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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, Seattle i am a mountaineer...

  

  first week here. People are in general really nice and the food, so far ... mid-sixties and seventies most of the time with gentle sea breezes. It ... generally friendly. The city as a whole (as well as the Amazon campus) is very

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  the scene. The table, first of all, had to be made. We used a roll of ... and collaborate with several of CAVS’s visiting artists. The first ... tour, and we landed the front page of the next issue of the Tech. Photo

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  am planning to take AP Calculus BC this year. On the first day of our ... optional interview claims to be the part of the admissions step that can help ... the resources to teach it. Would MIT distrust the score because of that

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

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  across the Web piecing together fragments of the 100K's rich history has been so much fun that I lost track of time.   The competition ... about the MIT startup community. One of the projects I'm co-leading is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  some photos of the magic that I worked in my room. First, some before ... longest stage of the whole process by far): And then, after some painting ... stuff. As its number may imply, it's the first Mechanical Engineering

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal ... of admissions decision letters. Joanne writes: Having worked in the admissions office for a million years, currently serving as the director of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  pressing leaves between the pages. I was always late, especially to first ... fiction. I'm on the third draft of my first novel, which is a ghost story ... .) The house is very old and it has a lot of doors. (The first floor

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  Boston Public Library - Venue of the Class of 2020 Ring Delivery ... ’t believe that 3 whole semesters have come and gone and the fourth is almost ... below). Side Note: Allan is not in the first few (because we don't like

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  Every so often, during the Q&A portion of an MIT information ... hair-pulling by even the brightest students. But in the rare cases of ... suicide. Neither academic rigor nor course of study are among the top risk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  seems I have no choice other than to make the best of the situation. My ... . I'm an official MIT freshman now, a proud member of the Class of 2011 - but most of the time I still like to think of myself as a normal guy who

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  mess in the beginning of the school year and, in hindsight, I should have gone to CAPD in the beginning of the year. At this point in time, I wasn ... students are even given the day off of classes to go. I had prepared the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  it to the last page of the novel. The last song. The last sentence. The ... application. In the span of a lifetime, two years is really not that long. And ... . The list of internship applications I need to fill out. The morning

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  Pistol this quarter, and I'm also enjoying it. :) For most of the first ... , frequenting them in cycles like what I did in the first half of this week. I ... working this hard the first half of this week. I was leaving on a MUN

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  of the only hub of activity for miles, I waited. I was crouched, poised ... coordinated a flanking attack of the enemy. They fought valiantly to repel our ... decisively took out the last enemy unit. The whistle blew. "The score of the

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  ” is October 24th, which is when the first paragraph was conceived in a ... today, I walked onto the MIT campus for the first time and nearly hated it ... , drippy weather at the time with hardly an ounce of sunlight to spare, and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  (after having let us have a crack at it first) of the same documents that ... her treatise on the formation of the Constitution of United States ... research on colonial United States up to the Declaration of Independence and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  after the first week, half of the freshman class has been romantically ... rigorous intro physics class) showed me the multiple pages upon pages of work ... morning, and strolls through rows of dark offices. And there are the "crust

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  opening of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace in 1999 (the first day ... won't run in the event of rain. The whole thing is very well done ... Like many of you, I caught Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  realization is a blurred, murky grey. i first heard the term “fear of mis ... a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note ... outline the rest of my day, but a [annotation note="i've gotten the freshman

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  part of the Class of 2011? Did you dance? (I did!) One year ago, I hadn ... . But somehow, that day was the first day we actually began talking about ... stood there in front of the mailbox, on the street, screaming my head off

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006