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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  Force life so that they will become better officers in the future. I spent ... comprised of C-130s. Thirteen other cadets on the visit and I were split up ... different squadrons to get a broad view of base operations. I was lucky enough

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  Okay, so I just figured out how to add the Spanish keyboard to my OS and switch between English and Spanish, so I can now write with accent ... ...it's kind of pathetic, I suppose, that I just figured out how to do this. But

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  , I've gotten a lot of work done (three problem sets, one group project ... generally hanging out with friends. On the other hand, I didn't get much ... honest, I myself felt precisely one year ago. I've grown a lot since then

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  So yesterday, I'm in my office trying to catch up on email when a student who I haven't seen in a long time stops by my office. In the process ... . "Why are you taking a year off?" I ask. Well, he tells me, he, an MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  : Economics) and I met there on Friday night to hear Jewel perform a free ... , condensed version of the Yellow Pages, but I didn't really follow. Jewel did ... Saturday afternoon, my friend Nicole '07 (Course 8: Physics) and I spent a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  My Mets clinched the NL East, and I am crazy psyched. Whoo! So what else has been going on in my life? You know, school and stuff. While I'm slowly making my way through descriptions of classes, I might as well talk

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  Why oh why would I ever go to Agawam? (These could potentially ... birthplace of Anne Sullivan, tutor of Helen Keller, but I'll tell you this, I did not travel to Agawam for this reason. Instead, I went to an old man

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  Scottish band, beating even Franz Ferdinand. Now, you know I don't like to do just plain answer entries; I prefer to supplement them with at least some stupid story about how I gave blood or ate at a foodtruck or stepped on a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  (LBGT) groups. (There could be more sponsors that I'm forgetting.) Gabe ... something and your prize was a goldfish. After I performed the aforementioned task, I went over to the cooler and received my prize from Ian '06. As I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  , and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I ... , and the applications were simply fantastic. I'm sad that we have to turn away 4 out of every 5 applicants. I wish I could say something

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  I can see from the comments that many of you are, quite understandably, very anxious. I've seen this twice a year for the past four years of being an admissions officer, and I'm not sure if during that time I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  everyone* knows each other sin limite/ebony affair/cpw psa; class of 2030 discord plug

  

  When I arrived at Sin Limite (MIT’s admitted students weekend geared towards Hispanic students), I was surprised by how many people knew each other from high school, or even before. I learned there's an ecosystem of

  • by Victor D. '27
  • April 9, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  Sometimes, I receive e-mails from prospective students. I posted a batch of them here, and I think that the time has come to do so again. A high school senior asked: I am applying to some schools in the US for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  tl;dr, here's the document I used to present my final project (edited ... . Some examples are here (slides 20-28). I was inspired by these chocolate ... balloon when the chocolate is set, but I wanted to somehow constrain the

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  I step off my plane, and immediately spot this amusing sign adorned with cowboy hats:   I step outside and breathe in the toasty evening air. Hot like Vegas (where I flew in from), but much more humid. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  In my junior year of high school, I had a phase of telling everyone about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a sewing machine before, but I was armed with the false confidence gained

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  Among the many classes I took this semester, I ended up taking two ... .[/annotation] In the process, I ended up doing a variety of creative projects ... them together. I told the director I was willing to sing basically

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  I — all of Class of 2019 — had been looking forward to this day all semester. I even downloaded a countdown tracker on my phone, reminding me every time I turned on my phone the number of days until Delivery. It

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  of art. I realized this last year as a high school senior when I was ... , highlighting my accomplishments, challenges I'd overcome, my individuality, and ... ways of the humblebrag, I was challenged. In addition, I was confronted

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  amazing people, and remember that I wasn't alone in this very male ... (and fellow MIT alum) Megan Smith.   But here's the thing.  I'm kinda old.  I graduated 1.5 years ago, and originally applied to MIT in

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014