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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the ... -California border. A restless curiosity sheltered by walls of mountains gave birth to ... , nudged by teachers to bring home the win "because I could," without much

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to ... that we'd have to move out by November 25, two Wednesdays from now. This ... anything, trying to get things done but never really starting. In the process

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  had the chance to learn some web dev with my friends, meet industry mentors, and tinker around with lots of new shiny gadgets, technologies, and ... (delicious) food, exchange ideas, and work together to build exciting tech

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  closer in the future. I decided right then and there I was going to get a ... VR. If you guys want to get involved as well, I suggest buying a pair ... Enterprise and challenge participants to dare to take the steps necessary to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  guys, if you get into MIT there's a high likelihood that you'll get to ... 's going to walk in, kick open your stall door, plop down on your lap and ... polite and everybody gets along alright. You may not be used to having to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  On Sunday, a coworker and I decided to be tourists in our own city ... have rented by the hour from Bike and Roll? I think not. The ... to walk our bikes down a steep set of stairs, across a path underneath

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick update

  

  significant updates will be reviewed by an admissions officer. I'm trying to ... lots of calls today, with many references to my blog. Below are the FAQs ... don't have to send in the midyear report? A. No, you must send in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  As my second semester at the Institute draws to a close, I've been ... came to MIT, but I had few opportunities to formally pursue it. This ... It [program description] MIT CodeIt is an outreach program which aims to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  between urgent reminders to please for god's sake do your psets you dirty ... 'm getting to a point where I'm content with the amount of effort I'm doing ... many responsibilities. I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you're

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  You should use your current, legal first and last name when filling out those fields on the application. This is important so that your application matches your financial aid records. We will also ask you what you
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  I like eating. I like eating a lot. By which I mean both that I ... posting it up on the web. I polished off an apple at the end to keep the ... . I used to say "little" brothers but now they're both bigger than me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  traveled to Europe from the US by steamship Times in running events were ... Since everyone seems to have Olympic fever these days (Michael Phelps ... likely to be in the Science Olympiad or the International Math Olympiad

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  to the new coordinates aware of the slowing of time due to the ripples ... and walked home under soft, acidic streetlights to an empty house with ... .] consciousness at the scale of gravity, if neurons could tune to the fine geometric

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years ago, of course) and it was sunny, warm, and breezy, so I decided to bike up Massachusetts Avenue to see just how far it goes into Boston. Turns

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  part? Easily carried by one person My team decided to go a bit of a ... frame, with only the deck left to complete.   A team effort to get ... In order to graduate from Course 1, you have to take a class called 1

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  to further contribute to that by leaving only a very small number of ... other FAQ I've been getting is, why so few EA admits? 200220032004 EA ... committed to admitting no more than one-third of our class during early action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  Support MIT Sports!! Vote for MIT Crew!

  

  by going here and voting on the right hand side. This site is a little smarter than some other ones we've come across, so we could use your support. With all the recent varsity team stuff, it can't hurt to show our teams a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  of taking operating systems. by tuesday, i knew i wanted to [annotation ... last thursday night was pretty stressful, trying to finish the ... 'd even started the lab early this semester, even gone to office hours. it

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  began to make such an awesome toy. Well, we began the design process by ... Llama to make what we like to call: The Equalizer. -Cue awesome sound ... blasters connected to a backpack which served as a massive ammo hopper

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Adventures in Time Travel (in the Library)

  

  Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke in the Hayden library stacks this ... ’s observations on climbing plants and the similarity of their strategies to those of climbing animals. There are also new recipes for poisons, thoughts

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 1, 2014