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• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  , on my way to work. And the most complex of these is the traffic circle ... safely on the off-road bike path until I began to approach the circle ... stay almost entirely off the main road for safety, and I get to bike to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  probably depends on the friend group. tiffany is someone i went to middle ... other than the coding portions on psets, and it was hard for me to wrap my ... neighborhood, and the sun is starting to set, casting a golden glow over the well

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  I felt. Igniting civic engagement on campus and advocating for peer to ... things I’ve learned to value, through the eyes of my younger selves to now.   I’m 18 and a freshman. I don’t have time to waste on video games

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  the second time on Killian Court as we celebrate Commencement ... covered, I wrote a very sentimental letter to the Class of 2015 on the ... out into the world, the small ritual of slipping it on reminds me to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  seemed like a great opportunity to get a different perspective on the ... You don’t need me to tell you that the college application process is ... (“You’ve landed on the ‘Guidance Counselors’ Office.’ Collect your letters

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  moment, like a lot of the shit Trump is constantly trying to pull, whether ... in the world. I didn't know that we actually had to debate each other ... note="~25 years according to the instructors"]long running class

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  coming in for the festivities. Most of us know each other as we chose to ... in the news lately because on Thursday, it revived an old MIT/Baker tradition: the piano drop. According to The Tech, "The piano drop was first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  Humanitarian Blog. I wanted mitadmissions.org to have an area devoted to the many people at MIT who are working to change the plight of the world ... Science. It wasn't supposed to be that way because my heart was set on

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  I’ve learned many things after coming to MIT. But among the ... , interact with others, how to be independent, and how to lean on others or ask ... high school was competitive to the point of being toxic, and that it

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  formidable stack on their own. Here’s the last bits of paper. I went to my ... thought the other parts were good. I went to my second one last week, over ... temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  As my second semester at the Institute draws to a close, I've been ... their otherwise action-packed days. We asked them at the end to reflect on ... of teaching opportunities here to make an impact on their peers and the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  of 24 bits to control the second LED, and so on and so forth. After ... , you tilt your phone to get the little jumper dude to jump on platforms ... the lines of "a small computer" or "a single chip designed to do things

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  a second). And to add to the confusion, it changes from day to day and ... interested in adding a few new winter sports to the mix, and the one I've had my eye on the most is ice climbing. If you want the technical

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  have to add on a secondary major using the double major form (which is ... to the Committee on Curricula (5-111). Double check that you have other ... biology classes on the microscopic, the thermodynamics of drug absorption

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  know what I thought was my shining glory, my thing to be proud of, the ... from the situation and moving on. After high school, I felt like I had ... came to campus here at the Institvte, I was also very emotional about

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  that the walk to the supermarket is 40% slipping on ice and 60% slipping ... " and the second, "The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans" (ranked by INC ... : "Who is your favorite celebrity? Who is on the cover of the stack of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  available to me that I wouldn't have anywhere else. The world's best ... has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of ... . Or it just might have to do with the fact that being able to slap

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  eventually work on animated films — to give other people the feeling of hope ... thanksgiving, we continued listening to Into the Unknown on repeat. We found ... octaves. The second "Into the unknown" goes up to a ninth, and comes back

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  interesting. I went downtown to Washington D.C. with my brother on the metro ... . (side note: my condolences to all those left high and dry when the IAP meal plan program back on campus got canceled. We share the same

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  taught by the Digital Humanities group at MIT that focuses on how to ... I took piano lessons from the second grade to eighth grade. I have ... nsuns and c25k) depending on the day... M/W/R 10am-10:30am commute to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023