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• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  consider IB and AP at the same level of course rigour? 40% of last year's AP ... grade i did well at school..i am into a lot of extra curricular activities ... . But there are a lot of things I do at home, just because I am interested

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  , Fred Harris (the director of MITWE) was going through the semester ... the middle of the rainforest! But I was also a little suspicious. The ... in the Sonic Jubilance concert in the second week of the semester. You

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  you want to do for, potentially, the rest of your life. Even here at MIT ... For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is ... . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  of the Super Secret Student Marketing Team. At that time it was just ... , wrote some things, designed some things, and gave away a bunch of ... of the experiment to see what would happen if we took four students

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope ... many things to-do. The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master. [caption id="attachment_58052" align="aligncenter" width="300"] 31 days of being

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and ... flight, drifting in and out of sleep --   and then i was back and i met a lot of new people, including our amazing new bloggers, and i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  fantastic showcase of the various arts and performance groups at MIT:   ... rehearsing the lights for MIT's 100-year-anniversary of its move to Cambridge ... on the seal playfully arguing about the merits of theory vs. practice

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  could take your mind off of things for a while? Just in time, the blogs ... video game nerds. Order of the Stick D&D comes to life, basically ... . Addicting Games Miscellaneous Wikipedia But at least it's an informative

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  intelligent conclusions. In the words of the late Aaliyah, "If at first you don ... project done for one of my classes, 2.671, Measurement and Instrumentation. Basically, the project was designed to have us develop some type of scientific

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  , super biology queen Mollie says, "I'm sure at least some of the foam is due to proteins and oils sloughed off the skin of the people on the ... sending water + people goo down a water slide at high speed), you get

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  Note: I am shamelessly stealing the title of this entry from Sam '07 ... . The weather at MIT has been delicious the past week or so. My friends ... ), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  On Tuesday, a group of which I am a member had a large meeting in ... $3 Our group is the Association of Student Activities (ASA), and we ... ) organize some of the flyers we need to distribute to representatives of each

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  Hi everyone, I am back in town after a crazy day of traveling across ... a lot and discuss it with some of my superiors (for those of you just ... issues such as suicide. I respect the sentiments of the original poster

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  teenagers felt like one of my biggest achievements at MIT. Because finally, I ... Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia ... Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  the disconnect I feel, and I'd probably feel out of place at any of the ... at least some representation of Devi and her mother understanding each ... . 1 trending series on Netflix right now, garnered a lot of attention

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  summer i hit my ceiling of the amount of things i can work on at once that ... i put upon myself the task of writing a website i liked. at first i ... one here is one of my tiny struggles over the past few weeks, and it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  live at MIT and have a taste of independence. After returning home and ... In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... -year at Northeastern University!"]younger sister[/annotation] stayed home on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  the edges of the rain fly enough. There was a swimming pool at either ... Have you ever had your car pulled out of a parking lot muddy field by ... 's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  Christmas present that cost around $20, which at the time was a lot of money ... Random Hall has six types of rooms, discernible by the last digit of their room numbers. Each of the four floors is concentric with the shaft

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  is “one of those”, you might say). He runs through his hangouts at ... ’t seen you guys at all this year,” referring to our mutual group of friends ... look at everything, between all the craziness of planning.)   

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015