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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  ’ll be using infrared data to learn how the Milky Way formed. But before I ... University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my ... this, I’ll move back to the US for graduate school in astronomy at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on ... the badly-peeling varnish layer, but somehow I never got around to painting. But as my senior year drew closer and closer to the end, as finals

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  hands. From outside, I could see how the latch had to be adjusted in order ... to go bouldering on MIT's climbing wall. As we rounded the corner, a ... unsuccessfully to fasten it shut. The climbing wall is run by volunteer staff, who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  say anyways.  When I applied to the Cambridge- MIT Exchange (CME ... experiences are quite different at both places and listening to the stories from ... program. They talked about how they didn't have as much weekly work (we have

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) (complaining about the ratio of male to ... WOMEN'S bathrooms: ZERO POINT TWO FIVE!!! MIT male: Uh...how did you get ... resident woke up to find a personalized sticky note on his or her door. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  issues, and all I can say is that we figured out how to be friends. Fancy ... paired up for their room assignments within Baker. "Want to be my roommate ... sided sheets of paper with prompts like "Who do you want to live with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  in all your pictures, and to know what a Roth IRA is and how to ... would appear overnight, know how not to constantly be too snarky for my ... stops, only to start up two seconds later with the beeping oh god the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  special how she smeared herself with purple Crisco before a Grateful Dead ... everybody knows happened there really got to me. But as our English ... . Somebody remarked that it was impossible to get by the Brandenburger Tor

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  anything. But should it be? Hmmm... You have no idea how excited I was for ... season has been horrible. Sigh... it's been my dream to go on The Amazing ... be of age. Then I just need to find a partner. I need somebody who can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  , we need to learn how to tell what our guys are thinking and match our ... Goldberg-type inventions that MIT students make to complete mundane tasks and ... Random Hall laundry server that lets you know whether or not to make a trek

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  the literature to support his claims. • Proof by funding: How could ... my approach to MIT (more on that later), I've finally figured out my ... . Actually, I didn't expect it to be this great at all. Even though I loved

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... some face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to write your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  to Nate and his friend Alicia*), I spoke with one high school senior ... opportunities to learn about nanotech. Given the vague definition of the term (think of how many things are on the nanoscale) and its interdisciplinary

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  collegial idea-sharing, I've returned with some thoughts on how to improve our ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   One of my goals for keeping this blog is to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  why we should care. Here’s a link to MIT-specific resources on how we ... previous year that contributed to my culinary development. I started working ... inspirations, and allowing me to focus on what’s for dinner. At the same time, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  - and very cool to realize how easy it is to match a passage of text with ... instinct is to do what you ALWAYS do when you have a question about her MIT ... to steal her computer. First stop: gmail calendar, obviously. You get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  .14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510..................... How many digits do you know? More to come later today about how MIT celebrates Pi Day. How do you celebrate Pi Day ... its diameter? A: Pumpkin pi. Don't forget to celebrate Pi Day (3

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2021 taking on the legacy

  

  the grip Spotify Wrapped has on society is truly astounding. time to contribute to the buzz with another year of blogger wrapped! minutes spent ... listening to Spotify constantly. this is not true because i am at the lower

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  MIT sponsors an annual trip to an apple orchard in Stow, MA for ... , and now I have enough apples that it would be wasteful for me not to eat ... to pick half a peck of apples, a hayride, a bottle of cold apple cider

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  Garfield has Spider-Man on lock. How to Win Friends and Influence People A ... week. The rules are simple, what I post needs to be something that you ... . Amazing Spider-Man 2 I was lucky enough to see this movie on April 12th

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014