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• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in life. Last semester's demos in 8.022 (Electricity and Magnetism, with ... cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products. From the website: In 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, [150] students work in large ... Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  website. We're asking questions like: What we should keep doing in the ... We're closing in on Pi Day and still in the midst of making decisions ... help in making MITAdmissions better. tl;dr: this summer, we're going to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  . From the website:  In 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, [150] students work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and ... 2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Today I got an email from MIT that directed me to a website which ... that we are not offering you admission to MIT in the Department of Urban ... appreciate your interest in MIT and sincerely hope that you may be able to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  decided to not include it in the final version of the website... burton ... In the past few weeks, I've been pretty busy with [annotation note ... happens in the week first-years get to happens"]REX.[/annotation]Then, frosh

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  In my New Year's reflections post, I mentioned that over the winter ... details yet. Now, I'm two weeks into the semester and in the thick of being ... semester, in one of my many existential crises, I started to think seriously

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  programming last semester which are known to both be consuming classes in their own right, and I was also taking solid-state chemistry in an effort to ... -based math, and it culminated in a project where I got the chance to listen to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  stuffy.   Somewhere in high school, I decided that I needed to culture myself, and took a few weeks in the start of the summer after my ... Germany, Italy, France, and China thrown in. It’s really fascinating to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

    ITS HALLOWEEN. I'd slept an hour in the past 30 hours but it was ... vegetarians it's wrapped in a bacon weave and the recipe is from a guy named Angus(!!) who lived on 1E and graduated in 2018   To be honest I

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  e-book reader and put off buying it, but it won’t stop the Kindle 3, 4 ... can only keep going, or we wouldn’t be where we are today. IN ... back to Massachusetts Institute of Technology in less than 2 weeks. What

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  You Are LUSCIOUS I lusciously answer some of your questions

  

  of the mail/website, you can get an idea for the "vibe" of each college ... 's website and print media should anticipate and address your questions. Does ... website doesn't answer these questions, it hopefully serves as a bridge to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  song about femicide in Mexico.  Here are two things I weighed heavily: Audience: There were points in my recovery where a post like this could have ... alone in my trauma; I don’t want others to feel that way. Though I know

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  We begin our story in a cul-de-sac with neat green lawns in what was once one of the nicest towns in central Pennsylvania. It was morning; the ... half hour their voices floated in from the kitchen. “—and then Mrs. Essix

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  , etc etc. In hindsight I had consumed a Monster at 9pm ... States. That day, I'd gone running in Flagstaff, then secured a free trial ... serve. I wrote huddled in the back of my car, an orange minivan with a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  , November 1. I'd like to field some of your last minute questions here in ... currently have a backlog of materials in our processing center, and expect to ... will be finalized in November. Should I wait until the regular deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  I love cities, and I've lived in cities all my life. I grew up in Manila, lived three years in Boston, and am now spending the summer in San Francisco. Well, I lived in Manila, as much as I've lived in Boston and San

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  (notably the housing website) I’ll summarize the experience briefly. After ... each individual dorm in an attempt to showcase their culture. You get to rank all the dorms by how much you want to live in them (1 through 16

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  whether I want to continue in school and get an advanced degree after my ... questions about what the company is looking for in its candidates. Before I ... . International company: You’ll be working on your own, but be prepared to work in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  feel like I'm learning a lot. I mean, I'm sure I learned a lot in 2 ... feeling less confused than you started. But in Sustainable Energy we learn lots of actual, concrete stuff in every lecture. So every Tuesday and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008