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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  night after a chapter meeting, they decided they were going to mark the ... yards morphed into a new plan that would introduce the most iconic unit of measurement to date: the Smoot. This new unit of measurement was the height of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  're required to make every call, I gave the new third rider tips on how to hold ... that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... to a bloody pulp with my awesome newfound kickboxing skills. I'd almost

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  I started writing blogposts when I came to MIT. I wanted to be like a ... coffee drinking expert. Plus, I had found a whole new community of people to become a part of. This was the long and short of the story, but for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  Recently, I've stopped listening to new music releases in favor of ... this post: Birth to ??? 5th Grade?: Whatever's on the radio/whatever my ... 're Going Down (this was around 2008). I would then go on to listen to and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  2020 Admitted Student Gatherings Get a vision of your future at MIT

  

  the listing on your MyMIT account for the most up to date information ... With Campus Preview Weekend just a few weeks away (sign up here if ... …but don’t quote me on that. For all the newly admitted students out

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mnemonic Contest Winner Congratulations, Shawn!

  

  Start spreading the news! The new mnemonic for the planets is: My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nothing. Congrats to Shawn for winning! If you'd like to redeem your super awesome prize, email me at

  • by Bryan
  • September 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first time I ever went to New York City it was to see Lucy Lawless play Rizzo in a Broadway production of Grease. After 18 ... , there's nothing like coming home to a pot of boiling beef stew and this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01 ... on the SAT writing section debate, if there really is a debate, but ... understand the claim to not trust it and ignore like a 550, but if you have an

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  was easy to pick MIT. I knew I wanted to attend a school that would not ... from autonomous drones to what I am currently working on in Biomaterials ... required certain backgrounds, there was more than a few that were excited to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  This entry is going to be a completely random collection of things because right now I'm a little too tired to do a coherent entry. The end of ... tend to forget about all the crap that's going on around me and just

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  with the (soon-to-be-introduced) new bloggers for the Class of 2020 to ... live, REX is a great opportunity to find out about the different parts of ... and upperclassmen, and to get a feel for what MIT has to offer socially

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  where you use Arduino to code up a control algorithm for a motor on a ... have languages, we want to think about how, given a string, we would determine whether it belongs to a language or not. Formally, we will create

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  . "This is a great new opportunity. We will be exposed to so many new things," said Taylor. "We are going to a school with the best academics and a ... because MIT is such a great school. "When we were deciding where to go to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application now available Apply now at MyMIT.

  

  ability to track the different parts of your application. On your My ... and binding, and ability to be viewed in a 2-D environment, before ... , you will not be able to create your new MyMIT account and begin your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Application is now available! You can now access the MIT freshman application at MyMIT.

  

  be able to create your new MyMIT account and begin your application ... You can now log onto MyMIT to access the application for freshman admission to MIT. Your MyMIT page includes interview information, personalized

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  . No need to bring the stock of a lifetime on the plane. And once you ... compiled a packing list for students here, to be used with caution. Some ... campus. -- a swimsuit, if you wish to beat the required swim test and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  used to watch Smurfs as a child; I even had the video game on Atari. OK ... ' days of my childhood all in ways related to MIT. Exhibit A: TOMB ... Barracudas anyone? So I got to go to Tomb last Friday for a friend

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  better to do on a Friday night, along with increased risk of heart failure ... research project: 1.Stop reading my blog, open a new tab, go over to the ... who was willing to take on a UROP student during IAP/Spring term, and I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found myself having a lot to say about the impact those classes have had on how I ... , whenever I tell someone that I'm a physics major, I feel the need to somehow

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  from everything you have ever known and loved and to settle into a new ... distinguish a time when I was not trying to convince myself that I actually ... bit of a know-it-all, because come on- who could have it all, as she had

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020