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• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  on behalf of MIT Admissions. I'll explain how FIRST and KC are ... : every year, in January, a star-studded team of engineers on the Game ... against each other on a small, enclosed field, roughly the size of a small

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  't really find a lot of recent content on Random (because Lydia was our main ... all of the floors I could possibly live on. Should I live on the ... wanted to live on Clam, the loudest, rowdiest, coolest bunch of people you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  I have read slightly over 200 pages’ worth of papers this week. I procrastinated 115 of them until the day before I had an assignment due on said ... hanging on to my train of thought when other people are also injecting their

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  big city lights and into the "suburbs" of Cambridge (which is where MIT ... campus). CAMBRIDGE ON CAMPUS BAHFest This April, I attended my third BAHFest (Festival of Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses), “a celebration of well

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  of organizations that she’s worked on and for. So she is kind of this ... If you haven’t been following the results of the most recent LEGO ...  recently won (!!) with a set of extraordinary women in NASA. Maia is currently

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  laughed, turning and flagging down the guy perched on top of the wall, who ... on later, when the flash-bang chaos of REX and Orientation ends. So ... party raged on. Tech-y house music thumped through the disgustingly humid

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Collection of Curious Creatures at the MIT Zoo terrasaurs, quetzals, and portal cows, oh my!

  

  There was another hack on campus this morning! This time, it would ... the imagined animalistic avatars of some MIT courses, programs, and ... , and that none of them were harmed in the making of this hack.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  of pressure on the upper and lower surface of a wing. 2:30pm- I run to catch a glimpse of a Bell 429 that is said to be on Brigg's Field ... often on a Friday, the Office of Minority Education holds TGIF's with food

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  about, but if you tell me, I will, but my lack of blogging is not the intention of this article. Instead, hopefully, I can be the umpteenth person ... on the weekend. With that said, I began applying to colleges where I

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  there is a sort of coordinate system for buildings on main campus, and you ... out of 7.28 (Molecular Biology) at 1 PM, stopped by the lab for about 15 ... the Boston Public Gardens. There's more to see when there's not snow on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as ... 've concocted so far. 1 box of questionable purpose (If you're wondering, the ... marginally better than party balloons.) 1 night of fireworks, thunderstorms

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  you through the unsatisfying yet convenient medium of cell phone ... minute. Either the ounce of fluff in its jaws was somehow dulling its survival instincts, or it was wondering if I was made of the same material. I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  first two terms here. If you get a 5 on both parts of Physics C, you get credit for 8.01. Nobody knows why you need a 5 on the E&M portion of ... NOTHING! However, I got a 5 on Physics B and was kind of bored in 8.01. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  's a lot of emphasis on being prepared for the MCAS exam, and that ... successful outcome of the education system, and my thoughts on education are ... [/annotation] this semester, and part of the class involves observing at local

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  prince of the Fire Nation. This has been his life’s goal on the order of ... way of showing the audience how painful it is to change on a deep ... thinking much of it. But now, on the cusp of turning 20 and having rewatched

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  , 16,000 water bottles on 16,000 chairs. The theme of the day was ... of the world", but really, it was more akin to, "Ponchos". We awoke to ... the landscaping, man), it does put a little more pressure on the staff

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  ” Working WAY too long on updating and changing the formats of our portfolios ... times  Going to pilates with our mom a couple times Going on lots of ... attempt to not fall off the face of the blogs, here is a list, in no

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  Kresge Oval on MIT campus. The MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and ... picture that worked.   Meanwhile, on the other side of the ... Earth. To someone standing on Earth, the Moon would cover the Sun. In a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  , however, I ended up on the opposite side of Mass Ave from my building, and ... held opinions on what kind of cleats I should get, comment below or ... Ave Bridge into Boston. I planned to run a quick errand on Newbury St to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  on the waitlist to about 500 people, and many of those people accepted ... can then choose to accept our offer (it is an understood part of ... committee worked hard over the course of several days to determine how many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007