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• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  you.  You landed fast and easily could have broken a leg.  You need to ... a year since I've graduated and I'm happy to report that real life isn ... cash, got strapped to a skydiver, and was pushed out of a plane.  It was

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Red Balloons Gotta catch 'em all!

  

  ASSEMBLE! Prefrosh, undergrads, alums, this is a call to action! It is time for us, all of us, to band together under a common dome and accomplish what needs to be done! Tomorrow, at 10:00 AM (ET), DARPA is

  • by Snively '11
  • December 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  to be a Harvard Ph.D student this year, and we agreed to meet up and ... . In the fall, one of JPL's Curiosity engineers gave a talk to the Solar ... was away for much of my internship, I was handed a large deal of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  (universities, etc) -- some have a particular amount of time allotted to X ... example, and a zillion astronomers who want to collect data with it; during ... need, exactly where you want to look in the sky, what frequency you want

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  to now give you a virtual field trip of sorts - into my dorm: Mc ... practices, a capella rehearsals, study sessions, and much more. Right next to ... years, I have experienced a fair share of field trips, including a couple

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  , MISTI, career fairs - MIT offers a lot of resources, but you have to take ... have a sense of what direction you want to go in, but don't let that wall ... advantage of the well-equipped Z Center. Benefit of going to a nerd school

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  only what I need to do tomorrow. I don’t have too much bandwidth to stay ... class I need to run, an unfinished group project, a sad friend, an ... treading water. I had three square meals a day, friends to hang out with at

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  more that needs to be done, so much that needs to be changed, that won ... Haiti, but I'll do my best to try to summarize. We just got back from a ... over the last week. I have so much to say and so much to remember, but I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  true. Admissions looks at a lot of different factors. You don’t need to ... Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  September 14th, I will lead our “annual” field trip to central Massachusetts ... involve a brief introduction to the geology of Massachusetts and visits to ... want to camp Saturday night, a van may be able to return to MIT by 7 PM

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  prefrosh are here, so I need to put on a smile, because MIT is supposed to be a happy place, or at least, that's the lie I'm going with ... the whole essence, [1] because I need to be a senior, because

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  's a question) if you could tell me how easy it is to double major in two ... are different options you can follow to study multiple fields. For two ... convenient to double-major than for two unrelated fields, but that doesn't mean

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  heard about OpenCourseWare, a large (and well-funded) effort to put all of ... opportunity, a way to explain the research process through material, context and anecdotes that don't make it to the final papers. And he even had a project to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  new to the field, how to use the same tools they use in a digestible ... comprehension that it was indistinguishable from magic. that turned out to be a ... that they were the exact same: i’m not going to talk much about the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  , like if they’re busy or have a bunch of personal issues to work through; it’s mostly when i know for a fact that they have the social bandwidth ... hard, and crafting a personal identity that you love is supposed to be

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  -by-doing class open only to MIT students, in which participants design and build a ... the students is to design a machine that will be able to navigate its ... need to design, build, and debug their own robot. The subject includes

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  This is just a quick blog post to tell y'all that there is a new ... aesthetic: a single “Spotlight” image surrounded by links to sites ... see here is just a beginning; we will be eager over time to find new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• FAQ / Transfer

  How much does the transfer application cost?

  Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT offers need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver won’t have any impact on your chances of
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  steps a day) as well as to see my active exercise minutes and resting ... 't spend too long on this section, but Google Calendar is a typical go to for ... Calendar just seems to be the typical calendar a lot of people use so it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  need to do between now and tomorrow: "Don't Panic" (and remember your ... know how MIT is. You might think to yourself "oh but I know so much about ... 's perhaps most important for some future nerds here at MIT (not to be confused

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010