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• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person to identify the source of this wisdom. Ruth, you're not allowed to play ... . ----------------------------------------------- I'm not usually the kind of person who wonders what fun tastes like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer conditional admissions?

  MIT doesn't offer any special or conditional admissions. All first-year applicants fill out the same undergraduate application and meet the same testing requirements.
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  swung around and spun each other very fast. The tire swing reminded me of ... air. Trapeze has a really satisfying learning curve the first few months ... . After a late night of work, the trapeze is finally flight-ready!  

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  the chance to fly faster than the speed of sound, pull more Gs than any ... and exciting life. When I first signed up for ROTC, I thought of it ... all of the "leadership positions" that I had held in high school. After

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  the plethora of information that has made its way into the gentle folds ... last but not least: the abundance of information that is shared with all ... flying at an altitude of 141 feet at the ground speed of 3.1 miles per hour

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  the next day I could do it no more. Spurts of productivity came at ... to doubt the days of hazy exhaustion could end. Then I got a 20% on my first MIT math exam. On the same day, both my math professors brought up

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first ... "soda". Some people said "pop" (I'm still unclear on what region of the ... prison system in Georgia and the benefits of rehabilitation, and the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  challenge of obligation. I invited members of the EESA (Ethiopian ... of the people I refer to as “international”, though, have a very ... the U.S. and some other places, of taking history as Facts with a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  difficulty trusting people. I’m spending the first half of Spring Break in New ... reasons that this particular mistake happened, including the eclipse of ... , staring at the soft eggshell paint of my ceiling and pondering my exam

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  , chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat ... /GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the prehistoric year of 2015 when college decisions were delivered not through the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  current and alumni bloggers in celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the ... ’m over on the West Coast, at Stanford, where I just finished my first year of medical school and absolutely loved it. In the past, I’ve had a lot

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  Parker (Executive Director of the MIT Global Education and Career ... the agonizingly stressful yet undoubtedly invaluable process of ... sits on the side with a pile of green things in front of her. She's very

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  surprise to any of you that my first (and likely only) appearance in our school newspaper is in the sports section. And hey, you saw it here first ... helped my chances that I live within 20 feet of the news, sports, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

    In the midst of some version of the thesis struggle described in ... our calendars strain under the weight of obligation. Spring is short ... the beauty and promise." Today was the first really warm day. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  me. Even in high school, I'd go through the first two days of classes ... chillness progresses through the semester (a harsh winter of studies and ice ... following: These are the contents of a care package I got in the mail this

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  events!!!! But first I want to give you the scoop about how gay things are ... the first and oldest lgbtq+ club on campus! I’m like half involved (um yeah...that’s the most apt way to put it haha), and we do a bunch of cool

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) (complaining about the ratio of male to ... home the night before my first J-Lab oral exam and found a sweet note on ... and three additoinal pieces of chocolate to the door. Again, I'm an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  -and-outs of making a film—from the very beginning of storyboarding and ... more modern tech in the form of a Canon 70D. For our final project, we ... film in the midst of trying to finish my other classes

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  genres of music, clothing, and stories that are unique to the African ... confronted with a world of people I had never related to. A majority of the ... the default language of the office. At lunch, I would sit and watch as

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  because 1. I was sick for the first two weeks of the semester and 2. I fell ... did not know what was going on for the first three weeks of this ... credit limit next fall.   I had a bit of a rocky start in the class

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020