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• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  , though, since I ran one unofficial marathon at the height of the pandemic (when I was at an athletic peak, letting running fill the place of so many ... group with fellow walker Tañon. The three of us used the restroom at a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  the Pleides than in any other part of the sky. My computer at the NRAO ... friends, on the other hand, is not fond of public speaking at all, yet has ... 've learned that at the end of the day, we're all MIT students, and which dorm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  the crew calling out a phrase or 2 at the end of each section, to ... at a graph of people looking up “sea shanty” on google, the ... wikipedia-rabbit-hole-inducing one being offered, so of course I took it. It

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  I was five years old the first time someone accused me of witchcraft ... accused me of witchcraft, I was a sophomore in High School, tutoring a seven ... , from Harry Potter. Flattered, I tried to imagine that it was because of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  little too long waiting at the station JUST before I had to get off. (Of ... ideal bus for ladies, or if the lack of apostrophe indicates that only ... convince myself of, not for any good reason. I spent a little too much time

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  crazy thing you'd have fun at :) This paragraph was followed by all of the ... . Full of food and full of caffeine we arrived at Copley an hour before the ... Boston pillow fight! Apparently there's some sort of pillow fight craziness

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  thing that helps is to pick your head up, to stop staring at the sidewalk and instead look at the faces that are right there with you. Sometimes ... of MIT's pistol class [annotation note="unfortunately I was on the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  at with this story of yours??? Excellent question my little prefrosh I ... 'm working on getting a better camera so apologies  ahed of time)"   I ... nevertheless every piece of your life seems to fit into the right spot. You

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  enough to post it here as well: As with most of my posts in the parents ... helpful. Numbers mean nothing to us because ~70% of our applicant pool is qualified in those terms. Based on the thousands of apps I saw last year both

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  a group of students and professors to read a play in its entirety. At ... a long time. Essentially, one can do astronomy at every wavelength of ... , 956 sessions** 1330 hours of classes *mostly MIT undergraduates **you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  of 3.5 years of hard work in our 2.009 Product Engineering Process ... rest of the semester. It was tough: missing out on presenting tonight ... presentation slides. I’m so proud of my teammates and grateful for their kindness

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  you inspired for a spoOOoky time at MIT! #1 – Pretend you go to a different tech school Tired of spelling "Massachusetts"? This is just the ... 't Massachusetts. #2 – Alchemist Show some love for one of the most notable

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  hand size. you can have more than seven cards but at the end of a turn ... 's fine. well, depending on what your view is of "much", this isn't true. i ... ended up double the length of my current longest post. so from the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now available at > > > decisions.mit.edu < < < You can ... . Because of the competitiveness of our pool, we have already informed 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  The past weeks of my life have been consumed by 2.009, MIT's famous senior product design class. By the end of the class, our team of 24 ... . Over the course of 12 short weeks, we're expected to build a product that

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  '15 and I visited Amsterdam a few weeks back one of our stops was at the ... As exams become more and more of a reality that I can't ignore, I ... the early UK release date, and I absolutely loved it. A huge fan of the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  Just one year ago, I had arrived at MIT as a prefrosh, ready to start ... -orientation program (FPOP) known as FUP, where I got to do all sorts of cool community ... so many exciting things going on, and best of all, THERE ARE SO MANY

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  blogger committee - composed of communications staff and some senior bloggers - reviewed all of these applications. We laughed. We cried. We got ... the anatomically correct shape of a heart. We <3 her too

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  backwards-looking of my own. Kim has a collection of old Techniques (the MIT yearbook), and flipping through the pages from as far back at 1918, it was interesting to see what has changed, and what remains the same. Many of you will

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  that we are not offering you admission to MIT in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. The number of applicants for admission to the ... Schmill Dean of Admssions Now is no time to despair! Lucky for us, we

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010