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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  hemisphere that spends 90% of its life in the air. An Albatross can go up to 6 ... sleep in the air, meaning they can spend years without having to go to dry ... to me.  1 in 10,000. Black squirrels are 1 in 10,000. A .01% chance of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  , never let my education get in the way of my learning.   Love you ... because in order to teach you have to know your stuff, and because through ... -generated censorship, or how people manipulate social media to suppress speech. While I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  States. It will not tell the reader how to get into college or how to run a ... address what every college and university has articulated in its mission: to ... children, may wish to look more broadly at the educational enterprise in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  skills as well. In August, I'm going to the ACS meeting in Philadelphia as ... to investment bankers to recruiters. It is kind of cool because I get to write code in jeans and a T-shirt on Wall Street. I am writing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  inflammations in your system. Thank goodness I asked her how to eat this, because ... trip to China every summer, but this is a brand-new cultural experience ... that MISTI is one mens et manus answer to the "study broad" buzz word in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  post by discussing the future I imagine for myself and how I want to get ... off to work in New Zealand instead of grinding away on problem sets in ... It seems to me that we swath an imaginary future world in pretty

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  event ended in order to get back for my 6.177 group presentation, and didn ... Fair. The Logistics Team got up at 5am to get the entire career fair set up in ... what to eat first and how to get to the bottom of the plate let alone see

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  them all away. I went to a new counselor in the morning who taught me ... because it's hard to get your brain together when you're in panic mode. So ... times like these I need to know I'm not alone in how I am feeling. I was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  in baker. i take the elevator down to the dining hall to get meals, and then i take it back up and eat in my room. i walk to the z center to get tested every once in a while; it takes around twenty minutes to walk, get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  , April, I had to hunt elsewhere (we're moving to a new building in October, and Morgan doesn't want to "waste" grant money on a new ice machine when we're getting a spiffy new one at the new building. Whatever.) So I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

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

  

  there so much they moved in early to hang out with you guys!  They can ... information...let’s get to the most important part of REX -- our events!!! We ... art and make door decorations to liven up your new dorm rooms! While

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  .” I was surprised how naturally I transitioned into MIT life, in my head ... how to CPW. What makes CPW special (a partial list): It’s nerd ... . We all get to see MIT through your eyes as the wonderful, bizzarre, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  . Living in New York has given me so many unique opportunities and ways to ... fit in the group, but I was so proud of myself for getting to the top ... then I talked to Petey about how my old gym was too far from my new place

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  compelled to remind everyone that it's never the numbers alone that get you in ... application tracking. How can i get to know when it has arrived? Can you suggest ... were sent in early December. Do I need to get them sent again? I hope not

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  when I was a Rep, Apple was trying to generate some new ideas for projects. Thing that we could do on campus to get students excited about ... out how to make my Guitar Hero guitar work as a MIDI controller, just

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  a non-stop grind to get everything finished in time for competition ... Arcturus — how are you introducing it to incoming frosh? Audrey:  Arcturus ... school year, we competed in RoboBoat 2022, and we’re excited to take on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  actively participating in discussions on how to alter the experiment that ... , how the heck does one actually go about doing this? To my luck, the ... from autonomous drones to what I am currently working on in Biomaterials

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which ... MIT. Dreamers can continue their studies in the U.S. thanks to DACA ... , subject to renewal every two years and only in effect for the duration of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  demon in the sense that he has no morals, and will do anything to get what ... already-known objects in such a way as to create new composite objects; or 3 ... to figure out how it achieves its effect. If you read one thing from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  to get a head-start on - in four of my five classes (the only class ... sentence. But it's actually true. And in the long run...I wouldn't want it to ... BREAKING NEWS: Stu Schmill '86 Named New Dean of Admissions - go wish

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008