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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  detail like I usually do in my blog entries; rather, I'll just discuss the most interesting events and you can fill in the rest with your overactive imagination. I awoke with a jerk. Finding that the weather report was calling

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  I am writing to announce that, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic ... the [annotation note="This means both prospective first-year and ... sake, but only to the extent that they help us make better decisions for

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  official their fall schedule (add/drop notwithstanding). Tomorrow is the first day of classes, and the first meeting of CMS.614/21W.791 Network ... with the (soon-to-be-introduced) new bloggers for the Class of 2020 to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  and just took in the imagery of the Charles River. The cab driver ... about an old radio that he and his friends found back in the day, turned ... the stereotypes about its prestige, hacks, and even teary stories about

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  Last night the MIT Sport Taekwondo Club sponsored a demonstration by the Korean Flying Tigers, and since half of my floor is in the club, I decided to head down to the athletic center to check it out. I happened to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  The selection process continues here, and there's not much I can ... admits and mailing the early action decisions as soon as we can. I'll keep ... could share in the joy!" Well, now you can share the excitement! [I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  thesis. also the writing is not very snappy oops the soundtrack to this blog is the album Blue Moon Safari by Air and Vegyn :-) Last fall, I ... internship during the daytime hours. I was writing embedded code for hardware

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger ... writings. it is especially strange that many people cite the line as coming from anne frank’s diary, despite the fact that the diary is freely

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  psets and played around in it, demonstrating in a general sense the ... swung around and spun each other very fast. The tire swing reminded me of ... how the process went.   I went to a hippie middle school with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• 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—here are a few of them, organized by class: 21M.401: Concert Choir At the

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

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  comprehend. One such event was my trip across the Niagara Falls border ... ... Like most MIT students, at the start of every semester I make my trip ... /blogs/entry/getting-home-from-the-airport/"]trip;[/annotation]by the time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  This is the fourth and final installment of our sentimental objects blog series, where we describe the random memorabilia that we collected over the school year and that we stored in our memory mushroom. Here are

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

   quizbowl." (In fact, there may be more in the future!) If you already know what ... the ~personal experience~, but basically, the whole big concept of ... and listen to questions, and you hit a buzzer when you know the answer

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  between the fall and spring semester. While some people go off campus to ... follows the same schedule, here is a look back on last Friday. 8:37 - My alarm goes off. Why is the time so oddly specific? Well, truth be told, I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  I know that students on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully this post will be helpful. How does the waitlist work? We are ... of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  year has started off in the same way: "I'm so sorry for having disappeared off the blogosphere!" And it's true - I am sorry! I don't know what ... at least five or six MIT '12s currently in the running for Rhodes

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  I’ve learned more about the inner workings of MIT from my summer job ... for the Institvte! This summer I’m on staff for the Research Science Institute, or RSI, a summer program for rising high school seniors around the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  , not-so-involved career. I got my start in the second half of senior year ... moderately important later). But let's get to the heart of the matter. Let ... pursue the arts any further. Sure, the admissions website has a whole spiel

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  I win. So I apologize for having disappeared (somewhat) off the ... thus far. Here's a brief recap of what I did/what I have plans for in the ... to upload everything yet =/). The Taiwan Phase: May 24, 2008 to July 2

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  One of the first things that I learned about MIT is that everyone ... of the MIT blogs you probably have an affinity for math.) In an effort ... me, you need to know that my definition of LΔ is the following: (L

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007