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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  to do it had our freaking amazing friend not helped us from 11pm - 2am ... Ring Comm Study Break to help plan, and we were assigned 8 – we repeat E ... parenthesis correspond to notes at the end of the post) : Saturday 10:30am

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  us how to solve problems using Matlab- the lectures provide the ... fifth time since I’ve gotten to MIT).  [carousel image1="105487" image2 ... recitation. For the week I’ve decided to share, we were using angular momentum

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  my head. Nerves tightened. I couldn't quite get myself to bed. The ... accompany excitement. When I'm wrapped up in feelings, I turn to two things ... chair, talking with myself to work through some thoughts. Moments of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  This is, admittedly, a kind of quickly written post, but I wanted to ... students at MIT here.  Instead, I wanted to highlight just how quickly students began to act. Within a couple of days, mailing lists and discords

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  It's never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, around decision day, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  and the admissions office comes to fruition. Breathing is hard right ... overthinking. You end up having to sleep due to fatigue and most likely will wake up with a clear mind and higher spirits, ready to face the day. I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  to 3pm and then the banquet and afterparty following in the upcoming ... robotic efficiency and precision". Looks incredibly useful! Right next to ... was spotted with my camera and asked what I used to upload my photos. I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  group of high schoolers have six weeks to create a five foot, 120 pound monstrosity to compete in a game announced in the first weekend of January. Dean Kamen's goal with FRC and all of the FIRST competitions is to popularize

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  you bear to be without them? Can you imagine embarking on a journey in ... the familiar faces you have grown accustomed to? Most importantly, would ... with some high school counselors who wanted to change parents

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  Development) and Sean Gilbert (MISTI-China coordinator) to Beijing. Sean makes a trip to China every summer, but this is a brand-new cultural experience ... Chinese and international universities. Our conversation seems to suggest

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  to town and parks their train right behind Simmons. This is one of those well-known campus-wide facts that everyone looks forward to but isn’t really something that’s mentioned as an MIT selling point. Like, “come to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and ... back and looked at the stars, listening to the cars hiss by underneath ... composition?" "If you want to call it that, man, I'm just blowing!" When he

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  bills, don’t make weekend plans, don’t even finish applying to MIT, there ... very simplified nutshell, the LHC seeks to reproduce scenarios similar to the beginning of the universe (read:Big Bang). In doing so they hope to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  humanities? My response is if they want to spend four years studying 18th ... good fit for them. But, if they would like to take classes in Major ... duty of universities is to expose their students to world events and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  Come one, come all to CPW! I don't know about you guys, but the ... packed with hosts and pre-frosh running to class and with families taking ... Center are thronging with people - and I know thing are only going to get

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  at MIT. My first reaction was, to be perfectly honest, shock. How ... goodbye to my parents. I remember my first days here: building robots for ... Orientation, getting lost on the way to Baker House, exploring Greek life during

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  related to what I'm writing about. That particular one comes from Gilbert K. Chesterton. In any case, the entire point of that little tangent was to get on ... I would have a problem if Snively managed to get more posts up than me

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  denizens, is that we get up to such interesting things! For example, a few nights ago, we went on a skinny-dipping expedition to the famous Walden ... 's easy to blame him for anything involving nudity. The driver of the car I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  freshman year. It's sort of another "how to do everything wrong" story... apparently I'm not very good at applying for stuff, a deficiency I am trying to ... to do it in high school, but I was afraid I'd get homesick and wasn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  conner floor went to some random town in Maine for three days. our Airbnb ... concerts firefly — four friends and i went to Dover, Delaware for three ... . the music slapped though dance kinematix — i biked to Northeastern

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021