in search of another victim, I noticed that the taxi was actually offering free rides to anybody who joined

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  advantage of the free resources that the GECD offers beyond résumés, like mock ... It totally hit me today when I stumbled upon a copy of the Tech and ... schedule, and you never really are able to stay on top of everything. The

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  beautiful study room in the fifth floor of the student center that was ... powder.) (The great thing about cooking in college is that regardless of ... around to eat it. Never underestimate the stomachs of hungry college kids

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  past few weeks have been like, so some of these answers are super late ... Kuwait, is there any possibility of receiving the Admissions decision ... ." ------------------------------------- Shikhar wrote: "Should I put down that I have been member for four years of

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  mildly. I’m overwhelmingly obsessed with the internet. I think a lot of it ... internet. Things changed when I got to MIT. Instead of being plugged into the ... . The Internet became my playground, providing me with an endless array of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  yeah, I haven't written a blog in too long anyways, so I owe all of you ... kidding. My research deals with the characterization of a novel gene in the aging pathway of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (a roundworm that is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  wasn't planned, especially because I still have six hours of exams to ... it's stayed that way for such a while now is a combination of a lot of things. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I filled up my account to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  currently I'm working at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. As many of you ... /c) airplanes, both of my UROPs center around the development of unmanned aerial ... picture of me taken on the day my parents brought me home from the hospital

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  because one of them is a 3 unit class, meaning it really doesn't take up that much of my time! My classes: 8.021 - Physics E&M; I ... recover from that. Or there was a very slight chance of it, but I just had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020