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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  elections meeting, an overnight shift, a trip to New York, another exam ... allowing myself a ten minute study break before I have to go back to reading ... in my first entry as a blogger, I recently decided to write a new blog

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  -kept secret" pointed out by our departing senior—by making public some of the ... genre. Students write a short reaction to each novel, and one short story ... important than ever to look at life from new perspectives, be it the tip of a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  was going to make a joke about how "IM sports" aren't sports you play ... set to a wide range of modern music. We begin by teaching you the calls ... recommend you finish your PE classes by sophomore year, but obviously it's a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  each class's Rat are chosen by a Ring Committee, or "RingComm," a group ... of a big deal around these parts, and wouldn't you know, it happens to ... fools and I make up the 2012 RingComm. We have been seeing each other a

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  -term thinker rolled into one. Thanks to a Concerned Proactive Mentor, I had a ... the subsequent month, and by the end of September I got a ‘pretty good ... !) Applying for an internship is a challenge- actually, applying to anything in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  people spinning at once) per week, and I've been able to make it to a lot ... . Along with my friends and my roommates, I've been on a mission to actually try all the cool places I live so close to! We've seen a live music show

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  checks out. some studies tried to quantify this by making people walk on ... , but also to prevent accidents - i injured my foot last february by ... , the experience did inspire me to learn a lot more about feet and walking

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  . Parents are usually easy to spot for a couple of reasons. First, they all ... 't easy, by any means, but the difficulty seems to come from the fact that ... . Alright, sure, they did bust out a container of liquid Nitrogen to please

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  attention to the ideas, or A* search algorithms from 6.01 that I was too busy ... rail, and is also accessible by bus, although we rode the Red Line to ... allegedy within biking distance, but I’m far too lazy to even purchase a bike

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  .8301] last spring because I had to complete a CI-M by the end of junior year ... 'm not looking forward to! Which is also a first for me. There was always at least ... 've really wanted to take a robotics class. Robotics team was one of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  't want to spend that much time away from mit." i never applied to a misti ... , making friends you see for but a few months. that's what summer camp is ... live within a few minutes walk of each other, ever again. we went to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  'll get to experience a small slice of life at MIT to help make your ... already visited overnight. You'll get to stay with a student, or a house ... opposite perspective - they're worried about going to a tech school because

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... interested in adding a few new winter sports to the mix, and the one I've had ... your feet into that same ice sheet to stand on. Climbing is a motion

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  incredibly happy. I still had to visit and make sure that it was the right ... So I'll admit that I haven't written in a while, and sadly, I have absolutely no excuse aside from the fact that I don't really know what to write

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  find a way to make it work! Otherwise, I plan to just spend my free hours ... night included performances by: 1. Syncopasian: MIT’s East Asian a ... culture 3. A Freshman Skit: performed by the freshmen representatives on CSC

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Introduction To MIT World ...and my blog's first feature: Akamai, Clever and Cool!

  

  My first blog entry! Let me begin by introducing you to MIT World, a ... . With a collection of almost 400 videos, it's a little daunting to pick ... it best to start with a modern day adventure story about a company that

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  .[/annotation] Meanwhile, TurboVote — a software system that makes it easier to register to ... live and vote in Cambridge, there is a [annotation note="MIT is, to my ... to what look to be record highs.  Last week, President Reif sent a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  with MIT's mission to make the world a better place. We deferred ... admission to MIT this year. This is a 4% increase from last year. Since most ... and were not able to be considered. We recognize it's a lot of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  properties or assumptions we can make to simplify our analysis given large amounts of data on a process we want to model, under certain assumptions ... : the mathematical knowhow to take a bunch of scary symbols and boil it

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  Random Hall laundry server that lets you know whether or not to make a trek ... Goldberg-type inventions that MIT students make to complete mundane tasks and ... suite, but the 30-second walk down the hall was a small price to pay for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005