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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  . My flight was the red-eye out of SFO on Friday night at 10:20 PM, and ... -In. Finally, I was at the head of the line. Time check. 9:20 PM. I had an hour ... you’ll never get service at all. I managed to get closer to one of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  a great success rate this year: Jane Doe: accepted at the School of Science, John Smith: accepted at the School of Engineering, Someone Else: accepted at the School of International Studies, That OtherOne: accepted at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  Center. A few of you were curious about the facilities, so I thought I ... taking pictures of sweaty people for future blackmail purposes. It ... view of the lobby: Walk up the stairs from another entrance, and you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  -hi-uh" -- Adam always makes fun of my *nonexistent* accent after I've been at home ... -related stuff while at home, and I'm not just talking about the education I always ... night was the annual MIT Club of Central Ohio holiday get-together, where

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  In 4 weeks, you will leave home for an academic journey of 4 years. Commence the packing process! Frantic scrambling. Wading through piles of ... . There are no restrictions on memories, and pictures of family and friends

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  the States, and I've been happily living at Berkeley, CA, for the last 2 weeks. I'm working in Oakland, at an Asian health center there, serving as one of their summer interns. I'm really learning a lot (including more

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  out, too. Carly wrote, "I'm kind of worried about the food situation at ... -a-week plan like many of my friends at other colleges, which allowed me to 1 ... MIT? What are your lingering concerns? Etc. Here are some of yesterday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  unless they are in my dinner.) Luckily, I don't think the test will be of ... good GPA, and (most importantly) have a lot of research experience, including two publications and three glowing letters of recommendation. Of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  section of my analysis. In the plot below, I looked at the percentage point ... Several classes I've taken at MIT use a platform called gradescope ... respond with a message of their own explaining their rationale. I ended up

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  kind of took it for granted at home. You know what? I actually thought ... to volunteer at an orphanage and cancer centers in Mexico City. Of ... all about The Month of March. Not that it's over. But it's pretty much

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  ; A fountain at the entrance of the Watergate building, my first day at ... Yesterday, Friday, was my third day working at the Atlantic. I ... heavier. I spent yesterday in a newsroom, with the weight and force of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship

  

  While I was busily at work on your Campus Preview Weekend (April 7 ... first national title since 1974 by upsetting the U.S. Naval Academy at the ... yesterday's math competition win by MIT was unsurprising to some of you, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 22, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  -year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2026 is now live. You can ... remember that, as I wrote last year, we do not give any kind of preferential ... new and more prominent links to relevant FAQs throughout the application

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  teaching and learning philosophy of MIT, and exactly what makes it this burning furnace that, through a lot of heat and pressure, turns all of its ... cool, and also touches on a lot of the general reasons as to why MIT is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  I included this picture in a previous blog. I was tired of working, and it reminded me of the good times at MIT. Well, in Honduras, but related to MIT. Going to Honduras was a sort of Grand Finale to a class I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  available at the rink. Fitness For Life This class is comprised of aerobic ... test certificate at the first class. Squash Introduction of the basic ... 's Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER) is in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  other relatives that all decided to meet up at the same time. One of the ... just ended up trying on weird outfits at the behest of the employees. I ... simultaneously begging for mercy, I had to intervene at times for the sake of my

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  definitely see why 2.009 was one of the most famous classes at MIT. Although I ... . If you want a summary of what 2.009 is about, Chris made a post. 140 ... ." Each presentation was seven minutes long followed by four minutes of Q

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  ” the same as “poor time management” is that, at the end of the day, we ... blocks and periods of crushing inability to blag.   But of course ... absolutely nothing in particular. In one of my 7.013 lectures as a freshman

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  Horror was, to the chagrin of many, actually a fairly watered-down version ... , and tons of music and dancing. I highly recommend it as a Halloween activity, if not necessarily for the content, then at least for the musical

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013