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• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  adapted to be a description of the stereotypical MIT engineer, this is wrong ... able to write on this site, so when the GEL program asked if I wanted to ... opportunity to be able to link some of the lessons I’ve had in engineering

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  start in statistical thinking now. First, a few facts on which to chew: 1 ... 't have a citation for this, which is sketchy, so feel free not to believe ... (and it's difficult to think of a school which would be a good control

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  clients -- from Tour de France stage winners to some of North America ... to put bikes in it," Cote recalled. Two weeks after arriving on campus ... Sports Innovation, whose mission is to involve undergraduates in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  :15: "MIT is the Harvard of science." 5:32 to 5:41: "Taiwanese at MIT are ... applicant's personality, which might not be captured on paper. 1:34 to 1 ... inclination." (me: umm, I think the EC is running out of stuff to say =p) Host

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  Product: This is a picture of our final plan that I had to pitch to the ... ” of multi-disciplinary engineers was tasked with trying to get three ... failures of the AC unit for the car leading to a few occurrences of smoke and

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  classroom or lab setting.   Isaac G. '17 Don't be afraid to put more on ... or you think your calendar is looking a little too bare. Try to figure ... while doing work or studying. Being able to type while reading on a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  meaning of the word life is, or what the meaning of the meaning of the word ... (12.000) in the fall, which is, "designed to provide students the ... karate is enough to rid the planet of aliens should they invade earth, and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  like to tell my friends and relatives is that “IAP, which stands for ... friends are indeed using the first week or two of January to extend their ... Rock Band, go to a quick seminar or two...that sort of thing. I guess we

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

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  allowed to admit each year, it is better for us to compare all of the ... recieve a masters or a doctrates of philosophy from that point. Is it two ... , in two or three years. But to answer your question, most of my friends

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  After two and a half years here, you’d think I’d know most or all of what there is to know about MIT. But I don’t think I even come close ... that goes on here. Case in point: over the past year or so, I’ve been

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  'm hoping for this one to be better. I'm happy that I seem to remember more of ... in it with me, which is nice since it means I'll always have someone to ... It is term, and now I have classes! Five of them, right now. I hope

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  application season approaches. I hope to post it some day soon. That day is not ... editor at The Atlantic and one of my favorite bloggers - in which he quotes the introduction to E.L. Doctorow's novel City of God. I quote it for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  , though, is not the side of campus that your living group happens to be on ... , which is a specific dorm which falls under the umbrella category of East ... stereotypical MIT student may or may not be true, depending on whose version of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  to leave, which meant I had time to change and get to my next class on ... is assigned on a different scale than academic credit, which means that ... to be good at broomball and everyone falls over constantly, which of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  happened to leave a message on your machines or with your parents, feel free ... if we were lured by the idea of talking to prospective students or the ... names I remembered from Facebook or the blogs - which was amusing, to say

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  . Nothing is static here. You have to be on your toes all the time and listen ... said. Peter then went on to describe a story of an encounter he had with ... went on to ask how they had felt the teaching of Physics has changed in

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  :47 Victoriana Tea Gather to bemoan the decline of our Queen Victoria's empire or ... . Next fall you might find yourself wanting to be a Randomite (or an ... on dumplings. Come learn the basic fold, or just perform a metabolic

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  which is located on 34th street in New York City. (Hence the movie title ... kitchen, the TV in the living room is left on channel 4 (NBC) which ... formal sit-down dinner like you see on TV. All sorts of food is set out and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  which one major component is Residential Exploration, or REX for short, which is part of how housing is assigned. According to MIT's Dormitory ... live, REX is a great opportunity to find out about the different parts of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  ’s like ??  a good bowl of beef noodle soup is hard to come by. i fear that ... on what ingredients would be good to have in the broth… this is ... on all of these dishes"]The menu looked suspiciously well designed to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025