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• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  and loiter in the airfield for a day or two. Let's be clear--wind is bad ... designed to fly at 20 mph and the wind is 30 mph, your plane will take off ... the end of the day, however, score is divided by aircraft weight--and as

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  . Movie theaters behind Fenway Park: Watched The Deparated, which is a cop ... experiments (e.g. play on the swings!) The waterfront park is across the river from Charlestown, which is home to the Bunker Hill Memorial and USS

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  the blog and immediately told me that we had to make it real. Despite ... folding table, a giant BLOOD MOON FEST banner, and access to the Simmons ballpit. What I needed was supplies to make pies, something to hold the food

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  worry as you guys do. Getting into graduate school in biology is not, in ... school than it is to get into PhD programs in biology. And because not as ... . This does not really make me feel all that much better. I get the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  the spot, so they can opt in (or not) on their own time and comfort ... ,"[/annotation] which is a direct rip-off of my pal Valerie's recent Zine projects. The ... 've had to come up with. [annotation note="is this too ominous? or the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there really a swim test?

  education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement and the eight point General Institute Requirement. The swimming ... out. Courses generally meet twice a week for 40 minutes. The program
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  every morning or arguing over whether Maryland is in the south or not, I ... !!!!!!! Lol...... Why the caps, to be honest, I am not really sure. I was just ... way that may not come off as conventional. Nevertheless, it is who I am

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  , courageous students need not apply. Last night, after the requisite parties ... -pun intended). However, I see now that Anna is committing the crime of writing ... 've written below is just the perspective of two long-winded MIT students, and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  Weiss Lab and Glenn Lab. She is a sister of the Sigma Kappa sorority and ... International Linguistics Olympiad. He is a brother of the Alpha Delta Phi ... Yesterday, the Thiel Foundation announced the first class of the "20

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  find, to paraphrase Shakespeare, that the world is your oyster... I hope ... repeatedly in your lives is how to use the talent and the education that you ... not be well-marked, the scaling of some predetermined ladder. It may

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  wafer re-enters the system with a higher priority each time it is ... Economics, is doing her senior thesis project on re-entry systems through the ... engineering and is the associate director of the LMP. To analyze these systems

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  the not-so-intact sweep needs to be replaced. This is done by taking out ... letter, tΞp is the co-ed fraternity formerly known as t ... Ξp is what it sounds like: a week dedicated to working on the house.  t

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  as well). I'm taking the EMT class, which is not only an amazing deal ... why this post is so late.. I'm really tired by the time I make it ... remember is that you're not evaluated on anything alone. Yeah, it's great if

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  through it but this weekend that was not the case. The trip back was ... . ’14 has titled “All Aboard the Rage Bus” and which a few days later is hopefully more funny than unhappy. Here it is: At a pit stop, the lady who

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  , everything I've written is subject to change. I'm not ruling out the ... it is perhaps the fact that I wouldn't mind staying in academia forever ... i. before MIT The truth is, my scientific "career" started a while

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  love about math is that we’re all on the same team. Of course I’m not the ... ’s occasionally competition for jobs or prizes, but competition is not the point of ... why they do math and their thoughts on the MIT math department. Here is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  I listening assignments, courtesy of the LLARC. I'm still not very ... I think is a grammatically proper question, but not a socially proper ... was kind of not good; the food was mostly catering, not fancy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  . The statue is not of John Harvard- no one even knows what he looked like ... after a 20-hour flight, badly jetlagged and starving (plane food is not ... [/caption] 2. The subway is awesome, boba tea on the other hand… Since I came to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Getting Back to Normal ...with some help from Macklemore

  

  Concert is not the only venue for major bands on campus (e.g. Nirvana played ... 'll take another step in getting back to normal. Tonight is the annual MIT ... , the Beach Boys, Aerosmith, R.E.M., and more. This year's headliner is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  knowledge and ignorance. My theory is that, at MIT, especially in the first ... at MIT is a great equalizer. If you fall under either of the categories ... not think a low number means failure. It gets better after the GIRs

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018