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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  mini classes where you built a rocket? Think of GEL as those two things ... select a leader. Once you have, leaders, raise your hand” Me: *turns to ... : “Alright, you have a packet in front of you. You have 30 minutes to complete

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  by their program. You can take a look at the online and below. And, no ... several textbooks from Amazon, and I was considering buying a notebook (the ... Probably one of the most lucrative jobs on campus is that of the dorm

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  may seem a bit daunting, but don’t worry! There is a solution: the ... , although you sometimes forget where you locked it up and for a split second ... . Razor Scooter If your transportation of choice is a Razor Scooter, you

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  's the largest single object ever built. Only thing you can't see is the ... ,at MIT you can do an IROP (close cousin to the UROP) study there If I ... no point. This is goodbye, this is my last post. I know what you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  nobody sitting next to me, which is a bonus. There’s also an outlet on the ... , there’s nasty storm system located out west that will probably put a ... once every two or three hours, but, in what is perhaps not a great omen

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Mary Tyler Moore sent a signed copy of the single ... themselves to a differential equations textbook, buy their first starbucks ... . To me, succeeding at MIT is just a gradual process of lowering your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  (This is part 2 of my oh, the places you'll go blogpost because they ... managed to nab an internship at Microsoft as a New Technologist, where my ... is a place I could see myself. I try to be a proper computer science

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship

  

  , theater, and, yes, sports. MIT is a member of NCAA Division I in Crew ... , badminton, tae kwon do...). You can be an MIT student and do varsity athletics ... program's history, with previous victories occurring in 1971 and 1972. As a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  everybody mad at me. If, while reading this, you find yourself a) Upset b ... . In fact, if you don't do any Rush as a freshman then YOU'RE DOING IT ... people refusing bids), you're left with maybe a little less than 50% who

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  least, but it just goes to show you how much there is to do during IAP ... same sequence of notes. There is so much I wanted to do for IAP for no ... soup because it sounds easier, but since it is a Mafia potluck, I guess

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  free-spirited. Daisy is now living the life out on a farm where she can ... . Foreign names are welcome but if a translation is possible please submit ... . We went to PetCo by the CambridgeSide Galleria. (The Galleria is the

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  - and the best part is that I can accompany it with a story from my summer ... them is a brief "hey, guys, sorry - I don't mind you talking, but ... teacher lunch is okay. There isn't much pizza left by the time I arrive

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  become -- --- OKAY, so there IS a point to this entry! Here it is ... ! 1. It is not a test. I'll tell you how much we ECs know about you as an applicant - where you live, what your birthday is, where you go to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  fun. If you've known me long enough, there's probably been a time where I randomly dropped a piece of trivia onto you. My roommates can attest ... source. But can you use Wikipedia as a source of entertainment? If you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  glass breaks at the coldest part, which hopefully is right where you ... paperweight is really just a lump of glass. It can be completely round on the ... put at the top of the fire don't really show up - you can see them a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  if you're a lifeguard. Because then all you do is stand there and ... -da. Anyway, triples is where all the action is. There may only be three and a ... perspective in life (i.e. a lot) you can make it through the day and in fact an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  't want to give away any surprises, but as you can see there's a lot of neat ... you can see the number of posts and how many comments there are, though ... can also choose multiple if we'd like. As you can see, there are no

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  you'll ever have. This is the summer where you'll attend a biology camp ... main one I want to talk about is fencing. I had a complicated ... next year, where I found out that my high school offered fencing as a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  , then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight line ... you enroll next fall, please make it a better place. I know you can. I ... portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  to be viewed as a successful scholar, you first must prove you can ... . Set aside the practical benefits for a moment, though. If you can excel ... when your biggest worry is a math final at the end of the month, you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006