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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  You’ve read in my blog entries about the weekly Engineering ... /50, while my team got the pieces they needed to turn in the other one. The ... rounds, my team ended up in third, but after our quick debrief, they

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  right now, I'd like to discuss something that's been on my mind for a few ... 'm biased, as Circles mirrors my own previous research into what Facebook ... college, I'm now beginning to feel "old" in that I realize my own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  so this subject is both fresh in my mind and timely for yours as the ... editor at The Atlantic and one of my favorite bloggers - in which he quotes ... infinitude? That's my question. In fact if God is involved in this matter

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  , you have my permission to put down your AP study books and take a look. As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour ... best part was over dinner, when my kids sat there with paper and pencil

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  (come revel in my depthless wit in real life!), and who knows what else ... really what life is like? My non-institute-sanctioned opinion on 0) is to ... academic lectures. But in my opinion, one of the greatest assets at MIT is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  memory. Set a reference frame there for now. What do you see? In one of my ... to the front door, but before I'm halfway there, I trip and skid my knee against the stairway's coarse corners. (Yeah, my earliest memories

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  spent my freshman summer at Airborne school in Ft. Benning, Georgia ... country and enlisted members of other services. For my sophomore summer, I ... the ones we practice during FTX's. In my experience, ROTC makes you

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  in my two and a half years of doing Model UN in high school - to help ... tomorrow, and in some cases, travel through time. While my obligations ... , read: pizza) subbed in for my bland dietary regimen of pop-tarts, cereal

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  http://my.mit.edu. Complete your MIT Midyear Report now. The MIT ... out by you, the applicant, online via your MyMIT Tracking. The MIT ... attending school; MIT has all of my grades." I'll also try to field any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  workers greeted [my friend] and showed her around a little bit," she said ... , according to Piper, a junior majoring in course 6-2. "In my experience ... ’t necessarily understand or even agree with certain aspects of my life, is

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  'll keep my face warm" you say. "You know not everyone can grow one" you say ... mind races at the implications: "No more food stuck on my face! No more tickling my lips as I talk!" "No more beard!" Then, so brief as to be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  , the yearbook and photography club of MIT, and as such it is my job not ... get bogged down in work :S COOKING ADVENTURES: My single in Simmons Hall ... . And then of course there's a blog on my research which I've been meaning

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  tell us about your current research work? A. In my lab we are tackling ... tasks, like recognizing faces and recognizing places. My colleague Rebecca ... course that you teach? A. In my undergrad course students go straight to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  , where all my media stops: I was playing for the rest of the night and, as ... you are banging out songs on a mbung-mbung. My sister took one photo of ... join in on the show and show off their mad drumming/dancing skills. To my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  I remember the first time I ever heard of Facebook. I was donning my cap and gown and preparing to walk at my high school graduation. Pomp ... - my life. This was ages ago - long before the first Rick had ever been

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  a half months ago, I thought that was just one of my many fleeting ... that I knew in grade school. Not even the Earth that I knew from my ... has low air pressure - after a few weeks one of my friends said, "I don

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  me and Elizabeth (one of my teammates for toy design last year) about ... enjoyment of my smooth, melodious voice may be misguided (and a touch creepy ... , Barry My darling Elizabeth, If tomorrow is indeed the soonest I may enjoy

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  tomorrow after my project's done…Maybe next week…" Fortunately ... for both, to maximise my chances of getting into one of them; these ... show us that even within narrow parameters—for example, my randomly

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  dinner tonight was a really bad idea.)(These people may also be my stomach ... I was little, my favorite store was the Sanrio store, and my favorite

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  to test into Japanese this year. My Japanese was really, really poor in ... confidence in Japanese and decided to spend this IAP refining my language ... period of 2 months or so when my parents started freaking out about me not

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008