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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  like starting class at 10 am. And I really like that my day ends at 2 pm ... , that's almost as much time as I spent in class in high school! Hopefully ... - I really do mean it. A case in point: last semester, Melis and I ended

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  our shared ambitions of livestreaming graduation from our hats, I ... slowly that I had to really simplify the rig, which ended up consisting of ... The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  ago. Ending of the first season made my jaw drop and I realized like a ... One thing about me is I love science fiction. Whether it be movies ... future technology and future societies can look like. I actually talked a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  supermarkets. The end seemed nigh. And the gigantic flamethrower I ordered was ... is this mystery man from the North; I fear and love c), because that is ... Happy Labor Day Weekend y'all! I'm up north in my ancestral woods of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  My high school didn’t have the broadest range of athletic options, so I've always been excited about finding new rec’ stuff to try out in ... shiny football stadium. Nevertheless, I was surprised to find MIT more

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  . In the end, I'm glad I came here, absolutely. I learned so much about ... ! Fast forward to staging before the march to Killian I ended up with ... pictures. Awwww By the end of the day I was exhausted and ended up just

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  need to end this because I've used all of urban vernacular (slang) that I ... My grandfather was from Milledgeville, Georgia. He was a simple man ... 'd simply raise his left arm high over his head and point to his watch with

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  warrants two blog entries. This is not because I want to hog the MITAdmissions home page or because I just like seeing my own face, it's simply ... separated into two distinct entries. If you'll kindly remember, I have this

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  ,” which I ended up taking this past spring, and (to put it simply) thought ... the error. Personally, I followed the logic right to the end and couldn ... post ended up being much longer than expected (lel sorry) but I hope it

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  citizens or no, since I never did research in high school. Also to be honest ... I'm so jet-lagged! And completely slap-happy! Yayyyy! Today's events: 6:45 AM -- Arrive in Boston. I actually sort of slept on the plane

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  with z e r o cooking experience and I mainly would just buy ingredients ... junior year high school. Can't really comment much on sports since I don ... Chambers MIT's gym near dorm row, The Z Center, is probably the nicest gym I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  now and then I wear a Notre Dame hat around campus - and I was wearing ... actually I went to MIT. And the man said, "Ahh," and I asked him, in return ... I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and stare at the clock, and I'd count down the time left in the class period ... halfway there." And I'd repeat this throughout the class. It became almost a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  research on X and Y and like teaching about Z; or the people I know from high ... : I hope that this blog doesn’t end up as just a “professional” blog ... well with a group in the same way that I did with my high school friends

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  remember being in high school reading the blogs about the brass rat, and I ... semester that never surfaced after school ended. I mentioned briefly above ... the side. I ended up giving away a lot of my art supplies since I knew I

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  bills to pay I wish I had no bills to pay Man up, to stay put I wish I ... senioritis in high school, but i think i have it now. i can think of many reasons why i didn't get it when i was a high school senior. i was dealing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  like. I didn’t visit many colleges outside of my local area in high ... about their personal experiences. When I entered high school and became ... the end of the week, and I'm really excited to be part of it! Balance My

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  drive around from a basic list of materials.  By the end of lab, I ... high." For several days I iterate and iterate on a design (nicknamed ... prototypes.  But the high speed motors I'm using don't have enough torque to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  's Big Island. ... Angle co-founded iRobot in 1990, not long after ... voicecracks and so forth. However, I am happy to say this is quite false. True, mirrors break when I look in them, but that is because I am so handsome that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  have a smart phone, I highly recommend finding someone who has one and ... you. If you have not comMITted, then I highly recommend attending some ... AHHH CPW!!! Was the name of my last blog post I wrote prior to CPW

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014