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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  that can benefit: “I would often also emphasize this with my ROTC ... ’s appropriate.” In my experience, humor has single-handedly gotten me through the past three-and-a-half years of drinking from the MIT firehose. During my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  During a pset party last night, one of my hallmates called her own ... very messy rationalization. But you can absolutely take my word for my ... getting paid and doing two of my favorite things, and I felt like the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  space for my architecture studio, I got a call from my friend saying that ... wave my cell phone in the air.) Despite sleeping something like 16 hours ... , shuffling through options in my head - I could go back to the bus station, go

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  clusters for my daily dose of midnight Haskell practice. Instead, I bumped ... apartment instead of East Campus (I've spent all my previous summers interning ... change by tomorrow) of my hard-hitting semester, which, seven days after

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  Hello! My name is Natnael Getahun, but please call me Nat. I'm your ... to introduce myself. And because I'm bad at narrating my life, we'll go ... The Wizards of Oz(aka my parent's old friends) had a huge impact on

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  Some of you may look at my last post and wonder, "what's happened to ... a Group Leader in charge of getting my group of students around the ... treat indeed). I personally had a great time getting to know my group and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  to do a UROP involving research that's tangential to my major ... programming language that I'm now using in my linguistics research. So ... purpose. For my UROP, I'm currently working at the Quantitative Research in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  Here's the skinny on my summer. I got a fellowship from the MIT ... /the thing you’re putting together the marketing campaign for? Answer: My ... thus stimulate the economy on the island. So my tasks now are to

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  title of this entry. If you haven't thrown up yet, hang on. My friends ... my punny ways are a lot stronger when I'm around them; this entry is ... my riddle: It takes about 8000 engineers to change a (metaphorical

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  Boston, February 5, 1861 My Dear Henry, I have just returned from ... Legislature and several meetings have prevented my writing within the past week ... am sorry, my dear brother, that I can give no reliable good news in

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  make my decision regarding which college I wanted to go to, I was pretty torn over my options. I was mainly choosing between MIT (which is just ... the MCAT). I thought I'd share my thoughts on this matter - since some

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  A lot of comments from my last entry touched on the leadership topics ... this. I was a captain of my Cross Country and Track teams in high school ... think one day my coach just announced it to the team. Now, as a captain

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  little more important. I’m at the phase of my life where I’m deciding whether I want to continue in school and get an advanced degree after my ... get conversations going, pass around my resum√©, and ask specific

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  . "Wait...beat! That's it!" I called my friend David - a man so metal, he ... guitar. My plan? To defeat the zombies with a logic bomb. We'd play death ... my headphones, ready to unleash percussive chaos. As the zombies

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  readers may have picked up on, this is one of those times, as my summer has ... nigh un-un-packable. So here's my shot at giving you the blog equivalent ... drawings. And you know, try not to make it cost a bajillion dollars. My

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  further ado, let me tell you why. In no particular order, my classes: 7 ... , I’m excited again, since both of my parents are in the biology field ... my fantasies, I imagine 4.111 being like Project Runway, where

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  This week has been a battle for all of us – I just finished my ... the “2nd-Semester Senior” (SSS) wave early. My friends and I started ... the realization that I have 0 chance to go to my early school, I was

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  under construction my freshman year and noticed my sophomore year that ... a showtime into my schedule. ABOVE: Central Square Theater's new ... of such plays. As I took my seat in the large black box theater, I read

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  that my name is Dave and I'm the new Communications Manager for ... , reckless. My job is to tell you what MIT is really like and then let you ... need is a crash course in all things MIT, so I've spent my first few

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exhibitions@MIT [by Leah Brunetto '12] Something different amidst displays of scientific progress.

  

  -registration, you can even exhibit your work on the MIT campus! My name is Li, and I ... community. My exhibit was titled "Pieces of Paradise," and I formally ... of thematic umbrella that reaches over much of my work. Here are a

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2009