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• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  about admissions and instead transform into a cozy place where we can discuss my three favorite TV shows: Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, and Grey ... becoming so advanced that they reach human-like awareness and rebel against

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  free. My goal is thus to plan the most extravagant and self ... in Chemical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, and Nuclear ... 'll excommunicate you from MIT, lock you in a pillory, and melt the key MIT's nuclear

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  Name: Jonathan Lii Hometown: Manhasset, NY Degrees and Minor: 18 and 15 with a minor in 14 [in layman's terms: a double major in Mathematics and Management, and a minor in Economics] What's next: Working as a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  I'm in a cool HASS (Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences) class this semester. A very cool HASS class. It's simply called 'Rhetoric' and we study ... , is all around us. Its fruits are bore on every billboard, every cereal

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  could spend all day there using their free wifi and eating their hummus ... ! All right, stay posted for spring-term adventures (and perhaps some ... Hey all! I haven't been around this site in months, and rather than

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  , and do not have to choose a major until the middle of their second term ... booths for each department and free stuff for freshmen (biology department ... friends, and went last-minute shopping this afternoon with my little brother

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  I met Will and Kristina in very different parts of campus. I was ... popped up and started speaking to my friend in Chinese. I hardly even got ... Chinese... Kristina and I were teammates on the MIT Sport Taekwondo team

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  humanities department. Question: Can you double and triple-major at MIT ... to get a UROP and do research as an undergraduate. Margaret Mac ... --sneaking into labs well after their closing times, RB used NMR, UV, and IR

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  academia. Some are even professors! And, as of this term, one of them ... we'll post periodically. And just generally, feel free to get in touch ... today, Catherine circulated an announcement (and syllabus) for a new class

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  Society of Women Engineers event as well as the HackMIT Git seminar. (Free ... very kind and helpful company reps and upperclassmen - and, as it happened, was also filled with Chipotle. (Free dinner: achieved) Thursday

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  dialogue about the process and how it is practiced. The real test will come ... : Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common Good through College Admissions ... achievement pressure, and level the playing field for economically disadvantaged

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  merit to it? I spent some time doing some thinking and was talking to my ... supreme, grad students and researchers would casually share their Myers ... ” behind it (tl;dr: there is none) and was inspired to take and research a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  singles. Does not count cats. No quads or triples here... unless you really ... can look down the entire length of your hall and see EVERYTHING.. 7 ... maintained, and you can even knock first if you're so inclined. 8. You can

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  finances, health, lifestyle, and academics have been my responsibility since ... months, and I can cross the catastrophes off my record. Next semester ... and sleep, but gained the priceless skill of taking naps anytime (#1, 4

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  double (or triple -- slightly debatable) pun in the title and subtext. For ... exactly did all that time go? That's an answer too long and boring for this post (and for maybe any post; the last few months have been either a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  a variety of reasons, none of which I'm going to touch. The long and ... exactly what's going on right now and it's simply not responsible of me to ... explained well in any of the material and it also seemed like a really

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  Name University with lots of money and prestige, I hope that this is ... college search process. She is the first in her family to attend college and ... uncertain about the process of identifying schools and how to apply to college

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  've been in Germany for a little over a week now and I've already climbed 509 stairs, taken a four-hour tour down through Rhineland, and traveled over ... always has people smoking in it, and the lower room smells like it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  Last semester was pretty rough, and I vowed to make this semester different. I tried to get into a fifth class and didn't (it was too ... 'm chilling -- and this chill, combined with the delightful chill of my IAP (and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  /get organized before term starts. Also, Toy Design starts soon and I'm really ... parts and a toolbox, but now that I've finished building my robot I ... . We used mills to drill holes in some polystyrene brackets, and we

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009