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• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  Stepping between closing elevator doors, it doesn't even occur to you that the doors might not stop. Suddenly a very heavy, unpleasant pressure jolts you from both sides and you realize again, that this is not a place

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  . Way to be an engineer, right?   Week 2: ORIENTATION (a.k.a. Mad-crazy free food all around!) I'm not on a meal plan (because I like to cook ... thus far here as a student. I hope I didn't drown you in too many

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  layout process, ate pizza, and then mentioned that I hadn’t had a chance to ... ’ve ever had, all packed into four incredible days. If orientation (a.k.a ... that had been available for my browsing pleasure since December, I didn’t

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  answer is a big fat NO. it is literally because there aren't enough ... break in too much detail since I’m sure the procrastinators out there don’t ... what a titration is." "On behalf of the Admissions Committee… Wasn’t

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  have never met a challenge they couldn't conquer.  We also want to ... , and if your school, as a condition of your enrollment in an AP course, has a separate policy requiring you to take the exams, we would ask you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Food Truck Song What do food trucks dream of?

  

  lunches from a kitchen that could technically scoot away from you whilst preparing it. Tonight I was walking back from the T along the street where ... " from The Hangover. Ahem - Where do food trucks sleep at when they take a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  . ‘22, Emma L. ‘22, Faduma K. ‘22).  While our names only represent the ... seriously:  pay attention during REX.  Having fun at a dorm’s quirky event?  That event is probably a sneak peak into how the residents have fun with

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  science in K-12, but for a number of reasons (including the architecture ... forget Trying to navigate to a free t-shirt after a Dropbox info session ... don’t think “being an alum” will hit me until it’s the first week of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  project is already a lot of stuff, so I wasn’t sure if I made the right ... around. Six years ago, I couldn’t speak much Mandarin, and now I’m much ... course I think about these things. It’s different when I’m truly in a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  pm: you go to a cafe with K, a friend of a friend who asked to hang out ... , and a few months into your role you still don’t think you are doing a ... ’s better than next dining now. you haven’t really visited maseeh dining since

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  So first there was Peru, where we ate really good food (Exhibit A) and pet llamas (Exhibit B) and may have eaten llamas (shhh don’t tell ... fog shrouding the surroundings. Exhibit A: Maido - Japanese

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  matter of a few bars before I’m conducting along in my seat, fully ... machine, provided to me by MIT. When I’m not reading apps, I do a fair ... personal machine—a 15” MacBook Pro (2018)—but that likely won’t happen until

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  three-headed Doge Cerberus flying a rocket ship. Don't ask why. Sprinkled ... Emad T. '14 on Feb 17, 2012 '13 - Put a Ring On It by Hamsika C. '13 on Feb 11, 2011 '12  - T Minus One. by Sharon M. '12 on Feb 11, 2010 '11

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  IAP is a concept I didn’t really understand until last month, oops ... ’ve been learning a lot! I’m making a website with [annotation note="hi Dylan ... Period if there weren’t a lot of… activities? There are over a hundred

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  right: Nia M. '20, me, Katherine C. '19, Karen C. '20 Can we take a moment ... photo cred: Nick P. '20 Written by Danny Getting a Brass Rat marks the ... nights that turned into early mornings. It marks two.. whole… years… I can’t

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  Infinite Corridor. I used a power drill. I got my arm signed by Chris M. '12 ... upperclassmen. Don’t watch fun from a corner like I sometimes did. Finally, Random Hall has a step at the entrance. Don’t trip over it. Tomorrow you should

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  . Calculators can’t reveal that, but a better understanding, or insight, of ... ? Answer options: a) 20 m, b) 100 m, c) 500 m. Formal Model: Let ... formula for the height of the well: . A bit overwhelming, isn’t

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  , because unless you already have a well-defined plan for the future, you ain't ... i'm going to make, like whether to go to mit or choosing what to do ... have to think about this decision, i'm starting from scratch. i think it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  K investment ($5.2 million today) from W.R. Grace. They went through a ... lot of times we forget that MIT isn't a static being with x number of ... Cue Monday afternoon. I'm hungry because I decided to not spend money

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  people can’t do integrals. At this point, I ask myself a very fundamental ... forty pages flipped in a minute). I prepared. I found some integrals ... really learned partial fractions. Turns out I wasn’t missing much, partial

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016