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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  perfect 1/8 of a sphere, which allows it to be supported at only three ... , and you'll get all the way to Downtown Boston and Back Bay. Travel to ... Court still has a downward slope in the middle, which was meant to be the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  class I instead have to be at work by 7:30 AM. I work in Rhode Island ... 't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... to find ways to occupy my time, they found me. Trips to Boston, chillin

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  New England Patriots, my family has raised me to be a die-hard Seahawks ... heartbroken over this (unless I really want to be a jerk). If anyone wants to ... , another calendar, and some cabinets), feel free to ask and I’d be more than

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  of 57 pictures I took on the way to IHOP, here are the six good ones ... very underutilized angle for pictures." --Ruth. I actually wanted to be ... on some Course X exams. If you happen to be in the Boston area this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  My cat is a little ball of static lately. It can't be too much fun to ... heart. There are much easier ways to fulfill requirements. Yesterday, I ... 've figured it out. Then I biked what seemed to be forever across what I was

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  . Most of this advice is paraphrased from people that I consider to be mentors, because I think I'm still a bit too young and foolish to be ... important thing: You're going to be okay. It may not feel like it right now

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  entire semester to pursue that question by designing an experiment ... didn’t take me very long to figure out what my project would be. When I ... advertised and if they were to be trusted with a soccer player’s brain safety

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  Act of 1957 by speaking in from of the Senate for 24 hours and 18 ... moved back to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I'm here for three days trying to ... airport in Philadelphia, and from there I'll be in the aeroplane over the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  undertaken by prospective students that ultimately leads to a college choice ... essay is really an opportunity to focus on who you are and the ways in ... -written applications) to a largely digital one (with applications and supporting

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  . You’d think it's an insane amount of time to be doing this, but it’s not ... example, this pantoum, written by Heather '13— “Institvte” To learn anything at MIT you must be willing to ask the difficult questions that

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  of being more preferred by the other players, so I decided to pick only ... managed to place [annotation note="To be completely accurate, I actually had ... characteristic). Then, this score will be used to rank you against all other

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  stage and compete to be the year's top poets. MIT was even lucky to host ... 't end up feeling that way, then reach out to people - you will find ... you can count on to keep your mind where it needs to be. Then, once you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  that when you come to MIT you'll be moving to a different area code and ... to be offering this $200 rebate promotion on a wide selection of phones ... 'll be able to figure it out. Well, that's my experience with cell phones

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  morning (Pacific time). During that time, I was scheduled to be at a day ... thrill of waiting for the admissions results page to load by proxy, via my ... me, it might be a good idea to plan this one ahead. But to each their

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  If you weren't aware, REX (Residence EXploration) is going to be in ... workarounds had to be made. There is still a structure that rolls and coasts ... , and you can be damn sure there's going to be an epic roller coaster next

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  ’t make a specific choice when I think I need to make it, there will be a ... instructions that I would need to follow in order to be sure I follow the best ... that reality isn’t supposed to be like a Hollywood movie where every

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  not sure that I would want everything to occur the exact same way that ... 't know about it as much as I did computer science, so I wanted to be "safe ... apply to be members of the Student Advisory Group to the Corporation

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  if you are going to be assigned to a non-RBA dorm. That way, you ... to be a junior next fall. My schedule for next fall will not have any A ... classes, we cannot expect you to take them. Also, not being in the Intel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  to be a professional clown? Absolutely not. But now you can say that ... experiences that have somehow managed to weasel their way into my permanent ... nowhere to be found. To make a long story short, a store employee found

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  way things are going to be. This focus on doing research that's likely ... to be my biology advisor (if you have two majors, you get two advisors ... finish the project by the time I graduate, I get to write the first draft

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006