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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  webmaster, Odyssey of the Mind, marching band, writing awkward blog posts ... Stranger to the Rain is one of my favorite songs to sing ever, but on top of ... window wistfully, thinking of how much I'd miss my mother in the coming

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  happiness. I’ve collected 400 hours of bus angst over the past three years, of ... wrote an unhappy list of all the people I was unhappy at, which Cory R ... edged into the middle of the line to the bathroom and after ten minutes of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  should look equally good on a desktop, laptop, tablet, iPad, Kindle, mobile ... looks! MyMIT Tracking for EA: We are still processing thousands of ... know some schools and homes are still out of power, and we don't want

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2012
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I haven’t completed all the recommended coursework?

  At the very least, we recommend you have one full year of both ... is admitted without calculus and physics at the college level ... course of study and institutional offerings.
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching

  

  minute! What happens if some of my school forms come in past the deadline ... ) come in after the January 1 deadline. We are much more understanding of ... recommended, the interview is not a required part of the application (and

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  making fools of themselves for the camera. ... September. I miss my insanely sunny old room, but so far the move seems worth ... they don't have to. -Starting classes. By the way, getting up at 8

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  . Basically, the project was designed to have us develop some type of scientific ... first trick: Experiment #1: Testing the acceleration of a mountain bike ... intelligent conclusions. In the words of the late Aaliyah, "If at first you don

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  talking about the massive quantities of free stuff (water bottles, shirts ... throughout the Z-Center. This year, I didn't succumb to the frenzy of: This ... I'm not going to paraphrase all of that in text. But I think the most

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  (to you, dear reader), because Sam was basically the coolest blogger of ... Awkward" has been murdered, and we've been charged with the task of figuring ... "little black book" with lots of contacts in it. We've got to solve the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability ... there are other circumstances, too, in which the cost of trying for ... . For similar reasons (with the bonus fear of getting hate-crimed), I don

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  here are some highlights. Our MIT Wall This is one of the first things ... earlier blogs, you might recognize one of the paintings! The top 3 paintings ... kept the cardboard because Mariia and Emma needed to make things out of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  you, and where did you live? Most of the professors were, of course ... -- back when many of them were at MIT, course 9 was just psychology; the ... "Material Girl" at the top of your lungs. I found a pair of 4-inch Steve

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring ... 'Are you sure?' (Read more about the trials of the course in the intro to my entry #2 about bottle rockets. The pains, and gains, of being a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  of dirty laundry. I print out my p-sets for the week. While I’m at it I ... ’m running out of socks. I spend an hour picking out socks on the Internet. I ... something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  ’t expend much energy on pondering the concept of gratitude. In that sense ... all the dimensions of rage, or resentment, or joy, or grief, but ... be grateful for every moment of existence. That’s the philosophy of the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  C-Sail Jack Florey really went Captain Jack on this one.

  

  This might look like a regular old picture of the Stata Center on a ... ...a C-Sail... It's a C-Sail on CSAIL! (For those of you who still don't get it: the Stata Center houses the Computer Science and Artificial

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  Behold, the first sentences of four different unfinished summer blog ... outside of the bathroom. ----- So I bought some Ethereum at $7 and it ... windowsill of the Internet for the world to see.   That's what I usually

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my day in pictures

  

  sounds some sirens if you leave the "doors" of the "car" open too long ... : ...still in lab       it's been one of those days. we have ... started off the semester with basic stuff, like incrementing a number when

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2016
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How many students play sports at MIT?

  ! Students interested in playing varsity sports should contact the coach of ... With 33 varsity sports teams, MIT is the largest DIII athletics program in the nation. About one in four MIT students join a team during
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  that the life of a graduate student is not as exciting as an ... fortunately, I remembered my password today and given the start of a new school ... academic reasons). The past two years have been full of excitement from

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009