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  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  events such as Splash, Spark, Cascade, and several others! The program I ... teaching high schoolers about any topic they want. To give you a sense of the ... at the moment. But seriously, the breadth is absolutely astonishing

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  To set the mood: Come Home by Baynk. [caption id="attachment_38993 ... first week back. #nofilter.[/caption] Returning back to the 'Tute “After a ... .” - ETH Zürich Student Exchange Office The past month has been quite the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  This week, I spent four days and three night at the Salvation Army Wonderland Camp and Conference Center in Sharon, MA for the MIT Leader ... the big dreams that brought you to campus in the first place. Leader

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  DESCENDED TO EARTH The machine is the brainchild of MIT’s very own startup Lambda Tea, and the three wonderful human beings responsible for its ... the most useful thing ever, why hasn’t anybody thought of that?” (My

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline Q & A

  

  ! Here are the most important things to keep in mind as you wrap your MIT ... Part 2, please go to the bottom of each page of the document, select save and continue through the entire document and resubmit. We find this

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • December 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  head for the past 2 weeks that I have been on campus, I still can ... was only around 70 students and the entire school was in a warehouse. Like, actually, the rectangular building used to be a warehouse for some

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually blog about, I had the chance to connect to Vaishnavi at one of the ... might interest several high school students. The details follow below

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  Life is back on the MIT track… I ended my most recent blog post with that. Here’s what it means. Last week was Career Fair. The day when suits replace the sweatpants+baggy tee combos and everyone clutches a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  EECS student Michael McGraw teaches STEM concepts in Regensburg, Germany As part of the Global Teaching Labs program, student Michael McGraw taught Physics, Biology and…

  

  MISTI Notes from the Field     Topics I taught I taught ... -cranked generators, and a few other circuitry elements. The purpose of this lesson was to learn about power distribution and to gain a sense of the how the

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  The college admissions process is often compared to dating. It's a dance that happens between students and colleges where the power dynamic shifts back and forth several times; one courts the other, then the other

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  I'm currently sitting in the SeaTac airport, waiting for my flight ... my early departure from the west coast while my closest high school ... , where my family is and I return for the holidays, where I can get behind

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  : I'll go the gym starting tomorrow!! And from this week on, I'll gym 3 times a week. I'll be strong, fit, the works. On Jan 2, it means: ahhhhhh, that was today? Well, still gotta enjoy the year. It's only just begun

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  , challenges I found myself learning to deal with as time fled. I was part of the ... , a sort of climax emerged. I was on the path to being part of Nigeria ... receive grades for the regular classes I was missing, and needed to make up

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  It’s nearly the end of October, and autumn has finally begun coloring the city of Boston. Baker’s annual piano drop (this time, filled with ... Skate yesterday night, and the annual pumpkin drop from the Green Building

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  "Nat, to hack you need to understand systems better than the sys admins, networks better than the IT department and operating systems better than the people who wrote them" - Dan T. '85 (my boss) I chuckled and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  , tests, med school interviews, extracurriculars, and more. By the time ... Houston. For the next two weeks, all I did was read at Barnes and Noble (I finally read the last book in the Eragon series! Yeah...I haven't really

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , I'm awake before the sun has risen fully: I'm living at UPenn this ... , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at ... something at the Merck cafeteria (the latter happens way too often, sigh - one

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  This past week was, hands down, the best spring break of my college ... and arrive safely in the ever-humid city of Houston, Texas. Enter: sleep, food, an absence of psets, and the realization that my younger

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sigma ChIgloo MIT Fraternity brothers engineer a 10 foot igloo while relaxing in Maine

  

  roommate Mike '13 and I did a quick calculation. Approximating the igloo we ... the construction.         If the density of ... quick internet query and are not 100% sure about), then the igloo weighs

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • March 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  I've decamped from the Boston area northwards to New Hampshire for the weekend. My house in the suburbs of Cambridge, while high enough to ... , hang out with my brothers, and try to ride out the worst of it. But

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011