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• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  ... ...first I tested the water with Bao '07 and Ling '07 (Kendall '07 was taking ... River also runs through the English Garden. It's scenic. And people line up to surf in it. Kind of like the swan boats in Boston Common

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  what...October 2? o_____O One of my favorite stanzas to the Engineer's Drinking Song goes like this: An MIT surveyor once found the gates of Hell He looked the devil in the eye, and said "You're looking well" The

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  /Underdog won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, making her the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a recipient of the Mac ... one of our biggest lecture halls. (Many of the larger freshman classes

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  and on the required tests. She earned an ACT composite score of 32, which included a perfect 36 on the math portion, and an SAT score of 2 ... admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - as a high school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  painter and it wasn't going well - and the more I realized that it was going ... , in exchange for helping take down what's left of the wallpaper in her new apartment and painting there. I, of course, agreed that this was a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  organizations like the Peace Corps and Teach For America. Here's a smapling of ... clear path. But with the right advice and a bit of self-knowledge and ... , are making their way to the largest of MIT's annual career fairs. Today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  first date - a list of things that the male is supposed to do, and a list ... wish the students weren't so weird and nerdy. Both ends of this spectrum ... of Gender and Race) illustrated this point pretty well for me. The

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  Sciences (EAPS) and it’s one of the smallest majors at MIT, despite the ... non-double major in the class of 2022 and physics (course 8) is by far ... us out of the classroom and into the field. During my time as an

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  . I entered the Broadway lottery and won a ticket to one of the less ... was so young and so ready to become the kind of person who lived in New ... "Welcome to New York" as the musical version of a peppermint latte. It was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  are parts 1 and 2 ! As we've described in the first two parts, we have a ... and Tyler from an event the Animation Group hosted. At the end of the ... president of Borderline, Jierui F. ‘20, gave us and the rest of exec at the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  boxes. Each box contains a real number, and each of the advisors must open ... piles and piles of hand-cut confetti. Then came the reversing itself. Eric ... ,” “Time after Time,” and “Rock Around the Clock.” The first session ended up

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  tl;dr: MIT lets you drop subjects basically at the end of the ... Atlanta to attempt to fly back to Boston since essentially all of the flights out of my local airport were cancelled today and I have attendance

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  . And embarrassing. One of the worst parts is when people who believe in ... anyone in the eye again. And then, over empty tubs of ice cream and a ... awards that FIRST offers its teams. I worked my butt off, and the first

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  the first time), and I have a better grasp on the actual stakes of a ... interviews, and . . . Well, you get the point. Sort of wish I had the ... of what my career will look like in the next several years and what I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  destroyed, and I found myself with unexpected free time in the second half of ... into two six-week halves, 6.0001 and 6.0002. My first attempt at getting ... .0001 the normal way and exact my revenge on the placement test that had

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  disasters before, but never of this scale. We got off the plane, and the ... the poorest country in the Western hemisphere - and most of all, how to ... the earthquake hit in January, and is structured around weekly guest

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Faculty Luncheon for Local* Admitted Students *local: from New England or New York, or anyone who just happens to be in…

  Hello, everyone. This is probably the first time anyone has heard of ... our Professors about cutting-edge research, cool discoveries, and all of ... thing is about 2.5 hours in length, and not quite as life-changing as the

  • by mitblogs
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  : Conduct first-hand research on the process by which humans die by freezing. Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... supermarket down the street. Granola bar of unknown provenance. 12:30 PM

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  MIT, and it's inspiring. It gives me hope in a state of the world whose ... -time low in the wake of Senior House and its closure. Classes here are ... the first place, I decided to stay. I lived in East Campus for a year

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  students in a couple weeks, and the point of this assignment is to teach a ... simplify the equivalent of the first 15 minutes of an introductory lecture ... are just the basics of parsing and I already had to let so much

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011