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• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  've been thinking about how it's okay to be in different spaces, especially ... you get to MIT. I've seen how this is true for some. But for me, the ... to be hitting this week. Last night my friends and I wandered from B1

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  change from a D to a B, shhhhhh.) I'm excited to see how the institute ... solemnly completing what became a seventeen page application to my local [annotation note="To be explicitly clear, the point of this line is not that it

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  tonight. I'm heading to a skate shop this weekend so I can learn how to ... I chose to stay on-campus this summer because I knew that if I went ... Media Lab, (2) Going through MIT OpenCourseWare content to make my fall

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  My freshman winter break and IAP were very nice, nothing to complain about. I got to fly home and spend two weeks with my family; I came back to campus, learned lots of different things, and had some free time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  . Remember, the final date to submit the FUN form is February 15th. 
 How do ... admitted or deferred in Early Action), and is to be completed by you, the applicant. This form serves two purposes: to share your newest grades, and

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  negotiate with effectively. As a GEL 2, it was great to see how much the GELs ... second-year GEL student (hereafter referred to as a “GEL 2”) is that the ... ; Urgency to Deliver, Initiative, and Decision Making   It’s safe to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  the taxi driver and did my best to communicate (no mean feat, given how ... The night of daylight savings, I tried my best to ensure that I would be on time for my 8:10am flight. I asked the hotel to give me a wake

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  MIT. It's sort of contradictory - how many people go to summer school at ... edition of HowToGAMIT, and more), and a lot of my closest friends are still ... Northwestern and an engineering course at Notre Dame, so I was ready to try

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  they'll be going to their waitlists, and if so for how many students. For ... Common Reply Date. The day by which you need to let your colleges know your decision. If you're still undecided: How can we help you make your decision

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  to do it, how is that even hard!?" Matt and Ben were skeptic. I was ... not only a fire fighter but also because he used to be a cook. For those ... for an army but only has to feed a family, the boy has to eat it all

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh ... they get to the author. --- CPW has been by far one of the best ... breakdown for five minutes when I realized I was going to college with a

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  brainstormed on how to take that energy and translate it to the rest of MyMIT, as ... was so busy trying to make MyMIT live up to its promises that I had ... to be more of a magazine/newspaper type of thing, with "official" News

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  into oil. How do you turn a turkey into oil? Well, Chester, according to ... a pot, grind it up, heat it up to 250 C and 40 atmospheres, dehydrate it, then heat it up to about 500 C, and BAM! distill off some usable

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

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  common knowledge that I never thought to wonder about how it came to be ... of nucleotides if we give them rules for how to find these genes. So ... frames, were all previously invisible to the computer because of how we

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  crazy how much a few years of perspective could bring to the movie ... cinematography was so contentious, how Stanley Kubrick managed to make slow action ... learn about how some stylistic choice in films (choosing what dialogue to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  : Correlation of Responses to Ethnic Conflict.” I’ll be exploring how media ... —learn from Prof. Lander how to make effective pitches!   9. The ... 1. Lamborghini recently brought this magnificent display to campus

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  I went back to downtown Denver after work today, back to the center ... needed to exchange last year’s light-rail tickets for current ones because ... used to see him when I made solitary adventures downtown on Fridays in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  four questions. "Question 1: How do you look deeper? To what depth? As it ... , the MIT admissions officers. Jeremie L. asked, "I'm curious as to how ... ... though, due to my time restrictions during application season and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  are. People are more willing to help you than you think they are

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!

  

  So where did I decide to watch the fireworks from? C! The MIT Sailing Pavillion Now I'll tell you why, after I show you everything else. Generic picture of the boats lined up on the Charles River for the fireworks

  • by Bryan
  • July 7, 2006