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• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  installing some sort of video conferencing system. I can hardly believe how ... is Russ, after about 30 miles of biking: As you can see, Russ ... UROP advisor) look just a little nervous? In a "I better give this guy a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  /co-workers. (another interesting tidbit: half of our team can probably be seen in the ... good taste in music and also a beautiful singing voice, which I know ... , you just can't find people who will do that anywhere else. I also

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  top of the A tier. You can read more about my experience in Madrid here ... at MIT where I can genuinely say I’ve had a positive experience in it ... can think of is 6.08. Now read that again. How is it that I have taken

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  self-improvement, nor is it a list of books I think you'll like, although I liked them. It's a list of all the books I read or started any time ... , sister, best friend, chickens, poodle) in the temperate rainforest of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

   hyped for it, so I'm attaching it to the bottom of this blog post in case you ... concentration in Computing and Society that I am stupidly geeked about and want to ... and depth in a single field. As I mentioned in my blog post about the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  . In college, I think it's important to take classes that are special, in ... 't so obviously useful - but is probably one of the most special classes I ... -western-culture Medieval texts - with a Medievalist. In the original Middle English. If I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  have fallen in love with the strong sense of community i’ve experienced ... experience here that it seems unreal. and i can’t wait for the regularity of my classes and activities to kick in so i don’t feel the sense of chaos that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  blog comments about it in the last month, so I figured it was a hot topic and that you'd appreciate the update. All I can say is that we're trying ... answered then. In the meantime, keep your fingers crossed! I know mine are.

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One wonderful day I might just make it, after all.

  

  First of all, good afternoon to any visitors I might have who are ... and thus oxygen mass transfer in E. coli fermentation, and I'm doing it ... 's all, "Oh, I'll just do it tonight! Maybe you can come over and we can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  organization on Harvard's campus. The shelter is in the basement of the ... '), and where in the kitchen you would hide if aliens invaded. I wanted to ... there ahead of me. Then, I wanted to climb up into the ventilator, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  final research paper. The amount of work took some getting used to, but I can definitely say that I learned a lot and improved in both reading ... conditions of women at MIT. I have personally witnessed a shortage of women in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  these types of experiences. But she didn’t. In retrospect, I feel ... woman can emerge into her own The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an ... , even anger. During my year off, I read a lot about activists of the 1960s

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  have pretty reliable email delivery, but just in case some of you didn't get it, I'm reposting the email in its entirey below. This is also good ... control. There is still plenty of time to complete your application in time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... had to leave MIT. I spent around 190 days at MIT. 185 of those days were as a member of my living community, the Burton Third Bombers. I had

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  -shirt weather spurts in February and March, it seems like this streak of sunshine and relative warmth is here to stay. In this final quarter of my time ... my PE requirement in the last 6 weeks of college makes me "that senior

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  it. CPW I spent most of CPW punting psets in order to gorge myself on ... I'm long overdue for a blog update. To dispel your mental image of me as a faceless recluse, I haven't been posting because of a drought of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  here. Unfortunately I can only mention in passing that the president of ... I know what you're thinking, "Whoa, two posts in two days? How can I ... songs in the traditional language of Senegal, such as [translated] "I went

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  important. In the vein of what I said about not writing an unconventional ... , especially in personal essays. But then again, part of my personality is that I ... mean, these tips certainly make a lot of sense in hindsight, but they

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I GOT TWENTY DOLLARS IN MY POCKET (because I got a press pass to SpringFest 2013, of course. photos inside!)

  

  Fest sold more tickets than any in recent memory.  And by "recent memory," I mean the memories of the seniors I was talking to.  Since I'm a freshman ... !  Probably to the chagrin of the cops in charge of security.  But they didn

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  University in 2000 as a project of Hillel at Stanford; since then, it has ... . The program is open to all children ages 6-13 in the Boston area. I will be one of many counselors who will supervise campers in August. “Kids

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007