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• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  popeyes and quickly’s with my mom, who told me to be cautious about ... write a post "about being someone rejected from mit & learning to ... who are seeking to make a decision about your MIT future by May 1, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  , although we’re cautioned against that as children. It’s important not to be ... , and I go all the way to the top. There’s a lovely view of the evening ... a strange feeling of melancholy grit. Like being determined to keep

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  chicks about to get eaten by a petrel until a tiny Adelie penguin runs in ... for being an eighty year old AAAA). Jenny> “Palace/Curse" by The Internet Nora> “Georgia” by Vance Joy. Trying to learn it on guitar. 6

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2017!

  

  dragon staff 3) It's time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to let your dreams TAKE FLIGHT What does it mean to be an admissions ... . MIT operates by setting a very high standard of admission to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  decent background in calculus, I would be able to get through it quickly ... drinking it every night because I quickly found that it was a great way to ... sadness by not responding to anyone for a week and playing a LOT of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  of my guitar playing." Sound files will need to be sent in by mail so ... unheeded by the actual office." Additional materials should always be sent to ... possible to really be too honest? How far should I really go into expressing

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  portfolios at the Bay Area Maker Faire. Along the way I got to meet up with Ari ... MIT to help start the school), which aims to be an alternative to the ... Michael & me (PC to Michael, can't you tell by how nice the camera is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  wheel has to be removed to be able to get in or out of the car. Also ... those achieved by F1 cars. To keep the car firmly on the ground, the body must be aerodynamically designed to add a 1000 kg downforce. With this

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ]. One way to “derive” the formula for the area of a circle is by taking ... [/latex] (true by definition — a tau-tology, if you will), it’s important to ... can count to, and thus the final point i will be making"]3[/annotation

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  brought nice shoes but there was no way I was going to wear them all day, so ... . Moment of truth, time to see if we were actually going to be attending Toy ... two over 18?" Right, I don't think I mentioned this. You have to be

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  return. (It would be a good way to end this story by saying "and THAT ... having to be taken away by the very ambulance I am working by telling her I ... , before remembering there is studying to be done and cooking can take a lot

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  change is so quick you can't even process what's happening. Flashback to ... that next year, I'd be alone. And as selfish as it was, I began to ... used to how quickly life can change, even if the anticipation for the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  , and Chris M.!): M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree By TAMAR LEWIN ... life would be like here, and that was part of why I wanted to come." Ben ... choose. "You want people who can communicate and who are going to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  , but there's just so little time to write when I could be sleeping. So ... gazillion ways around this system, and thus managed to get 9 beach balls and 2 ... dolphin smuggling was a bit more covert. There was no way to sneak them in

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  everyone else at MIT who wants to be able to grow old in a liveable world —  in this topic, I wanted to make a quick blog post letting everyone know ... Science and Engineering. According to its website: Climate change is the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  advisor)'s office on Tuesday in search for the answers to life, the universe ... like 2.671, 2.ThU, 2.009, and 2.087 (which can be replaced by 18.03, if ... apostrophe!"  You're also thinking, "what does a second-year know about being a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  ! I traveled all the way to California to visit my boyfriend, Herbert M ... /JPL sign, though. After visiting JPL, we hurried on our way to take a quick tour of Caltech's campus and then head out to Los Angeles. Caltech

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  several "stations" around the dining hall. Indeed, an easy way to level up ... combinations across different stations. Although they are designed to be self ... a rush, I find it helpful to do a quick scan of the entire dining hall

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  place at MIT. What good is it to be at the best school in the world if you ... must be to run an Instagram page, or how quirky I am for learning about social media. I know it's a stupid thing to be upset about, and I should

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  I had any luck at all I might be able to clear this line by 9:50 PM ... of the carrier, but you should be able to figure it out easily enough ... representative for assistance.” To be honest, I’m never sure what the point of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009