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• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  Today I will tell you how to get into MIT. You get into MIT by wearing thick, waterproof shoes, because the road to MIT is paved with slush ... gleaned from a morning of traipsing from car-to-door with luggage stuffed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  Kansas City, I had a 6.006 (Intro to Algorithms) midterm later that day ... throwback to last year's Eastern Sectionals, as I was vying for a spot on the ... myself mentally and physically fit to compete was one giant monster in and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an ... exciting, because MIT students take "awesome" and "we can" to a whole new ... , since she's always loved musical theater, began to throw around the idea

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  long showers. “Oh, I gotta remember to audition for a capella!” “I could ... green next time I visit East Campus. It’d be so cool to live there, too ... . Prior to the visit, I was terrified of taking Biology at MIT. After CPW

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  -lost enough to tread memory lane, at least two events stand out in my mind ... -generation... If both your parents went to MIT... If you intend to major in the ... to political identities, from cultural backgrounds to academic

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  " lisp program at age seven, to my sixth grade blackjack games and "hello ... Tonight's blog entry is brought to you by Cam, a resident of CAMbridge, the owner of a CAMera, and an early action acceptee to the MIT

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  cook every other week. I enjoy competing in the unofficial game of try-to ... wonderfully convenient, allowing me to cook often enough to enjoy it and not so ... , since you have to cook for around 20-30 people, and not all recipes are

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  heading to MIT one hour and then think that I wasn't getting into my ... know the professors will accept it. So I wanted to reach out to you, MIT ... College Confidential forums. Now, don't go to these, but there are whole

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  to meet two parents (hello!) who follow the blogs. They tell me that ... those who leave comments are applicants, I would love to hear from some of the many parents out there. It would be great to "meet" you! The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  voice. In the process of learning how to put together an effective piece ... covering everything from Kanye’s visit to Harvard’s design school and a birth on a D.C. metro platform to wild architectural proposals and all the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  possible. We wanted our plane, Corn Dog, to fly all three of our missions ... have an opportunity to re-fly tomorrow for better scores. However, when we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  together. So when you visit, you're going to get out of my way when I ... Since it's summer tour season and my path to work keeps getting ... nice time to talk about MIT's campus organization. My goal is to teach

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  until I get a chance to get all the pictures together, here's a poem I ... ." Today, 3/4, is unofficially national marching band day. Get it? Anyway, to celebrate, I was going to do an entry about the MIT marching band's slush

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  following conversation: F: i think you need to change the game settings and ... , because i’ve never been good at rhythm games and have relatively slow ... : there are four pads on the ground, each corresponding to an arrow

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  have students submit to that theme. And so I pieced together the a ... all of the students that took time this summer to put together the blog ... about to get incredibly busy again (and after three months of relative

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  stop by Random Hall (and I happen to be home, and you recognize me) I ... , double-canopy umbrella. It was, according to Amazon, the BMW of umbrellas ... out to amazing music. I ate free food. I got Chris M. to autograph my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  York. It was a bust. My team left halfway through and I gave up trying to ... technology. A blockchain is basically a list of records linked together with ... just talking about the blockchain. I wanted to actually code something

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  together. We were basically talked through a scenario where we had to assess ... cool to see everything come together. Then all of a sudden you realize ... the Early Admits to the class of '10 as I possibly could. And it was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  direction to that of the circle traced out by your arm, hence the term ... . It's fun to nerd out about the mathematical intricacies of poi spinning ... way the flower imagery bridges rigid geometry with the living and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  Last week I had my first exam, shortly to be followed by two others, and I'm happy to say that I suffer from this painful disease that seems ... deadly since there are little to no signs when you're first afflicted

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007