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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  Racing, Bodensee Racing, Greenteam, Rennteam, and TU Fast for spending time ... friends and I traveled to Europe for a different sort of attraction: single ... Formula SAE – SAE stands for Society of Automotive Engineers – teams from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  present have done for us! Also *virtual hugs* for being our audience! It ... ! That’s some pretty new territory on these blogs, but for us it ... like to call it) for all of high school, and we’ve been twins, well, our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  possible. You can imagine how disconcerting this can be for a social ... of the MIT blogs you probably have an affinity for math.) In an effort ... quantity. For the purposes of this entry we will apply the concept of LΔ to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  time dilation to the Infinite, and beyond

  

  . My saving grace for the past few weeks has been MIT time. Every class ... Mechanics) for two weeks now (and I haven’t been late at all, thanks to MIT ... here. I’ve started to use Google Calendar for the first time, and now

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  inside joke turned into a source of pride for not only the fraternity and MIT, but for all of Boston, and it was soon commemorated as a public ... , fast forward all the way from 1958 to 2023. How did I end up here on this

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  ever since I got back from my trip home for winter break. It's making me ... used to how quickly life can change, even if the anticipation for the change has been building for months or years. I knew months ago that my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  was for grad students/postdocs/researchers/profs to nEtwORk, but I was ... a staple for the part of China my dad is from. The food was great, but ... working closely with this past year. We chatted for a bit, also commenting

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  of beds dropped on the side of the road, cheap furniture selling fast ... besides, there are so many Zoom gatherings for frosh and upperclassmen to ... four months or maybe twelve, I will call this place home. For now, I am

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  ’s start with high school. For us, MIT was our dream school. We obsessively ... other schools, and for the first time in high school, we did. When we ... to us, and maybe something we’d even want to major in. Fast forward to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  coupons attached to one of our refrigerators and an entire system for ... Beantown outings. So you can imagine how big a deal it was for us when the ... school’s build team for robotics). Her focus in the world of computer

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  the day I finally arrived on Earth, my patience had fast vanished, which ... profile. My parents and siblings know all too well that when waiting for ... important day in your memory, at least for a while. The moment before you see

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  understanding this. Yay brains! Yay neurons! You have them to thank for all those things you take for granted – consciousness, your ability to store memories ... neurons for permitting me to learn about... 8.286: The Early Universe Look

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  to some fixed point on Earth, you're all moving - and fast. It's all ... memory. Set a reference frame there for now. What do you see? In one of my ... , "Well, what good was it for?" If you're on the waitlist, you might not

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  tunes a couple years ago. (For fans of alt-rockers like Franz Ferdinand ... ’t becoming paralyzed as fast as he wanted them to. So this happened. This is ... the mechanism. And then you take it for granted. Which is lame. To

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  -mate caught my eye. I nodded. He threw a low, fast forehand, which began curving ... way into the lobby, pausing for a moment to catch my breath, a puddle ... upperclassman at a lunchtime barbecue. I apologized to her for not talking much

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  to use a CNC lathe and a CNC mill. For those of you who are ... /plastic/anything that needs to be shaped into a part. A lathe is for radially symmetric features and spins your part really fast, letting you touch it with sharp

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... posted here.  For me, Educational Counselors or ECs are a special group of ... questions you have about why MIT could be a good choice for you. They are

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  die for Pool and Pye” (Ithiel de Sola Pool and Lucian Pye were two high-profile scholars at the Institute’s Center for International ... when MIT decided to “divest as appropriate for those portfolios to

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  time-management skills, which is why it took so long for me to finally ... even some wild animals. It all sounds really fantastic to me. But for ... them. [Also, for those of you at MIT, the Muslim Student Association is

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  only has space for 5 activities! This is not a coincidence… I’ve known so ... for up to 15 activities. I get really miffed when I tell an admissions ... what’s *really* important to me. For example, I was invited to join the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007