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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)

  

  Ring Comm Study Break to help plan, and we were assigned 8 – we repeat E ... drove up to help us clean our room (a dumpster at the time), and to bring ... Borderline (a general one, just to refresh on how unity works, and then one for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  ; I don’t know how to swim. I got two and a half laps in when I realized ... hard. I took the walk of shame to the table and signed up for a swim ... read which asked people to sit in a room with a shocker and nothing but

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  I don't have a pair of cat ears to wear." See? Isn't that so much ... go to MIT and one of the girls asks: "Do you participate in the annual ... , so I explained to them what hacks were and began sharing a few of my

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  of tests, homework, and projects that inevitably follows CPW. To ... lack access to water and facilities where they can cleanse themselves ... , reliable place for women, children, and senior citizens to wash themselves

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  people go on to write their ideas out. The minority that does go to the ... writing takes time and time is something which you give to MIT for ... friends will take up a large amount of your time, and it is very tempting to

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  anything to them was Battle of the Bands.* For an hour and a half one night ... , and their soldering irons to strum their guitars; beat on their drums, and whatever the heck you do with a theremin to raise the potential

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14/19, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  .  To check your decision on the 14th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password. In order to verify that you will ... to log in with your MyMIT username and password. I recommend you do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 5, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  yourselves. There is so much to do here, so much to get involved in, and so ... how I don’t understand him and this is usually my cue to calmly stop ... feeling like my life had to follow one track and be focused and accomplished

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  left my jacket unzipped and my hood down. I was chilled to the bone ... inescapable, shadowy aubergine that fades to lavender and gold.   ... ’ll text my friend Nathan at some ungodly hour of the night, and drag him to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  to be a man of few words, and my guest-entry was going to revolve ... every once in awhile. So I would like to thank everyone at MIT for making the campus such a special place and give a special shout-out to those at

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  home, to return to the hand of its Master. They are one, the Exam and the ... exams to the practice fields. Once you have seen them, you will not break ... , and decided on this one for brevity's sake. Still, you must know, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  tour typically lasts around 75 to 90 minutes, and it pays pretty well. I ... pretty bad. And when I tried to import everything into Premiere to edit, my laptop just up and crashed. Thankfully, the only editing I needed to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  "HappyBoard." ($1,500 worth of LEGOs, sensors, and HappyBoard). To avoid ... given all of our supplies and an objective. We then had a month to build ... Who knows what course 6.270 is without having to look it up? Anybody

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  is, well, after high school I went to college, and I applied to MIT ... I can do that. So I applied to MIT and I got accepted, and then I took ... fun at MIT I decided to stay an extra year and finish my master's degree

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Going On Some of the 600+ Campus Preview Weekend events.

  

  night through Saturday night. Bring an umbrella, raincoat, and/or waterproof footwear! (Thursday looks to be beautiful, though) It's after ... the MIT admitted class of 2012. It's going to be a fun weekend. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  applications, there much rending of garments and gnashing of teeth, but ... , commas, and empty roads, and has always wanted to grow up to become a ... ; it was a privilege and a joy to read your applications, and we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on ... painting. But as my senior year drew closer and closer to the end, as finals ... undergraduates to flip their brass rats around and wear them the other way: while

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  the office, she probably picked up the phone and connected you to the ... almost 8,000 emails to students, teachers, guidance counselors, and others ... exchange to help you learn English and acclimate to MIT. If you were someone

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of ... now, at last, to the knowledge that our rich and prosperous nation ... resources. Even more significant, and perhaps more threatening to our pres

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  ="how???"]now [/annotation], and were recently discussing how much this reminds us of senior ... to that extra scholarship and that extra school. Now, we are staying up extra hours to apply to that extra internship and that extra job. In high

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019