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• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  at its finest Supposedly it provides 1/3 of all the electrical power to ... of Sufjan Stevens's because Sufjan Stevens is a proper noun as well as ... middle of Boston Harbor. Why? Well, sometime over the summer Conner 2

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  before my senior year of high school, I went to meet with the IB ... strategy. I presented her with my list of colleges, mostly state schools with a few oddball private schools thrown in there. Nothing on the level of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  Once I was at a fancy banquet-type event, one of the ones where they ... fend of fictional post-apocalyptic bad guys. At one point he asked the ... , sparkling peach, a couple of berries, a needle-thin stick with a pale green

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  bouncing at the thought of seeing animals alongside going on fun rides. We ... mini games. Your points are tallied at the end of the ride and compared ... , especially at amusement parks. But here, and now, at the age of 20 years old

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... you get older, time has a way of sneaking up and past you, the way that, for many people, one's birthday shifts from being a moment of annual

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  Wednesday, and Friday, I was invited to interview at one of my other top ... Escargots." One of the things I promised myself is that this year I would try ... a whooping $6 in 26-100 were: Fantastic Planet Courtest of

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  fairly regularly. In my years at MIT, I've seen sneaks of such films as 8 Mile and Grosse Pointe Blank, and missed sneaks of School of Rock and ... I just returned from seeing an LSC free sneak preview of I Heart

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  you’re some kind of pro, but it was a pretty big deal to me, at the time ... , my suitemate and I had gotten into the habit of it. We’d[annotation note="a near impossible task to ask of two 19 year old college students

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  , I'm really bad at guessing the ending of anything. Even mystery movies ... off because of the negative audience reaction to her. I think if you ... that the aggressiveness was sort-of how she wanted to be perceived with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  it did.  At the end of my freshman year at MIT, I declared brain and ... going to learn anything at all? And that scared the crap out of me – the ... those of you who don’t see your interests aligning with engineering at

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  performing all kinds of outrageous intellectual feats at the whims of the ... they could possibly mean. At some point, one of my friends decided to try ... the 31 passages. Combing through "The Eye of Argon" at 3am with two very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  . Luhrmann actually abuses the line in this context instead of at the end of ... each character is gazing at the reflection of themselves. Does loves show ... -screencaps If you think you’ve just stumbled into the wrong part of the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  waving rainbow pom poms and cheering at the top of their lungs. The day ... importance of iteration. We performed this test several times at the local fire ... For some schools, the biggest events of the year are rambunctious

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) 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 ... experience in a design team at a modern product development firm. As part of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  portrait of Asian Americanness. “At the Clinic” by Sally Rooney I love ... of the Rice Chest” by Monica Youn My friend Alec attended the L.A. Times Festival of Books recently and heard Monica Youn read this poem

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  With all the WiFi problems in [annotation note="One of the big ... . Luckily, the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) is always ahead of the curve, using ... -ever rehearsal with digital sheet music this Monday! When I joined MITWE at the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... weeks, I know many of you are eager to start thinking about how you ... to get to know different aspects of each individual. Here are this year

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working ... technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students are working ... Nina writing to you from the computer room of the Fundacion, the NGO we

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  wrote to the president of MIT at the time, and asked for his opinion first ... befitting an Institute of Technology. (Just writing that sentence made me feel ... hipster. You just don't TALK about this kind of thing) For example, I

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  would be good to have at least a rough outline of what you'd like to see ... as many of your options as possible. Campus visits really helped me ... generation of MIT students. CPW will be all kinds of fun. Click here to browse

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009