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• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  inconvenience you. Things are just starting to get out of hand and become ... embarrassed for other people to see your mess...but you would still let them in the house. Second degree squalor: Now things are really starting to get

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  information we wanted to get, and what questions we were going to ask in order ... like this: I took a week long course on how to be a leader in engineering ... other, you might find that one class teaches you how to think in such a

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  ’ for the 1st time in college, but after that i had to get on larger poles ... festivals for students in rural, underserved communities along the way! to ... semester, explore boston, get ready to UROP, and train for track season

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  beneficial to send in a new essay that I feel better explains who I am? Should ... that the earliest I can start is in August? (I like to get things done ... can send in our January scores, I would like to take the SAT again. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  uncluttered to touch. That's how I feel about the new MIT admissions website. I ... switching back ends. I get to learn a whole new process for bringing my words ... time I tried to build something (an ill-fated arch of cardboard boxes in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets ... doesn't seem that far away from yesterday. Now, I just want to fill in ... ramen noodle structure"), "Card Throwing," "How to Grow Hair

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  . I became interested in songwriting after listening to Olivia Rodrigo ... “girly-girl” and a “tomboy”, and how boys got to be multifaceted but girls ... story ended up winning a national award, and I flew to New York City for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  personalities. When I say that, I'm not just referring to undergraduates, but also to grad students, post-doctorates, and even professors - and in my ... magic and rabbits out of hats." "Okay. New game. wildebeests. In Africa

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  receive grants at least equal to the cost of tuition. In addition to the new ... attend college, and did not accompany me to campus. In fact, the first time ... number one question I get from students is some version of: “How did I get

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  worth at least 18,000 words so let's get started right away no time to ... star when we're trying to get home. The hangar is the big thing that ... graphs are ugly! I've been learning how to use STK (Satellite Tool Kit

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  I've just finished in New York City, where I did my last two days of ... stamped envelope to send their recommendation in, provide them with one ... mail day of the early action season, so I encourage you to get your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  answer. Our fourth grade math curriculum in New York happened to almost ... want to write today.  It started when we moved from Brooklyn, New York to Miami, Florida when we were 10. We started 5th grade in Miami at a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  cause poverty to continue in developing countries. In January (MIT ... need in order to build a project, and you can shop around if there’s a ... anyone using it will know exactly how it functions and how to fix it if it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  fastest descent that can basically get from point A to point B in the ... my breakfast in my pajamas. 9-ish - I start to head back upstairs to ... :30 - normally, I end up getting to campus a half-hour or fifteen minutes early. My

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  There is a class here at MIT called How to Design (Almost) Anything ... to create a 3D object, and discover something new about the process ... together. I found this video on how to make balloon bowls using sugar

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  by Rena Katz CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to sum it all up in one blog post, much like it's hard to ... living in developing countries and how people could help. She talked about

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  outcome? How can we even compare outcomes, like, would it be better to be in ... a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might ... T being Boston’s subway system, which he used to get from MIT to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  ) mechanical engineering class, and (1) thesis in order to graduate. And that ... -person local, in-person far away, in-person fly-to-CA-on-short-notice), and type ... , but still managing to get through the questions with varying degrees of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  , and had to get back to school) (through this cool library network we ... to get through all 10 this time. So far, I have... Nonfiction: The ... -fi stories (!!!!), in a very organic way. Going to try and add to that~ Some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  1 of the 101 Quincy Market, Mike's Pastries, Giacomo's, yummm

  

  to do before I graduate and one was to get through this list ... , I'm probably going to go back this weekend (and maybe actually get ... significance to me, because that's actually where I became a U.S. citizen :) In

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012