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• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  we were asked to do it four days before the event, so we had three days ... short of a pyromaniac’s. https://youtu.be/ytdqcV3HV4o Is it real fire ... trip. Isn’t it dangerous? Of course it is, but so is football, and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  's gaping maw ready to swallow me whole again. In other words... BRING IT ON ... few days to be tourists and see Macchu Picchu. The picture is a picture ... finished working in it. Then the next kind of work is something that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  and math levels are encouraged to participate. This year the date is ... engineering, Beaverdash is a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience and ... you at the competition!   ----- Get on it if you're close enough to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  think that the answer to a bad day is isolating myself till it’s time to ... interesting turn of events, Naina is hired by her own alma mater to take on the ... , so use it wisely. You want to bet? But bet legally. Not streetside

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  thus far. It also should be mentioned that it is a major plus to hear the ... .02; Physics 2: Electricity and Magnetism. This is easily my favorite subject! It ... from a different nation to see if he knew the native tongue. It was the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  article is that the US is no longer the superpower when it comes to ... there's tremendous economic pressure to suck you away from what is perhaps ... getting tenure. Or if you go into industry, it takes you a long time to work

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  , however you want to shake it, and nobody's going to care or judge you or ... negotiate this fee and brought it to their attention that, as she's a college ... possibly see in your lives." However, I have to say that I found it less

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  clearly had to share it with everyone we knew, or to preserve that one crazy ... anticlimactic, but apparently I had needed to take it to show someone some ... randomness of the email sent out to my sorority's spam list is just absurd

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there an MIT Flying Club?

  -scale flying for the MIT community. Open to pilots and non-pilots, the club ... -ins to the MIT campus, organizes fly-outs to New England airports and
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  on ai research. part of it is because i have a hard time committing to ... how i decided what to do after graduation. this is a condensed version ... finance is particularly good for the world (i don’t think it’s bad either; i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  monumentous and grand and large. All it took for us to understand that was a ... would stick with me as much as they did, but even now, I think back to it ... freshman year, I dabbled around with major ideas. I knew I wanted it to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  don’t know which one you’re on or which you’re going to (as is often the case, for me anyway), that 68 is the only building on main campus to run at a non-right angle to all the rest, that 66 is the 30-60-90 triangle

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  year. This decision has been made with care, and it is final. I know this can be a difficult decision to receive, but trust me: it works out okay ... of you to apply to MIT. It’s an honor and a privilege for us to read

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  darkness trailing its descent. Whenever his rapid pacing brought him to the ... her temper—but give him a good talking-to just before then. “It’s over ... . *** One of the first things to go was time. It lingered around for a while

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  requesting to join - it's how Emma and Michael (the admins for the facebook ... are differences to celebrate. (It's the fundamental pulse of the process ... Mikey would sing its prefrosh to sleep at night with his or her favorite

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  only is it interesting, but this has really turned out to be a great ... (although I think Isreal is the most recent). Well, I've been wanting to go ... really excited, and decided to apply. Here's how it works: I went to http

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  Society): It was with deep sadness that I bid farewell to first semester ... stretcher! And it'll have a button to lower/lift it! Which means my biceps and ... that Nobel Prize? It’s all too much to memorize! :D Part VI: Post

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  submit the supplement are not), and there is no audition process to take ... your research mentor. It is unlikely that if you submit a complete research paper that we will be able to have it properly evaluated during our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin

  

  is a bunch of photos because it’s so hard to choose between all of this ... though that is not what Dom is short for. i like to call him a dirty little ... larger whole by seemingly unhinging his jaw which is amusing to watch

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 13, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  things to love about the MIT student community, and one of them is that we ... GTLs is a great way to explore teaching – you get to try teaching very ... ’m Elizabeth ‘14, one of Anna’s many friends). I’m here to talk about teaching at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014