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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  year starts with 1,100 studious new freshmen who are ready to experience ... : Exhibit A Jon is the one closest to you, sitting at his computer after ... Exhibit B. Exhibit B Then BAM!!!, like a kick to the face delivered by

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  sits on three fiberglass poles which are attached to hinges on a moving ... , instructions come from the phone on how to operate the AED, call 911, deliver CPR ... develop a product based on a theme: this year, it was "Rough, Tough, Messy

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  than happy to take a Target trip on a Saturday or something. My ... , but I do have a couple of things to say about starting college ... is how to design a robot, or how to calculate the thermodynamic

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  started off at MIT, I thought that the only way to learn was to take a bunch ... wants to make a decision like that assuming that it would determine the ... think scaling back was a good idea for me. I was able to devote a lot more

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  more without working over time. The problem seems to be a lack of executive functioning: a (relative) inability to follow-through on the idea, i ... not a brain in a vat put on the earth to do math at things in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  years that this room has lived i've only been here to bear witness a ... right now i felt the need to do this because i will miss you, in a way ... anything else, is kind of a big deal to me this is just to say, i'm gonna

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  are as a person, and what you were put on this earth to do. It’s a fact ... (Come to the 3rd floor of the Student Center at 12 noon on Friday of ... Weekend, but to start your academic and life voyage as a freshman this fall

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  no more than an inch or two of snow at a time, figuring out how to stay ... that were born in a six-foot pile of snow, feel free to share your own ... cold air puts a lot of unnecessary pressure on your lungs. I wear an

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in ... was our turn to fly again, we flew the untimed cargo mission, carrying a ... into the lawn to the sound of a collective grimace from the crowd. At

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Sunday Everyone Go read Marilee's post... NOW.

  

  have done so, and have decided not to do a post of my own, because you ... desperately to get my kids to remember who I am, I logged in to publish an "I'm excited for everyone to get their mail this week!" post. In my in-box was

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  CL South junior goes to MIT a year early Date March 27, 2006 By KAREN ... admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - as a high school ... days a week to ride Champagne, a 10-year-old Dutch Warmblood that she

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

  Selection Day 2

  

  discussion without needing to resort to a formal "vote." In the very rare ... stack for another subcommittee to decide on. Then we take the next case ... early to tell. After we finish with selection, there's still a lot of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  two weeks of class at mit doesn't mean you get to catch up on the stuff ... ago. i'm going to have to deal with it for a few months. the internet ... it done in time, but that left me no time to give a good go at 6.006. i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Only a few more days of waiting...

  

  shortly thereafter. I'm pleased to let you know that we're on schedule to ... will be mailed via postal mail a few days later, most likely on Monday ... check your decision online, you will need to have registered for a My

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  special privileges such as first dibs on food and a special seat outside of ... , we had a greeter at the door to welcome them to our hall. Most of us ... This past Friday was the nth annual Tetazoo faculty dinner -  a great

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  ; according to a local, lol). Basically, they're these dual hills on the ... hour on foot after leaving Mission Dolores, I made it to the main viewing area on the mountain, where there's a big parking lot for your car if you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  just cover it up with the confidence of facts. Fact: I am on track to ... . Fact: Learning is a process, not a competition, and I’m excited to be ... way that I related to quite a bit: she personified imposter syndrome as

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  sometimes get a bad rap with regards to social interactions.  We ... Charm School, a series of classes during IAP that aims to help members of ... about carrying my own DSLR while wearing a suit and tie.  The guy next to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 1 The first winning entry in the photo contest. What a view!

  

  The Orientation photo contest is off to a great start. The first photo comes to us from freshman Arya '10, an international student from ... half. What a view! (Click on the photo for a zoomed-in view)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  , they needed some condoms to play a joke on him or something. They were ... Boston, I'll find you a place to stay and show you around and we'll all ... really expect to happen. So, I was sitting at work on Friday afternoon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005