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• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  " align="aligncenter" width="1000"] credit: Aleks Siemenn (my research grad student)[/caption] research group chat All evening, my [annotation note='with the Accelerated Materials Laboratory for Sustainability, headed by my

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  “I’m going to UROP this summer!” I told my mom over the phone. Later, I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she ... pandemic--” “Yeah, but Mom said you were going.” Apparently my whole family

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  silly tradition, here is a picture of my old room. the move was ... weight between my boxes evenly. i realized that the heaviest thing i had to ... . it's nice being back in this room. it's warmer than my room in simmons

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  dearly. My own history with whiteboards, how I use them in my life, and ... recipes often start off with [annotation note="“my grandma first made me ... ’×4’ whiteboard that is in my room! https://youtu.be/YxWMdDl7IQo Materials required

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  occasion, I’ve used Zoom or FaceTime to get a sense of realness in my ... middle of packing my life up, ready to ship myself back to New York, but I still feel pretty connected to Cambridge. This has been my home for the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  forty on my list, including this one obscure school in Antarctica but it ... How I got all 5s on my AP exams without even trying What question ... spending Halloween? sitting in front of my laptop panicking over which

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a ... 't from one particular category of my thoughts - they are very random and i ... routines is also hard my body really has aged and no longer can function on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  scrolled down and down and down in my google drive and found the incomplete ... disintegrates into Juans upon Juans. I was then shown my quarters for the next ... , white walls, a desk only a little smaller than my own, a bed, a rather

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  -August. 2 of my courses are project-based. For those 2 classes, my project ... . For my German course, we had our final exam last week. As an exchange student, I was able to request to take my 2 session exams as distance

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  It is my long-term quest to visit as many ramen shops around Boston ... :D silly ski lift pic (pc: matt f. '20) On President's Day, my parents ... sausage, and my mom got the yellow eel. This weekend, I felt like

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  at 1 where I worked until 5:15 and went back to my dorm but on the way ... cake and I finished it at like 9:50 and messaged out to my entry to come eat it and then my dad called to talk about a car dealership that opened

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  pretty dated at this point, even though my friends and I just discovered it ... ’s also LITERALLY MY FAVORITE THING ON THE INTERNET AHHHH. Basically, it ... to you. If we look at my graph, we can pick out three big blobs that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  science--’Course 6’. So much so, that about a third of my class ended up ... . My path to entrepreneurship resulted from an entirely different set of ... taking up all of my spare time. Even after the hackathon was over, I found

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  My major may be materials science & engineering, but my heart and mind also find themselves wandering over to writing. Writing is my minor ... on our class website, here. For my news article, I wrote about mental

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  Send-Off Event, a highlight of my August. The welcome from organizers and ... college life. Would my sister Skype with me often? How could I stick all my ... 1984 who would’ve been the next door neighbor at my temporary room

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  ranks in Waze), I'm doing pretty well! I summarized my life after school in my last blog post so I'll just do some quick updates this time ... of my friends are plugging their ways towards their PhDs, have crazy

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  this album from my brother so I expect it to be amazing. Soundtrack to The Polar Express: This was one of my favorite movies as a kid and the ... 't find the fireplace in my dorm room to hang stockings on...) My Only

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  World! (That's my Arduino talking, sorry. I've been having some fun ... , while I've been making things in my spare time, we've also been getting a ... knitted fractal, or a computer program/app.   Q3) How do I submit my

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  It's hard to wrap my head around the chain of events that unfolded within the last couple of hours. As emails flooded my inbox around 10 ... going on. The idea of a shooting occurring on campus was impossible in my

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to ... . Will you edit my application essays? - A HS sophomore asked:  "Basically MIT is 110% my dream school, I have worked so very hard the past

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012