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• 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.

  

  we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in ... of the Kevlar fuselage. How did you steer the plane in the taxi ... to call attention to sexism in STEM and at least put that awareness in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  our check-ins. And it's fine. Most nights I get between seven to nine ... ? But also, I'm not sure how much I actually want to change this. Back ... . And don't get me started on how bad I am at lifting things. And sure, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  ideas how to get him noticed beyond the normnal high scores in school. He ... a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to ... important points in there. A common question I get a lot was articulated by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  faculty and the school in general, Dr. Kornbluth talked about how getting ... —  Rafael Reif announced his intent to step down after 10 years in office ... MIT News, as well as in an email sent to the entire MIT community by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• 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 / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  think about it, it startles me how much performing arts there are in mit ... something you use to eat a meal at a dining hall. people who live in dorms ... people standing in front of the cashier, waiting to just tap anyone in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  people who love math, and we occasionally talk about what's going on in the ... problems for the students to tackle together. If the students reach ... Math website: CrowdMath is an open project that gives all high school students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  DOTA2 players Tune in next time to learn about how I managed to get ... long time D&D/MTG player in HS, it's been nice to get back into the ... competitions later, I'm still having a blast. I came to learn how to dance and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  midnight, trying to varnish the wood, getting dust in it and wiping it off ... freedom, and many people build lofts for their beds in order to acquire more ... another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  - energy storage is a tricky problem. How creative can you get in solving it ... idea how to capture the data from Java directly to an Excel sheet ... gave me my awesome experience in Spain. Then, they also sent me to Italy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to ... about how they would handle the fall, I decided to seriously consider taking leave. I realized that taking leave would allow me to feel in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  what MIT means to me.  The short version is that it is the place in my ... as well as what you do is not a one-way street.  In order to really be seen, you have to allow it.  You have to invite people in, and it

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  showed new people how to make them as they came in. I don’t how much we ... drinking, I could soak the lower half of my face in milk to feel less of the ... much milk as you possibly can. Casein (a protein found in milk) binds to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  administration in some form or fashion. Most of these get sent to dorm mailing ... audience of this site. I support Snively 100% in wanting to have that ... or negatively), not something that needs to be worked out in real time

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  really wanted to major in. Too many cool things at this school... how could ... also how to approach problems. There are definitely many different approaches to how students here study/approach learning stuff, so while I’m not

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way... what would ... returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that dream project ... to college ... what to bring, how you’ll spend those last days with

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  Class of 2015. We're getting ready to welcome lots of their parents too ... tough decisions and the best way to do that, we think, is to take part in ... logical choice to talk about what the weekend has in store for you if you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  gracious to send you. I know that most of you will put it all in a big box ... fall visit to a college or university that you are interested in ... much a school costs. You are in the process of determining where to apply

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  competitions in order to get into MIT!) I remember standing on the field with the ... what to do or how to react, having just lost very narrowly in the ... realize now that knowing how to explain why one's cause is worth supporting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  , I get nothing.  tick Everyone here is brilliant. How the fuck did I get in? tick I’m just going to shut up, put my nose to the grindstone ... focus and let nothing get in my way. tick I feel like despite operating at

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 16, 2024