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• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  In my last post, I mentioned that I had gone on my first caving ... extremely interesting, and I really want to go on more trips with them in the future. I hope that I can go to the quarry again next year and make this an

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  of the Kevlar fuselage. How did you steer the plane in the taxi ... /Build/Fly competition, and as hats flew and hair rippled in 30+ mph wind, it became clear ... we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  are curious on a more in-depth treatment of the topic) Since I've been ... yardstick to measure how far into the semester I am...wow, this semester ... dominate the classes that I'm in now...(spent too much time on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  For most of the past month, I was traveling in southeast Asia, a trip ... Asia sometime in the future). Thailand The first stop was Thailand. I ... , including the famous Petronas Towers. Closer in, though, I was able to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  This weekend I went on a rafting trip down the Kennebec river in mid ... matter whether it goes in the trash or into the mouth of somebody I know ... much for the rainbow smelt population in the river, but it did make for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  -consuming, makes sense to me. I come up with little stories in my head about ammonia ... lively that I can't help but get excited about the subject material. This ... summer. I'm also waiting on my UROP paperwork to go through, so I can start

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  time in Cambridge where I can always find: interesting people who share ... University for two years and then my degree from Harvard Extension in Art History Favorite things about MIT: Personally, I love all the stereotypical

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  didn't have a concrete plan to do so. With that in mind, I set a goal to ... naïve assumption that I would be able to knock out this adventure in just ... way out to the Boston Common. With such a plan in mind, I met Shuli

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Room with a Vieux A comparison of sorts

  

  out the delicious surprise I found in my closet: built-in hangers! YES! It is going to be an excellent year... I can see it already ... Note: I freely admit I am stealing the title "A Room with a Vieux

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  5E Rush Photos

  

  , Matt '08, Brian '08, and a couple of people I can't make out in the dim ... everywhere. Kathleen '10 ended up living on 5th East! I can tell that she ... I promised you 5th East Hall Rush photos, so here they are. 3rd East

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  building! - because I wasn't in Taipei. But you can look at it on Youtube ... taking the time to enjoy your last semester in high school. I don't know about you, but I remembered the first half of my senior year flew by in no

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Facebook. Because social networking makes you cool.

  

  Hey all, I'm sorry you haven't heard from me in a while; I'm working on passing the aforementioned 18.022 exam. Final in 8 hours, you ... ). For your benefit, so you can all get to know each other in one central

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  worked. I was in the “captain” spot on my team, a symbolic position that ... question about the centrifugal force–wait, a trick. I knew this. I buzzed in ... went unanswered, reduced to just a mark on the scoresheet. I buzzed in

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  : I love living in a city, if for nothing else but the food. Last night ... scrimmage at 10pm. Should be a good day. Opening up a big can of worms: so, I ... Mario 3 (yes, it was released in the same year that an applicant I read

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Application is now available! You can now access the MIT freshman application at MyMIT.

  

  You can now log onto MyMIT to access the application for freshman ... ; printed materials that are mailed to us will be scanned. I recommend that ... in a 2-D environment, before mailing us any additional materials. If

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  I hope you’re all getting excited for Campus Preview Weekend coming up in April (sign up now)! Since I know you just can’t wait to meet ... attended in the Bay Area of California in the spring after I was admitted to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  localization – how a robot can figure out where it is in when you place it ... undergraduates. The EECS department is the best in the country and has pioneered ... -Packard, Qualcomm, Analog Devices, and Texas Instruments. I sat down with Hanhan Wang

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  understood that I learned how to answer them at some point in the past but my ... wanted to sleep. The only other time I remember feeling this tired was in ... extended essay in order to get the IB diploma. I remember thinking (as many

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  . Depending on your subject and which year you're in, you can have anywhere from ... general feeling of panic. I, myself, only got about 5-6 hours of sleep each day last week. This is non-trivial because I like to, and usually do

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  ). One of the most fascinating things I discovered in the course of writing ... understanding. I learned that when William Barton Rogers founded MIT in order to ... in artisan, as in skilled craft. I learned that, as far back as 1919

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014