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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.

  

  designed to fly at 20 mph and the wind is 30 mph, your plane will take off ... to fly yet). Since Corn Dog is so fast, we're anticipating doing ... thanks to our sponsors and to the wellspring of resources that is MIT Aero

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  Note: This is not a guide to keeping a notebook because everyone has ... scrapbooking. Obviously, it’s impractical to take a picture of each and every ... .   Diagrams and Technical drawings If I had to pick, this is my

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  of what research is and how it works. I learned how to read scientific ... problems it allows me to work on. Plus, to some degree, my happiness is ... will follow, for now. This is not useless realization. It allows me to

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

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  me that the world is a beautiful place. It's easy to forget that when ... snowy mountains. (I always find it funny that I look forward to going home ... distance. However, the one tradition that my family does have is our annual

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.

  

  the rules: Make sure your question is general enough to be of help to others that read the Blogs. (If it is VERY specific to you please ... closer to application deadlines I know that your anxiety level is on the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  become genuine. It is wayyyy to early in the morning to keep up a “oh hi ... you want to, but given you have to it is an amazing place to get some ... I am not sure about the rest of you guys, but when it comes to me I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  rendition of Simmons Hall is to the real one. ArchNewsNow   But do ... Meet Riri Williams.   Riri is a fictional 15-year-old black ...   In Invincible Iron Man #7, it was also revealed that she lives in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  . safety. It is up to you to create the categories and to be able to explain ... marbles this year. You know that it is important that you take proper time ... is to be respected and taken seriously. There is no doubt in my mind

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  full spreadsheet is linked here, but to expand on/summarize it: I spent ... ;1/3 of my music listening. It’s mostly to discover new songs ... this is not one of those occasions. You know who I do bow down to? MY

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  .01 to 8.01L, which is another introductory physics class. It's geared ... be optomistic); it didn't work for me. This is in no way trying to ... , thinking that it sounds fantastic and you'd love it and you can't wait to try

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  . My excuse is that I had to haul the Christmas presents I bought for my ... Adam is the baby of the family and his mommy won't let him drive to Maine ... him, but the picture is on my parents' camera.) We went to Disneyland on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  into a department once they've declared it? How easy is it to go about ... does the academic calendar look like? How easy is it to get a research ... need to figure out in order to decide on a program, therefore, is which

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  don’t know if i want to make large claims, i just find that it is ... irrelevant.  it is the same way i yearn to cling on to little details people ... communities and because it is funnier, the tungsten cube monologue has stuck

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  big sticking-together force! It's also possible for the forces to ... definitely in the no-no set of words. Putting it all together To make a ... ; else, it is shut! (This isn't quite exactly what happens, but it's the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  to be employed in the future. (And is a fully hardworking, productive ... to survive a "heck week": rarely. To experience a bad patch at MIT is ... agree on. To experience several bad patches week after week is a surefire

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Splash?

  flood MIT’s campus to take classes, taught by MIT students, on anything and everything. From music theory to Hungarian history to aircraft analysis, Splash offerings span a wide variety of areas. Want to take a class
• Blog / Athletics

  Go Sox!

  

  school. But when you move to Boston, it's really hard not to be a Red Sox ... this post is really about. It's not even about the fact that the Red Sox ... on her way to classes: This, of course, is the wrong view of the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  . Like any other morning, it looked like I was walking to campus. But as I ... already begun to give me looks as if it was weird that I was taking pictures ... pictures of them to show everyone. For those of you that don't know, MIT is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  EA, RA, and Transfer Updates Including the status of MyMIT tracking and the latest for those impacted by Sandy.

  

  website?  mitadmissions.org is now "responsive," meaning it ... " when you submit it, and then email us and have us change it to Early ... interview now, or very soon.  The deadline to contact your EC is December

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  like math. The story I hear too often is that they loved math up to a ... sense to them and they hated it after that. It's a sad story. Math ... , then your math is going to be fragile and prone to collapse. You can

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011