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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  would like to work on and become masters in their area. If looking at ... the FSAE team members: - I had the chance to sit in this year's FSAE car ... seconds, in case something goes wrong. I think it took me about 30, and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  before. It was this: I would ask Lady Gaga to sign something that belonged ... card costs exactly $15. (In case you're curious or vegan, I blocked ... I might as well tell you straight away that this story ends with Lady

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  pretty set on what my major for a while now (in fact, I specifically ... there any less cool. I've been writing this from A-Control in WMBR and ... and pretending sleep does not exist. In the meantime, I'll be fending

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  ’d attend would assist in paying for her degree. She loved math, so she ... in,” she confessed, “until I got accepted to WISE.” Misconceptions ... “sitting in the basement with glasses on in the dark,” and she would not know

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  MIT, how I feel about them, what I loved, what I'd do differently ... really got used to it. I learned a lot in 21M.302; I looked at some sheet ... My grades for the semester have finally all appeared on WebSIS, and I

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  'm pretty sure they don't actually see me at all in our room since I've been ... content of the class. But you should probably ask me how I feel about it ... stuck out to me because I enjoy blogging. It's all about how journalism

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  it was his home.  I wrote plenty of times about how it was my home ... think I'm special, in a way. The kind of way where life threw a lot of ... cat, Rory, and I live with the amazing Dan S. '17 in a tiny three

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  ? MIT students/alums, what advice would you have for incoming freshmen in ... awaiting your Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) video introduction to MIT's dorms, you can watch the trailer here: 2005 i3 Trailer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  Back in September, I wrote my first blog. I called it Things I Know ... behind it. I don't like the blog at all. I take some pride in saying this because it means I am a different person than I was in September. For many

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  a spare pair of underwear packed discreetly in my back pocket, I ... could see how much fun I found it, but those pictures will remain unseen ... line up to surf in it. Kind of like the swan boats in Boston Common

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  large events, get funding, and how to get involved in student activities ... , especially in a world where leadership, interpersonal, and management skills are required for competitive higher positions in all organizations

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  involves taking 3-4 classes in a certain subject. For example, I plan on ... how much you can handle on your plate in addition to your classes.  Join ... abilities, and in the spring if you do not.  I took biology at the same time

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  It's raining. I'm sick. No lab today, because the postdoc in our ... of this writing, I have exactly 11111 unread messages in Gmail. Initiative was taken. Somewhere along the way, I got lost in a cyber-attic of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  students in the coming weeks and months - about how our process works, what ... This year well over 18,000 students applied to MIT, the most in our ... students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  . First, I had forgotten that this REX would be the first in-person REX in ... decided, would have to be easier. I had a twelve-week internship secured for ... committee; I would only be a member of the committee, providing whatever

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have ... have somewhat different styles of how the conversations will go, the main ... in that regard. To that end, there is no expectation that you should

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  unsteady smile. “I know, babe. I am relaxed. Just…I haven’t seen mom in ... . Maybe she would storm out of the room—in rare moments, he saw something of ... within her—soon, it would be everywhere, in pipes and city tanks and water

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating or, every food picture I have ever posted from pika

  

  , strange instrument concerts, and sitting in a dark room listening to music ... pika.) In honor of this especially pika week, here is every pika food picture I have ever Instagrammed. sushi last spring   something

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  'm terrified to leave MIT. How do you make new friends as a new grad? What if I ... me? How are you gonna tell me I'm just going to need to be an adult for ... will be okay when I'm not...in the okay. But then I think back to where

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  less. i have never ordered a venti in my LIFE. before we reached the ... i had a magical long weekend. a fellow rising sophomore friend, her boyfriend, my boyfriend, and I all rented a Zipcar and drove down to Cape Cod

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020