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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  chance to ride in a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. My first experience was ... students who had signed up to fly. The Deans were given a short safety brief ... hard to get caught up in this experience and miss the whole takeoff. I

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  undergraduate degree in the subject of your choice. You don't have to be a biology ... from four to six to a zillion years, depending on how fast you get your ... lecturing for 9.12 that he needed to tell us "what you're getting into by

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  , which was covered in multiple layers of stickers. A woman who I assumed to ... so. Drenched in sweat, I tried to unbox my bedding and put it on a bed ... actually got to Mass Ave, I saw a Target, so I decided to just get snacks

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  by a player who used data from Google Earth to generate Minecraft ... In the week following our last few days on campus due to the COVID-19 outbreak, a group of MIT students came together to build a 1:1 scale replica

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  enough to be in an intellectual atmosphere that is nothing short of ... written a while ago, but I've been unable to publish it until now. Enjoy ... laptop hanging from the rafters with a note pinned to it. (not really, but

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  college, and you're going to get to (not HAVE to!) kick up a storm again and ... out with your heart to a bunch of strangers. A little scary, isn't it ... already turned in your applications. And yes, you will be accepted to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  nth Annual Concert in Bad Taste We are the mooninites..

  

  toilet paper across 10-250. Why in the world would someone do such a thing ... can find a list of the topics that they made fun of (all in jest, of ... dedicated to Facebook, which is probably the reasons I get less sleep than I

  • by Bryan
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  someone asks you for a cabinet, you'll know what you're talking about ... . This is the Boston term for a milkshake, from the French "frapper" ("to ... ], ice cream, and a tall glass to make a float. "Suds and a sidecar" is the

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  going to college?" "What schools have you applied to?" "When do you get a ... consoled me when I didn't get in, celebrated with me when I did, drove me to ... on the parents page on our site: Getting ready for the decision A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  more time to do some blogging! Here is a random smattering of things I've been wanting to blog about. THE SHARPE BROTHERS A while back, on the ... ! If you want to see them in action, you should go to YouTube and search

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  59-minute walk according to Google Maps, but 40 minutes at a New York ... group. However, I proceeded to get lost in North Station because the MBTA ... A liveblog on the blogger retreat 2023 (check back in throughout the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is ... DID YOU KNOW? After failing to acquire MIT no less than 3 times in ... sometimes occurs a mere nine days into term. However, since we get so many

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  leading a project to redesign the new sfs.mit.edu and mitadmissions ... chance to blog a preview and talk about some of the design decisions we ... you can get a sense of the basic design direction.   Student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  memo too. Now, if you're going to a biannual event involving an ... it a year and a half ago, I knew that the best place to check it out ... stairs once you get to the end of the hallway. Unfortunately, this concept

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  problems can be in my grasp. 8.022, my love makes me a fool Since I, to you ... to deliver someone a fatal blow. How could I possibly enjoy 1500 pages ... /limerick composition; Person who posts the best one gets either a) a prize sent to him

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of ... shout "On your left!" or "On your right!" and I will never be able to ... , especially in proportion to its massive concrete parking lot, and I am suddenly

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

   thinking about how i would go to college in a place like this, and now i’m here ... a lot to do. and yes, i’m hosed in that respect, but i’m not sure that ... far without ash sticking to the windshield of your car. there was so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Lots of good and important stuff for both EA and RA admits.

  

  your future classmates, and to get emails and screennames to be in touch ... wise: if you're flying in, book your plane tickets early (You may want to ... of 2013 Guestbook: Hundreds of your classmates have checked in to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  friends, etc. Gives me things to look forward to, in between studying and a ... classes in a separate binder. Makes it easy to compartmentalize different ... like me taking a nap in the midst of a practice exam. Keep your energy

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  that were born in a six-foot pile of snow, feel free to share your own ... thing that gets cold in the winter are your phalanges (i always loved that ... surprised, but your hands can get really cold in the five seconds that you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018