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• 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.

  

  of the Kevlar fuselage. How did you steer the plane in the taxi ... ...weight tends to creep up on you unexpectedly.") Can we touch it? No. Final ... /Build/Fly competition, and as hats flew and hair rippled in 30+ mph wind, it became clear

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

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  accept more than 13% of their applicants then, thank you very much.” I got ... organizations where I fit in and can talk about my interests with like ... until very, very late in the game. I first started researching colleges

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  . Unfortunately, there is none. You can certainly can try to help your chances. You can spend July buffing up your technical skills in calculus. You can ... are reading this post. If you are in high school, you may be looking for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  arrangement of classes where you can both graduate on time and also write ... , when you count one two three four five six seven, you realize that this ... . Lol. (if you know me please imagine that in my actual voice). [caption

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  Freshman orientation for the Class of 2018 officially begins in two ... participate in one of 22 Freshman Pre-Orientation Programs (FPOPs), which offer students an early introduction to in the social life of learning at MIT. As

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Only You Have The Power Only YOU have the power to decide your own worth. Don't ever, ever, ever give…

  

  a good option. Because in life, every hand can be a winner if you play ... say it simply guys... only YOU have the power to decide your own worth ... teachers, and don't give it to MIT. Those people can all make decisions that

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn in New England The trees explode with color.

  

  I've been lucky enough to be able to enjoy autumn in New England recently. For those of you in regions that do not have four seasons: autumn ... you can see, Cambridge is still only showing "some color."

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  , but ten times: my top five and my bottom five. Can you guess which is ... items in the cart which you might say was a premonition or a prophecy of ... its plastic contents up and down in a discordant symphony? How can one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  soon as it is empty. You can barely see it in this photo, but this room ... currently vacant, which means that one of you will probably live in it next ... out in two weeks that you've been placed in Random Hall. =)

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  home. Although money can help place you in experiences that will enrich ... celebrations and fireworks. I kept a blog (which you can read at gabehikestheat ... and hiked to central Maine, traversing over 2,181 miles in four months

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  answer is just this - In college, you have an amazing opportunity to try a ... fruitful one for me. To recap: Late May -> Early July: Back in Taiwan ... Without Borders - the Taiwanese version) into the Aborigines villages in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  easier than it could’ve been. [annotation note="You see this in some other ... The first time I ever stepped on a skateboard was in 2015, which was also the year that Marty McFly time-traveled to from 1985 in Back to the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  've been holed up in my room doing work for the past few days unless you ... around in college. I guess I have to recognize that things can't always ... one, but know that you'll turn out alright in the long run. You are so

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  You Are LUSCIOUS I lusciously answer some of your questions

  

  of the mail/website, you can get an idea for the "vibe" of each college ... connect you to resources or people that can. Some of those people can be ... culture first-hand. If you can, come to campus for a visit

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  . Weekends are for recharging. Where are you, PNR? *hosed: in a constant ... see. Freshmen Pass/No Record is officially over. May you rest in peace ... 'm already hosed*. I've been counting down the days until Spring Break. 29

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  We Want You! Write for us!

  

  attend CPW to write an entry > You must use paragraphs in your entry ... sweat, you can still submit a blog entry without prior warning. Please ... participate in CPW as well, but it's really about the prefrosh experience, which

  • by Snively '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  little loopy. In any case, I hope you appreciate algorithms as much as I ... up this Thursday ( O.O ahh ), and in the process of studying for it, I've realized how much I love it. <3 Every algorithm we've learned in the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  you can’t really go wrong with a nerdy name. The getfit website (http://getfit.mit.edu/) has a function where you can enter your minutes and see other teams ... . The first is that you can see the minutes entered by your team members

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  ridiculously detailed records of my life... I guess you could say I was born for keeping a lab notebook), and even in my journal at age 9 I included a rundown of what I considered to be the essential statistics in my life: "My

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  Wells, who pitched 8 1/3 solid innings. After a Gary Sheffield single in ... head alumni interviewer in the Birmingham area. Dr. Fleisig is the Smith ... graduated from MIT with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1984. Clara is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005