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• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  cash, got strapped to a skydiver, and was pushed out of a plane.  It was ... in a classroom with 4 other guys learning the finer points of how to ... things.  By the end of it I was ready and anxious to actually jump out of

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  rendition of this spiel to the incoming class of 2028… still can’t believe I ... the UA, which is our version of student government—“we work to solve the ... got to take part in with some of my Course X family was a Global

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  've ever wanted to get out of the wind more in my life. While my thick, wooly ... sort of study skills. Little did I know that would come back to haunt me ... April in front of my computer and went through the process of telling MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  I am taking 5 minutes out of my life just to let you all know why I ... another one. But I've run out of actual lines on the sheet, and had to ... tunnel. The reason all of these things need to be done by next Thursday is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!

  

  2005 in Review Being in college manages to teach you a lot of life lessons. Some you would prefer not to learn, but in the long run, I'm sure I'll be better off from it. Here are just a few highlights of what college

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  Very shortly, Sam's Mom and I will be on the road to Cambridge. So, I ... , otherwise it'd be pretty much impossible to adapt to film. Stylistically, it's pretty close to what I imagined the novel looking like. I'm not impressed

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  before we graduated. i haven't talked to any of them in forever and i ... the halfway point of the camp and we were all sad about it being halfway ... from chipotle with the app, i will have enough points to get a free

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Bill Gates It looks like you're trying to inspire philanthropy...

  

  to look at the work of the D-LAB, Jameel Poverty Action Lab, One Laptop Per Child, or MIT's Public Service Center - to name just a few - for ... Bill Gates was on campus today to speak about the need for innovation

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 21, 2010
• FAQ / Transfer

  Are there other classes I should take beyond the recommended coursework?

  While we can't recommend specific classes, you may want to compare the courses offered at your institution to MIT's by referring to the MIT Bulletin (course and degree catalog). You'll find descriptions of MIT
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  their kids start going to school. Many of them believe that a woman must ... number may be attributed to the fact that a similar percentage of ... ." One of my greatest role models is my mother, who went back to work three

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.

  

  , regardless of author. You will no longer have to check each blogger's box to ... section of the site. IMAGE #2: Don't worry - if you happen to like ... new admissions site. I can't wait for this baby to launch! IMAGE #1

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  wouldn't do justice to any of them, so I'm going to write three posts. Here ... pulled on a pair of sweatpants (to protect my legs against the sub ... down her back. Beaming, she asked me to sit on the far side of the room

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an ... you decide to do that, I will totally write music for you." *Cue lots of ... to be doing a lot of commuting. That's right: Hack, Punt, Tool was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the School of Science like?

  The six departments in the MIT School of Science are consistently ... ; Mathematics; and Physics. Members of our community study deep philosophical questions: What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy, which make up 95
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  Welcome to the first of the many blogs I have meant to write but just ... to make. Then, we got to 3D print something of our own! We didn't make it ourselves (due to time constraints), so they gave us a choice of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  "treadmill" that MIT can be: Sometimes it's hard to take a step back. This is ... different or that you'd like to do and learn from), and then going straight ... today, a colleague sent me a news article called From Wilton to Wall

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  's incoming class*, I started to compile a list of memorable ... decided to stick to just restaurants on the Cambridge side of the river ... group name to “Harvard Class of 2013” and posting “Welcome to Harvard!” on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Conner 2 Trip to the North End Bother bother bother bother

  

  A bunch of people from my floor decided to go to the North End to get ... I decided to just film it instead. I present to you, what it would look like if you were an MIT student and went to the North End. Enjoy!

  • by Snively '11
  • February 1, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  way to describe a rotation in 3D is with a matrix – a 3x3 grid of ... ) to get another direction. A sequence of rotations is then equivalent to ... to see here. … yet despite having this evidence in front of us, the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  independent games as a product of wanting to make something you’re proud of and ... the happy expressions of all these people; where learning to play a new ... listen to Ethan Gilsdorf, the author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013