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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  + looks exactly like an A-, which in turn looks like an A. That's great if you squeak by with an A- for a term in one class, but if you got, say, a ... the extra three points I needed for an A! Moral of the story? Don

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  whole process. i have a lot of hope for the fall. i feel like i’m in a ... hallmates in the lounges, the ec rush playlist blasting in the courtyard ... in hmart by michelle zauner, detransition, baby by torrey peters, stone

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  the two o'clock bus and settled in for the ride. The Chinatown bus has ... planet or that we were in New York City ready for a day of awesome. We ... and got this really strange, incredulous look in return. "Um, are you

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  at a moderate pace for maybe an hour or so. I'm not a fit person. My ... for an hour or so after a shower. To be honest, I'm also bad with ... community, for members of the MIT community. This was my first year watching

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  grocery run. It was wine and cheese night in my suite, so I was preparing an appetizer of brie sprinkled in candied walnuts, wrapped in puff pastry, and ... This is my fourth year in Cambridge. But earlier this week I learned

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there an MIT Flying Club?

  offers regular general body meetings for members, hosts helicopter fly-ins ... The MIT Flying Club, headquartered in AeroAstro, motivates, encourages and facilitates affordable, hands-on experiences in full
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the ... alive for about two years. I did theater, which saved me in a lot of ways ... . I did, it worked, I came out to my entire grade in an impromptu speech

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on DesigNerds DesigNerds: Product Design TV

  

  an article about it in the GSN (Graduate Student Newsletter) here. Look ... Archimedes Death Ray myth. For more on that, you can look here, or if you ... the pilot in 6-120, so I decided I could afford an hour long study break

  • by Bryan
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  the passage, and an option that moves on: In the blog post choice ... having friends means, as an adult who won't be in school any more. Here ... Spoilers for A Boring Friday, you should check that first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  chrismahanakwanzucollegeappska everyone! //authors note: ensuring permissions for photos ... kicking back at my bench space--newly unwrapped box of pipette tips in hand ... ; Since I'm still here for a few days, my flexible family is just

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  , writing a blog post for the first time in almost four years. Since I started ... , and for the first time in my life, I learned to fly alone. I’d grip my ... forth travel, but also a time capsule for the different points in my life

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  everyday bit of fun in an airport should have been the line for bag check-in ... fact that I’d waited in line for about an hour already (what, do these ... all? you may ask. In all honesty, nothing. There is no reason for you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  high schools, highway miles, and an MIT story waiting in rural ohio ft. Max B. '24

  

  anxiety was an  In short, he explains that MIT doesn’t perform one calculation to determine an applicant's “score”, and instead looks for people ... Stanford for my PhD. I grew up in Logan, a small town in southeastern Ohio

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 30, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  essays out loud. In this revision you are looking for what I call emotional ... your interviewer might say about what you’re like in person. For each ... be filled in with your essays. For each quality, especially sparse ones

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  MIT Media Lab that I got to try out an augmented reality headset for the ... Earth floating in the room, spinning it around and stopping it to look at ... BeaconStreet, all of which are organizations I've volunteered for in the past before I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of ... perhaps I wanted to do an REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) to ... knowledge test in Oregon to qualify for a new permit. However, due to COVID

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  . For many students, it doesn't really set in that they're an MIT student ... almost here! Because I care about you, here are some tips for choosing an ... characters.Signing up for your account will give you storage space (an online

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  recognizable real-estate moguls in the world. For those of you who haven't heard ... .S. in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University (GPA 3.9/4.0) -an M ... Rhodes Scholar -an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT (May 1998) -an M

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  us “Under the Great Dome" for an informal gathering hosted by the Chair ... a handful of the events created with you in mind for CPW and I hope ... the campus before. I quickly realized it was all I had hoped for and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  to 23% when I charged it in the bathroom of an old abbey, and had ... worked in construction, structural steel, for thirty years — in many ... beautiful Irish house in Dublin (an airbnb) that stressed me out because two

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023