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• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in ... theory) ranged from rubbing dead cats on sticks to pouring super ... education to drinking from a firehose. I'd like to go out on a limb and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  't stifling. Today was stifling. Today was sauna in an oven on the sun. Sweat poured down my face and into every crevice of my body. On top of that, the ... . Darryl and Marvin '10 are working on a project that uses pedal power to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  radio and sound trucks, and going into the camps and putting on plays on ... promotional material, a lot of which we had seen as posters on/above the streets ... trying to get in contact with people on the ground here, so to be offered

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  On the first night of my mandatory vacation, I walked to the beach ... /early/contriving enough to claim their own bedroom. I slept on an ottoman, but it was only ... table were Walt Whitman. The point is, I was on a boat. After docking

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  that it has been a week since I first arrived at MIT. I won't dwell on the sucky-ness of being home, but rather, I'll reminisce on the good ... , after taking a 6-hour red-eye. Even though I was running low on sleep, I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  on forever). I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the next four years in favor of concentrating solely on my classes. To my ... I go rambling on about my own projects, I want you know what you, an

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  Anne Liu and I spent January 7th through January 17th in India on a ... without lanes, fill it to capacity with rickshaws (India’s take on ... been amputated bangs his head on your window. When you go shopping, a

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  20 points on the SAT, I will guarantee you that there is something ... application than to sit in a classroom for 3 hours on a Saturday and pay someone ... they had gotten one more question right on the SAT that could have proven

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  . Before I go on, "hall" means "floor" -- if I ever use one or the other, now ... new to hall, having arrived in a kennel on Delta Airlines from a place ... clueless about what they were like on a daily basis before I moved in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  've already got two other full-length problem sets on my shoulders, while I ... don't want to spend thousands of dollars on a prep course, you can ... drone on about his summer while playing Maroon 5 (which I did) than study

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  , but I was wondering. What's the policy on non-MIT-students being in ... 's knowledge and skills in a hands-on way. Stress something more unique than your stats on your application - good stats speak for themselves, use your

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  , so I put some on. The first piece went on kind of lopsided, so I pulled ... , on to very old pictures: The last lecture of 3.091 is pretty famous ... . Moving on...for my birthday, my mom sent me this sugar filled care package

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  is going on in there, and it's currently completely empty.) Then today ... hands-on, practical experience. I now know how to use a sphygmomanometer ... we did on each other.... :-/ Anyway, tomorrow is dedicated to CPR

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  ready to clean months of caked-on food. I abhor washing dishes in our tiny sink, where more water ends up on your clothes and the counter than on ... college I realized that the dishwasher is on a long list of things that make

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  . My two passions were basketball and programming. I was on the Varsity ... freshman fall.  And now? I am not on the team anymore, and I have no idea ... limited me because I have been rejected from research opportunities on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  work on a simulated robotic arm that can detect and stack cups into a ... Tom Cruise and wrote a 20-page script based on it. The final script is about an alien who crash-landed on Earth, and disguised himself as a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  On Wednesday, we had our second to last game of the regular season ... someone who has been on the soccer team since freshman year, Senior Day has ... gorged ourselves on cake and Chipotle with our families and friends and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there ... with Zimi in quantum, spending inordinate times working on relativity and ... culture of MIT dorms and how they foster a community rely on people who make

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  characters, brushed up on Japanese geography, and drilled myself on the grammar ... drilled on the differences between Japanese and English spoken word. We then ... windows on the first floor. The windows face the river, and the infinite

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  my days are filled with quiet days on a lake, inter-planetary battles ... sparkling and buoyant. I want to find that feeling on whatever of the one ... parents were going to move me in my freshman year, I sat on the brick steps

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024