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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  experience was one of the most liberating, invigorating, and awe ... blogger Sam, and at the awesome Battle of the Bands event on the last night ... reminded me of Zeppelin and other classic rock staples) was the inspired

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  tippy and… wait… yes, you read right, I LET GO OF THE RUDDER!! OH NO! So ... straightened out, and I got my bearings and looked up to the front of the boat ... managed a tack turn by wedging the slack of the rope between my knees, and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  ? Inspired, Adelaide and I proceeded to spend the rest of the semester ... tons of fluid mechanics here and am really getting into the idea of ... , or something. I'm not very far from "the real world," as they say, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  of SK LATE NIGHT First, you take the Night Market, a celebration of Asian culture though performance and food, and you boil 3 handfuls of the ... in my first round of exams (don’t panic, I got above average on the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  the clock at MIT and getting several full nights of sleep a week at ... of those too) and the less exhaustive selection of student groups meant ... were nearly impossible to guess... First Row 1: Ortaköy Mosque and the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  a bit of Boston- and when the cold October winds blew, they gave me ... this time I read them imagining myself as one of the students here. I ... application season, and if so, then this post is for you! First I’d like to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  obscene hours of the morning to attend a 2 hour long double lecture. And you ... streamlined design of the tip to minimize drag, the payload inside the nose and ... stability. He talks about the 120 degree separation of the fins and their

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  introduce myself: Name? Theo. Year? First-Year/Frosh/The Young One ... theo if he was younger than most of the admissions blog readers. to which ... since they’re like, two out of the top three declared courses"]Course 6s

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  my eyes to the intricacies and mind-blowing consistencies of language…and ... . EVER. After the first paper, everyone in the class found a speaker of a ... . Phew. That first one WAS just a fluke. And then I looked at the comments

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  First, an aside Today, Adam and I were on the subway heading to the ... , and I would have been focused on my grades to the neglect of my ... for me both in terms of the way I was taught to be a first

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  #NoBanNoWall

  

  contact David Elwell, associate dean and director of the International ... email David Elwell, Associate Dean and Director of the International ... the members of the MIT community: The Executive Order President Trump

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 29, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  time I arrived, and the wait time total - the amount of time that passes ... One of the interesting things that I do as a commonplace concert goer ... first come first serve, meaning the earlier you get there, the better view

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of Portland, Oregon, the whitest major metropolitan area in the country. And it ... exposed. For a moment, I was reminded of the giddiness of first love, how it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  , and this awesome video of whale watches off the coast of Boston last ... CMS, and I introduced him to Scot Osterweil, Creative Director of the MIT Education Arcade and creator of the famous Zoombinis puzzle and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  reading the rest of the email, and forwarded it to esp. it looked like the ... upon hours of planning and effort to get the programs running this far ... hundreds of emails. and somehow, although it felt bad that the programs were

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  ): You'll say hi to the friendly receptionist and then sit down, in one of ... to see the hustle and bustle of MIT. Weekends are a special case, you ... parties and not a lot of homework-doing in the evening, so you will probably

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  friends who were in the area, like junwon and victor. for the first week of ... 's see, december. towards the end of the semester is the time when all the performance groups do their semester performances, and i don't go to a lot of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told ... evidence of mold? Do the bathroom fans and windows work? Are all the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  Freudian terror. Flash back to the real world, where school is still kind of hard despite having little in the way of required classes. A classmate and I each spent four hours writing three 12-bar arrangements of a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  balancing work and fun because fun is the seasoning of life but needs to ... uncover the truth and beauty behind depriving ourselves of sleep to slog ... -nerds-turned-rappers soul-searching through the streets of NYC and complaining about their

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011