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• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  I've been promising for a while that I would post some pictures from ... with my other entries. I spent the summer working as a research intern ... Center for Neuroscience & Technology. I consider this MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  One of the economics electives I have signed up for is 14.11: Putting ... , persuasion, corruption and voting. (See the syllabus on this site for a ... original experimental study (i.e., not only library or Google research) with

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  exhibit, half playful laboratory- the walls are lined with mini interactive ... to the Edgerton Center for help with independent projects for which ... Okay, so what I am about to recount for you happened like 2 whole

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The drummers for the bands Queen and Duran Duran are ... , called... Don't let it control you! about the work/play balance at MIT. I'm bleeding this about my awesome 120-mile bike trip with Tester Lab. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  , the store isn't bad - and yay for getting another free shirt. :) ... forming for like 3 blocks down a side street. At 6:45, after much scuffling ... getting a free T-shirt shoved into my arms. I felt like Napoleon, doing his

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  but you never believe, you’re playing for the big leagues now. You can ... just waiting for me to bring him home. He keeps a very watchful eye as I sleep and dares anybody who walks by to have a staring contest with him

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  we took the picture with flash, the stop sign was so reflective it ... got them at the COOP on Monday after coveting them for a year. I had been waiting for a rainy day to wear them, and today was the day: it came

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  preparedness for MIT, and with the knowledge that tests are only one factor among ... , our office will be suspending our usual SAT/ACT testing requirement for ... outcome-driven and applicant-oriented: we don't value scores for their own

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  screen, you could see what I was seeing. I played around with a digital ... MIT Media Lab that I got to try out an augmented reality headset for the ... digital objects around the room, spinning and zooming in on them with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  this is helpful and answers lots of questions... Music. If you play ... acceptable). CDs will be forwarded on to the music department for evaluation ... and your talents can be considered with your other talents in your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  ". On the second day we drove to the village Vík, where our hotel for the ... for several hours--there was a power outage, it was cold out, no one ... all the way back to our room, and went to sleep, preparing for another

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  for this fan-comic that I made with some friends when we were incoming ... keep coming across drawings for blog posts that I decided not to publish. I thought it'd be fun to show some of these! Better Call Tim??? Date

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  academic masochist. Wait, what's that? You like doing all that work for ... activities and life: Spend your time with things you're passionate about. Don ... have a chance a college. In the end, it's what you did for the love of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  's okay. You'll spot the car with the giant STUDENT DRIVER sign on top ... with except for the fact that you're squinting because you were staring ... passage to sit in a classroom after school with a dozen other kids and watch

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  students do. But that's not the case; admissions is a year-round job, and ... ? Preparing for the influx of summer visitors. Beginning in a few weeks, crowds for our twice-daily information sessions and tours should start getting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  With all the WiFi problems in [annotation note="One of the big ... -ever rehearsal with digital sheet music this Monday! When I joined MITWE at the ... drawstring bag here, but I had to use a literal trash bag with an elastic band

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  when I discuss science with the public. Last weekend, I gave a talk for ... über Christa T. (The Quest for Christa T.) by Christa Wolf   ... the good I could do for the world) and would maximize, if I could only

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  with parents. W. Scott Friedhoff, vice president for enrollment at ... -aid administrators say it has become fairly common for parents with substantial six ... with incomes of $200,000 to $300,000 applying for need-based aid," says

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat It, Bump It, Spike It MIT + NCAA: Two acronyms people don't normally expect in the same sentence.

  

  here at MIT, but I've never seen Rockwell Cage that packed. People with signs, painted chests, but unfortunately no pots and pans. I guess I have

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  hour (and non-waking hour for that matter - I've been dreaming about it ... searching for ways to help. Do any of you have other ideas to add? Also ... source. If you've found other things like this, feel free to add them in

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005