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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  already had a simulated forward operating base set up, much like a base that ... myself, traveled over to Hanscom Air Force Base (about a 30 minute drive ... low crawling to how to challenge intruders, we had to know it all so

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  questions and concerns regarding MIT, like: how do I know MIT is right for me? how hard is MIT *really*? i dont know if i'm smart enough to go to mit. how do i cope with impostor syndrome?? And a lot of things

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a ... morning with a sore throat if you don't waking up at 7:15 is too early ... . there are very few women in the game industry and this is still a huge

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  is, albeit not a very creative one.  I wasn't originally planning to ... someone gossiping about how their friend's kid got into MIT. I knew it was a ... was during this time, I noticed a difference in how I viewed MIT. This

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  This is a guest blog post from the MIT Panhellenic Association, which ... ="Big: an initiated member who is paired with you to be a guide, mentor, and ... skeptical—how likely was it that a few days of short, albeit good

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  Meet Dennis Hopper. That was a portrait taken of him by Charles Giuliano, published in 2007. I first saw Dennis in a pile of four art pieces ... think of him as a rejected reject though; instead, I think that he was

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  'Miracle Child' of Public Drinker Earns a Full Scholarship to MIT ... of drunk, but drunk enough. Belinda started the day with a bottle of vodka, Joey a bottle of something else. On some days the cops would ask

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  , Apple Bake is a little more serious. It’s on our shirts, it’s in our blood ... The Apple Bake Competition is an annual event held by the [annotation ... . It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  often were, much of it still felt like a fantasy. In hindsight, Blue is ... made me realize that nothing is unusual either. There is not much to say ... activity, like a job, anything else feels off. Now of course, work is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  for a week, I can confidently say it feels SO much better than what I ... of a fear that I wouldn't do it "right" or I wasn't "smart enough" to ... minor, it's a really big character development for me. To start off, I

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

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  . aaaah - i just went and slapped samvaran some more me: is he going to be ... a bajillion pictures - as per female i ... squealing* Yeahhh, MIT! Our boat went kind of slow at first, but after a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  'm not as much of a deadbeat roommate as I look. April and I share stuff ... a big poetry person, but I liked his stuff. I have no idea how well it ... Today I took a nap fom 5 AM to 9 AM. Then I went to class. When I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  don’t remember much what happened during my Pi day; I think I went for some retail therapy and watched a few episodes of Friends to distract ... , is: Life presents us with many obstacles, challenges and adversity; we

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  a round of 10-hour psets, but turned out to be wildly effective during IAP, which is popularly described as "MIT without the work", i.e. the mystical utopia described by the admissions blogs. IAP is a truly magical

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  back at how much my life has changed in just twelve months. It has, by ... be taking a lot of classes where all the material is completely new ... , sweating because there is not winter in Southwest Florida. Now, I sit

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  't really remember what happened, but it doesn't seem like too much of a ... with us, and greets me with a jolly "Hello! How are things in Harrisburg ... have stuff to do at work. Unless you're working 16 hours a day plus

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  . The hardest part about essay writing for me is actually coming up with a ... questions they will inevitably be asking. It is a truth universally ... applying for. For example, a med school application is definitely going to be

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  because of how much physics was involved! We had to create a grid of spheres ... , physically based simulation, ray tracing, and real-time rendering. There is a ... .youtube.com/watch?v=dDeEmtCrhdc[/embed] Ray Tracing Ray tracing is a technique to render 3D scenes by shooting

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  Every year there is a contest sponsored by East Campus called the Bad ... started taking over the lives of its founders!! Here is a quote from an ... incomplete list of builders is here. Here are a few pictures I took for their

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  to take a picture of, so I did my best: And if you're curious how much ... As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water thinking about the life decisions I've made to lead me there, I noticed a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011