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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  they're up to these days! It's not surprising that MIT alumni have found ... ! Students can apply to up to three externships in the middle of Fall semester ... interested in, you pick up a few skills, and you hopefully make some

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  time I had before my brother woke up and kicked me off. Grinding off some ... second episode my brother would wake up and take his throne in front of the ... whole day but I promise that this story has a point. Growing up I watched

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  order something, then walks up to the man working the register, throws his ... up, smiles, and says "Satan! I've been waiting for you!" "I've been ... manager has sidled up to the counter and is standing behind his employee

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  visits me and he can ham it up even more: a) Without fail, the first ... couple years we've shipped up (or is it down? I still haven't gotten used ... (last year we got too distracted in Sandwich so we didn't quite make it up

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  Radio way back when? For you prefrosh who've signed up for Terrascope or for those of you that will eventually sign up, it's a class you can take ... up to us to decide exactly how we were to produce, split up into groups

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  does add up to a substantial amount of time. The commute starts pretty ... cruising up to the northeast. The 40 minute route diverges from most major ... state en route to work, I started firing up that present moment mentality

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  encounter with the wall earlier that week, HAD to bring up that by some FREAK ... again, I've only been there to take exams. We made our way up to the ... lowered. With a $1 fee, I picked up some climbing shoes and I was ready to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  , the villain, wants the magic ring and so comes up with a convoluted plot ... a request that she give up the ring to the Rhinemaidens or the gods ... like gilt leaf overlaid on brick, close-up. But from far away, the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up ... , except for my recitation section, but maybe it'll pick up. Not much to say ... class follow-up to 2.009. 2.009 introduces you to how products are made

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  muttonchops, and sustainably-harvested calabash smoking pipe, I roll up my mental coding sleeves, pull up a terminal, and rake impatiently at the ... victory. 1:55 PM I bundle up and continue along my irreversible temporal

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  already boarded. I rolled up to the driver. “Can I get on this bus?” He ... . The car filled with cricket sounds and clean, cool air. After setting up ... the next 15 minutes on a mission: my hair drenched, pants rolled up and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  gave up. Which means you get no logic, sorry. Just think of this post as ... weekends ago, I took a morning bus up the countryside to the next big town on ... walking by. To take up more of my day, I decided to ride the shuttle around

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  have a massive summer reading list that I cooked up... although it is ... companies (arguably, that's redundant) don't like to give up their stuff. I ... 're getting rid of. Most companies end up sending piles and piles of perfectly

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 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 ... dig the pictures) And something shiny tonight that will likely end up ... bajillion new pieces of art have sprung up. One of them looks like a giant

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  could not put my thoughts together while studio’ing it up for midterm ... up diagrams and export drawings from my 3D model - which I spent all ... couple months as an architecture student, summed up in a quote from Joel

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  international students.   The Early Action season is shaping up to be a ... and bags of mail. Yesterday, we became up-to-date with application ... to check up on the status of your application components. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  everything familiar to me. Until then, my summers had been taken up by academic ... department of Sandia National Labs. How? Talking. I hardly ever shut up about ... , I woke up to an empty house (my family had left for France), and sat

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 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…

  

  great experience. We've come up with a logo to represent Arts at MIT ... compromise, we've decided we could probably liven up the place a bit by ... this, so once this gets up and running I could probably blog about it. A

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  summer reading list and catching up on a whole list of movies ... “catching up with culture and society,” I also have on the list reacquainting ... fill up by January and send it back to Art House Co-op, the organization

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  the way up, but not for a particular reason any more palpable than the ... halfway up the mountain, legs and throat on fire, clothes soaked through to ... down and hit up an onsen (hot springs) at the base of the mountain. It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009