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• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  you begin to spread yourself too thin? As a prospective MIT student, you have probably realized that there is an “Activities” portion to the ... extracurricular activities in an effort to fill this section. NOTE: the application

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  Office/Grey's Anatomy, and went to four hours of straight classes followed ... long since my last entry, but also, my parents will be calling to see if ... . (I mean, I...) Phillippe wonders: When do freshman get to see the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  to get into the Museum Of Science for free. A few weeks back, Diana, Evelyn, and I went to check out some of the exhibits. Now probably one of ... is huge, and it's pretty much impossible to do everything in one day

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  posting it up on the web. I polished off an apple at the end to keep the doctor away. Because that's how calories work. I have two younger brothers. I used to say "little" brothers but now they're both bigger than me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  new meaning. So this week, I decided to shape up a little. By this, I ... , gathered my books, went to a study room, and didn't move for about four hours ... less intimidating. That's not to say it's easy. This semester, in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  's pretty inspiring to see all those folks from the MIT Instrumentation Lab ... that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space ... you want to try at home with your vacuum cleaner. Ours is very different

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  . Anyhow, I just wanted to point out and celebrate the 5th Leap Day in my ... -9-9-9." Went to sleep at 9:30 every night because staying up past 10:00 was a ... road trip back to school because all the roads were clogged from Chinese

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  . Aomawa is also a contributor to the new book She's Such a Geek: Women Write ... about her career as an astronomer. Other contributors to the book include ... Beauty and the Geek. The concept of the show is to take eight geeky guys

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  see how well that works. I used to hear that cooking is just applied ... groups, it's a lot more interesting to cook for myself. By the way, I hate ... of a pyramid--larger blocks at the bottom, smaller ones on top. Try to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  in the math community. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to ... run the San Diego Math Circle, which I had a chance to visit. A Math ... plurality of whom where students in grades 6-10. I spoke briefly to the group

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  [note: As of August 2006, this entry is out of date in regard to testing requirements. For the most up-to-date information, please view the MIT Admissions home page] All []s represents edits to this entry made on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  bioengineering! (...Look how I manage to work in all this random MIT stuff. It ... Okay, I'll admit that it's been a slow week for me, so I'm going to ... Economics Department to receive the Clark Medal." According to Soundings

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  shop in Seattle), and I gathered to select the bloggers who will join our ... and permutations of our cohort, duking it out (I mean, as close to ... (Nashua, NH). I used to think I was obsessed with things until I read her

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  Cue Monday afternoon. I'm hungry because I decided to not spend money ... down and worked for a bit while enjoying the food. Good luck to Suzy on ... calories later- I went to an event put on by the MIT Innovation Initiative

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit ... cold to type, but hey, that’s the outside for you. The class I took over ... . If I’m going to study the built environment, I figure I should share

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  , and I still haven't found a novel way to detail my first three and half ... the superiority or inferiority of crunchy peanut butter compared to ... the powers of Course 16 in the form of Raul '10 to back me up. Arun

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  Scholars from New Hampshire and is headed to Washington, D.C., in June to be ... impressed that he's one of two Presidential Scholars in the state, headed to ... : Just how would I break the search engine?" said Smith, 18, a Hollis

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  contribution to the Human Genome Project (you know... the one that sequenced the ... gained a lot of attention. I haven't gotten the chance to read it yet, but my lab is coordinating a book group to get together and discuss it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  dorm collection, or borrow the pool cues/ping pong paddles/etc to use in ... conveniently labeled. Ta-da! The laundry room. Not much to say here, really ... awful lot of clean socks they forgot to pick up. This is Burton

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  education will be done. I wonder how it will feel to feel that silence when ... I grew up, from 13 to 18, and where I spend most of my IAPs and long ... grandmother on my dad’s side, which I only get to do when I visit my parents. We

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016