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• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  ) Make some kind of scrapbook/album of your time at MIT Travel and eat ... Take Off - September 6, 2017 I've Been Staring At The Edge of The ... drop silence of the reading room is honestly better suited for taking

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  . We walked all the way to Central Square, surprised at the number of ... some of my friends who were international students wouldn’t go home because it’s too far, or because there’s only a break of two weeks before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  fresh quinoa. There were at least five tables full of food and drinks. The ... have their own class. Suzy Nelson is just at the start of her journey ... ' through the Stata Center, when out the corner of my eye, I saw this pretty

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  in the mainstream, so for a department at one of the world’s most ... to people should be gendered at all, instead advocating the use of a ... opinion of it. I’ve been thinking about it throughout the day, and felt it

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  stomach hurt, I was out of breath, and my butt was NOT happy at bumping over ... I'm currently in Missoula, Montana: hometown of ze boyfriend. When I ... control of the bike and threw myself off before it fell into a rock pit) and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you relate them? Some of my favorite guesses? "MIT is obviously ... installed solar panels." "Ninjas at MIT used solar panels to attack the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  blink of the eye really in the scheme of things, back across the years that made all the difference in the world to me, or none at all, depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  deal with Simon & Schuster! So in September 2018, at the very beginning of my sophomore year at MIT, I signed with my wonderful agent, Penny ... for hours, staring at the ceiling, contemplating whether or not life has

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  ) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products. From the website: In ... teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build working alpha

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  's definitely not what I expected to produce, but at least I have a basic idea of ... First off: I apologize for the shakiness of this video. For some ... timelapse component of the video kind of failed, too. It turns out that when

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  at old requirements for admission.  Last year I posted our essay ... next year, they won't; every year, we sort of reassess the questions ... on. You can think of essay questions as instruments which elicit a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  around in the most godawful turquoise bathrobe ever sold at Costco. (I ... health with the power of time, the love of my parents, and the mesquite goodness of Barbeque Lay's (okay, so maybe to mediocre health). And I can

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  man fresh out of college would drive 90 miles each way to his new job as ... time staying awake while on the road, so he would stop at the Woodrow ... secretly longed for the day when he would not have to spend 3.5 hours of his

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  that there are all sorts of folks at MIT. For example, there is no majority ethnicity. MIT is about 35% white, 25% asian (of some persuasion ... % International, and our minority community provides all of the cultural resources

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus, version 2.0 More pictures!

  

  As promised, I come bearing more pictures, Some of these are courtesy of Hanna, Dorota, and Jake, all fellow frosh. Here are some from the ... lounge Some of the Haus frosh hanging out in one of our suites: In the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  next few weeks, I'll be highlighting one of my classes in each entry. This week, I'll start off with one of my most popular classes, 2.007, Design and Manufacturing I. The basic goal of the class is to design and

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waiting (is the hardest part)

  

  , there are two factors at work here. First, we are committed to admitting no more than 30% of our class during early action. We feel that the ... that by leaving only a very small number of spaces for regular action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  Happy new year everyone! I've been out with the flu most of this week so I'm feeling horribly behind in most areas of life. Being sick just blows. Most of the time I can ignore it and power ahead, but the flu

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  reports) to remind me of the pleasant times spent at Makerlodge this ... Welcome to the first of the many blogs I have meant to write but just ... -years could participate in, and I immediately did the online portion of the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  useful, but every entry has a flavor of MIT to it and, when looked at as a ... bloggers. Read all of the headers at the top of the page. Read Newsweek ... The MIT Admissions blogs started for several reasons. One of the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008