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• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  I've never been to Seattle before. One of the things I love about college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month ... , on the ferry to San Juan island.[/caption] I can't express how tragic

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  1. When will the snow piles melt? Bragging rights to whoever gets ... upon a time a few weeks ago, campus was a tame soon-to-be snowman's nest ... "icicles" stemming from the gutters. My guess is going to be May 1. 2. Is

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  ’s backyard). I'd like to share how I found myself working for this 1.5 year old ... peek. To summarize, we wrote a business plan detailing how we would start ... homework means significantly more time to be creative and pursue passions (at

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  to the requirements specified." Now I mentioned before how GEL ... colleagues for showing the world how MIT works." Her May 2nd email to the MIT ... 's "Under the Dome" Open House. To put that into perspective, hosting this

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  Cities to examine how cities recover from disasters like 9/11 or Hurricane ... schools who email with the question: "What now? I don't know what to do." My ... disaster, and it's just too early to tell what the best course of action will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  search. To recap, here's how my internship hunt went: Rejected by ... . social I am honestly really proud of myself for how I was able to maintain ... successful MIT semester I've had to date. I've gone through a series of ups and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  forgot something and I want to update my application, how do I do that ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... on how the pool looks. But if you've been deferred you are now

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  walked to campus today and let the mid-fall breeze bite at my face. i could ... and white and blue era, but i’m shuttled back to red every time. i tried to dye a blue streak in my hair but it came out grayish-green, so i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  bear its name are sold everywhere from the airport to Boston Commons ... humanities. I’ve taken classes from the history of the French Revolution, to Latinx studies, to a literature class on dystopian novels. However, looking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  after were good. So now I'm back here, learning how to not be burnt out ... gotten it since it gives me an excuse to not go to any of my ... reflecting and the first place my mind went to, genuinely, was: Do I deserve

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  ), on 8/25 from 6-8 PM: People will teach you how to cook and will also ... To all the prefrosh who are about to arrive / on their way here / already here: Welcome to MIT! All of us, no matter our class year or living

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  student, you sort of get used to being one of the youngest. Everyone else is ... changed when I went to Next Gen Summit. I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows ... the first day. How did I find myself at one of the most incredible

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  of rape and sex abuse. By listening to what they say about how the ... undecided, my family was close, and how could I be loyal to any other football ... 'd like people to know just how deeply this affects us. I'm near tears

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable ... is working together with farmers and credit union members to build

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  together last term. We get along great now (or know how to fake it with ... turned out to be apple blossom petals. Last week was Bumps week, which is ... behind them catches up to them (bumps them). The first boat across the

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  ? 6.046 is the kind of class that teaches you how to use this broken ... shows how the result travels up the chain of command to you. Each group ... challenging classes I’ve ever taken. It’s a natural followup to MIT

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  was thinking about how to diversify their class by race, income level ... nonsense. Many people have many different metaphors to describe how the ... admissions counselor fashion - I'm going to use this last pulpit opportunity

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  similar to cloud computing? Think of your laptop. How many hours a day do ... the workplace you would have to reserve a time slot to use the big office computer, bring all of your files down to it, do what you needed to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  't agree with either of those sentiments. I like to think IAP is a sort of ... that Cambridge is a strange place to host a purgatory. I suppose I never fully realized how dominated the city is by MIT until a large fraction of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  , and it looks something like [annotation note="to prevent bonfire erasure, they're the other half of the fourth floor -- this video just happens to ... will probably aggressively try to make you dinner; we’re somewhat queer

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021