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• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  needed to finish it; in this case, a [annotation note="they seemed much ... , ever, but I am actually majoring in mechanical engineering. I went on a ... building project is like a sidequest: fully unnecessary and a lot of work

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  "You're joining a fraternity? What?!?!?!?" I think this is what a ... in high school, I was a pretty shy person. I was very quiet, went to ... much top secret). - You can't live in your fraternity during your

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  biggest is people who do not understand how to drive on the Infinite Corridor. The Infinite is essentially a 4-lane road with 2 lanes going in ... and learn. If the Infinite is crowded, consider the center line a

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  application to computer science. Unlike Tic-Tac-Toe or Chess, poker is a game of ... - to determine what the best move is in any given scenario, since the ... with a robot is like trying to play chess without knowing where your

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  is 1120 A.D., and the fates of four empires hang in the balance as the ... , this is also very much true). Since MIT is undeniably a tech school, I ... relationships with professors, something that is much harder to do in the larger

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  , depending on traffic, to sit in the basement of a Sloan building. (Sloan is ... it is, in short: Nothing to do on a Wednesday night? Call Shane, go out ... Tonight's blog entry is brought to you by Cam, a resident of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  , trauma, etc. can look like in their friends. This is a much more personal ... don’t want to hear about him. I am in so much pain. How much pain is ... . There is much I love about this world. How is it possible for me to love

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  looking at a baby photo. This site is both ever-changing from new voices and ... ="attachment_83349" align="aligncenter" width="300"] in case i get a new avatar, i ... album"]musicals,[/annotation] hiked in national parks, stopped for free wi

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  animation program) when I had free time back in high school. For me it was a ... walked into a door with my nose in a book. How I didn’t break my neck going ... situation, in as much denial as I could muster. Then this spring, a.k.a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  status for a truth is” and videos of ourselves upending a bucket of ice water over our heads. Now, in the past year, at least a dozen engagement ... this was a good life hack; by befriending people my age (which is easier

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  'll be posting about the experience! (In the meantime, feel free to leave a ... biography reads: Melis N. Anahtar, Bethesda, is a senior at the Massachusetts ... in biomedical engineering. A former finalist in the Intel Talent Search

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  mathematical set "inside". But that's not (entirely) true. In fact, there's a ... fall off beneath the plane is exhilarating to me. It makes me feel free ... wind up staying overnight in a terminal, or sleeping in the trunk of my

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  ). It's a pretty good gig. My second job is working front desk in my dorm ... Development. I am going to help build a satellite! It is going to space! I am going to help build something going to space! This is a capstone class for

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  we do some memeing around these parts memes i've made so far on campus

  

  with free drawing software"]"Photoshop"[/annotation] a lot in my free ... I love memes. I can't help it—I'm a Gen Z'er, so I grew up on the Internet with meme classics like Nyan Cat and Gangnam Style. Memes play a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  in the French system is very different from getting an A+ in the US ... ) and Math (Course XVIII), but ultimately I graduated with a degree in ... eastern culture is awesome to discover." Well, I'm picking up a bit of Hindi

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  ’m gonna get this done so early! I’m going to put so much time and energy in ... is coming up! I completely forgot! And oh wow! The deadline is only a ... to get work done) in order to finish my application. After a short

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  about 2001, when it finally got a much-needed makeover). In a ranking of ... you in high school. If your parents are professionals, there's a much ... teller and her dad is a truck driver. My mom works in an elementary school

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  of the future. In a blogpost I wrote not too long ago that is now ... solid in form, more real. The image that forms my head is a little fuzzy ... a lot about (2) in particular. These past couple of days I've been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  also keep a wait list of students. Is the wait list ranked? No. How ... here. How does the wait list work? We are aiming for a class of about ... students again in May, when we know how many students remain on the wait list

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  't have to know how to cook to live in a dorm with kitchens. I live in ... talk about such a big issue when it's currently in a state of development. What I will discuss is how the current dining system at MIT operates

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009