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• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  has grown into a gem that features the best guest speakers in the field, interactive labs (including navigating campus in a wheelchair), and lots of ... nuanced problem. below is a demonstration of how he currently maneuvers his

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  tournament T-shirts is marginal), have cut my hair shorter than it’s been in a ... , seen, or experienced before. I got a new job, worked part time in a ... obvious, it marked a shift in my paradigm and a small but significant change

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  still covering old material, and there are no exams in sight. Perhaps a ... fully immersed in a cloud of good old fashioned cold symptoms and I wanted nothing more than to sleep in a swathe of extra-soft blankets. So I did

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  to take advantage of the fact that New York is a cheap bus ride away ... is based on Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir (subtitled A Family ... Becoming the Next Bill Nye (I wrote about it in more detail in a post last

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is ... can get all hung up in a prickle-ly perch. And your gang will fly on. You'll be left in a Lurch. You'll come down from the Lurch with an

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  dinner: achieved. Pepper Sky is SO GOOD) Wednesday: Wednesday was a LOT ... : One of Petey’s former students came in to give a talk about his work at ... Phantom with the Reawakening at East Campus. If I had to sum it up in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  within a diverse community while developing skills in areas of problem ... experience. My own description is a little shorter: The best six days of my ... What do Chancellor Grimson, The Salvation Army, and I have in common

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  come out in a couple of days (I love the word "tenterhooks." It's amazing.). These are just a few small ideas - I know you can think of others tailored ... fear that you're really a cylon, all hope is lost. -If reading science

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  proximal development, in the sense that learning is best achieved when things are not a breeze, but not totally impossible; in particular, they are ... ='I remember playing a piece called "day, night, and day again" in like 6th grade

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  that would fit in the span of 10 or so days is a difficult task ... researchers in my UROP group is from Milan, and he gave me a ton of ... be a part of in Italy"]MISTI Italy GTL.[/annotation]I was supposed to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  friends and family, perhaps visiting your favorite childhood haunts in a ... to eat... well, whatever the reason, college is a way to leave home ... , tinker in that lab, or spend a year overseas (all expenses paid) teaching

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  be done, and walking around campus is not unlike walking around a 3 ... ; is the blogger get together known in all it's syntactically misleading ... paths because, let's face it, MIT is a broad and deep place to be immersed

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  present Dorian and Ben. Khalea's video is also in a link on her profile page ... extraordinary contributions in a variety of areas. When I was skimming through the ... ! ______________________________ On a personal note, I must say that in addition to being super

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.

  

  Her Awesomeness), who is temporarily blogging in the TIM the Beaver blog before settling into her own blog here in about a month.  I don ... being done at both the Poverty Action Lab and the Program in Developmental

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2006 Day 1 Campus Preview Weekend has begun! [photos]

  

  of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Performances included ... : Registration began at 9am with a huge influx of people. It was great to see so many familiar faces! Mitra helps to check in one of the first students to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  blogs MIT Admissions would launch in 2004. Now, with more than a dozen ... : November 3, 2004, entitled "(Q & A)^n" First Omnibus with "Omnibus" in ... . Over the past year, I've learned a lot about blogging and how to best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  by the ARC - so my knowledge thereof is a bit limited. I just spoke ... 're in a huge hurry, follow those links. Hope this helps! ... I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  reports that the snowman's head had indeed been removed and destroyed in a ... gave it a ceremonial sending off in the moat and sought a replacement. A ... awesomest hat ever, it should be here in about a week or two. We actually

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  hours in front of a crowd of 200 screaming people. The energy was wild and ... exploration"]REX[/annotation] was a week. A week. In just that time, I forged ... MIT student life in such a liberated and carefree way. Looking back, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  Confidential when I was applying to colleges, and this is probably a good thing ... also, I guess, because they can help explain a slightly lower GPA in some ... applications ask for your unweighted GPA, so the fact that your GPA is 26.2 on a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005