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• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  would hold it up for his inspection, and attempt to balance the plane on ... studying for a 5.60 exam coming up and my friend Nolan Kruse said we should ... sometimes say that I judge people for a living. While I had no formal

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  for 10B. You're done with the GIRs and starting classes specifically for ... is having! This will be nothing too crazy, but it is for sure something ... story short I was gonna ASE this class and then missed the sign-up

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  a few calls, but ended up making hundreds of calls for over four hours ... 'd have losing streaks for a while, give up hope, suddenly get a real, live ... of the freshly admitted candidates for the class of 2016. We all stayed

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  . A lot of color adjustment makes for crappy close-ups, and the white ... University for 7 years before going up to Boston for college but this was my ... , two people. I, too, had a roommate but she did not show up for the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  I felt. Igniting civic engagement on campus and advocating for peer to ... only a gentle 10 mile skate. I look away, embarrassed for her and think ... everything I need for months of travel in just one backpack with my skates

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  . Along the walkway across the Small Dome was a thrift pop-up for used women ... going on around MIT. For example, today the MIT Museum had an MIT ... Museum open again after being closed for so long brought so much joy to my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  certain we got some looks from people for bringing a cart around ... for organizations to last a lifetime. but i get bored of making websites ... number of virtual meetings for esp. as one of the new publicity directors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  trans community-searching easier, we've started up a Facebook group for ... others like us. Hopefully you learn something! (For anyone who doesn ... 's Rainbow Lounge is great for that. There are a lot of events at the Rainbow

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  something fun for the 10-year blog birthday!" so, of course, I say yes.  It ... . 1)  Yup, still skydiving :) This picture got me famous on Reddit for ... and fling them.  I'm the one filming. 2)  Solar panels went up on the

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  your browser to be the first to sign up for a trip (2) your facebook ... - it was all very alluring and exotic to me. Growing up in sunny Los ... topic.  People have many ways of dealing with the stress.  For me, winter

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  ended up building a 3-D twister game, some huge speakers, a hammock for ... juice. I’ve been waiting most of my teenage years for the freedom to drink ... -constructed roller coaster going up outside my new home. I wandered around in awe

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  and Counterpoint II) and signed up for an X-tra Special musicianship ... as early as 2 AM (!). And then I woke up and it was 7:13 AM on Tuesday ... for 30 minutes and went to a lab meeting and started an e & m

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  I'm happy to be here again for the summer. So I did this once my ... I'm living at Bexley for the summer and working just a short distance away in the Kavli Center for Astrophysics (Bldg 37) on Vassar Street. I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  , Noah '09, and Chris '09 all showed up for breakfast and joined our table ... awesome as it is to wake up 10 minutes before a class and not get to eat ... and plan their meals. I know, right? I mean, who has time for that? Ever

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  . We all met up and walked over to Fenway for a late lunch. Nothing like ... place one week at a time. For me, each week is like a round in a boxing ... get up and keep fighting, because you will make it. And when the match

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  mullets. Remember, good things always come in threes. Any other bloggers up for providing their take on the Bono article? And now, your regularly ... catch up on current events through the vast library of Newsweek, Time, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  you crazy kids ever get any sleep? Of course we do. I mean, for one ... kept detailed track of my sleep patterns for almost three years now. I ... for thirty years, and how helpful it had been to science, and then I was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  brush and floss every day for the rest of your life to have good oral ... when just doing so for a single day was excruciatingly boring, so i might as well give up now, right? during the fall and winter of 2020, i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  . "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the fear. it's natural, it's instinctive, it's thinking that tensing up the ... viscerally remember shaking out of fear as i walked up to the doors leading to

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

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  Unified Engineering your sophomore year. Mostly, you get to wake up at ... atop my mini-fridge for a long, suspenseful day before its first chance at the launch pad. Will it live up to its name? Will it make it through

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006