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• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  on a tangent about my sailing PE class at some point. (If you were ... that. But if you were, as a matter of fact, you’re right! I have a story about sailing. I’m a “story” kind of a person. I structure a lot of my

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  about the hackathons that happened all the way back at the beginning of October. I spent this past week trying to get all of my work done before ... Monday morning but instead I'm catching on all of my blog post writing

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  skipped band. Terrified at the prospect of my school calling my parents to ... period and couldn't bear the thought of going to class. So, unable to face ... . The essence of her response was: it's fine, do what you need to do, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  was a simulated base attack, and some of the cadets were "injured" at ... pretty stressful at times, and at the end of the day I was exhausted, I can ... C/4C Claire Nieman '13 On Sunday, 25 October, the cadets of MIT's Air

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  graduate. It's a pretty sweet deal, with the exception of getting up at 6 AM ... 't remember any of it. My earliest memory is from 1987. I'm 10 months old, looking at the display on the microwave, while my mother holds me and gives

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before ... . People at MIT don't compare GPAs (I didn't know any of my friends' GPAs ... Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  happy to introduce you to MacGregor, MIT's only dorm composed of all ... out of pasta. Or Mountain Dew. MacGregor is divided into nine "entries"; an entry forms the basic social unit of the dorm. The entries are named

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  kind of preferential "bump" to students who apply to MIT during Early ... we have received a number of questions from prospective students who ... ,[/annotation] receive grades, obtain letters of recommendation, or otherwise develop their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  East Campus and ask some of the clubs at MIT to use their boba for ... proximity to so many creative and amazing individuals, and right now is one of them. I present to you: A BOBA MACHINE LOOK AT THIS MIRACLE THAT HAS

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  The writing process is different for every one of your favorite ... sit at a computer for hours writing out an entire post in one sitting. I use a variety of tools to help me, from Evernote for keeping track of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  taking advantage of opportunities I didn't have at home ^_^)  In any case ... ... that is another bite of my life at MIT. As has been a frequent ... You may have heard of the MIT Flying Club, which I'm not actually

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re Not Alone Even if you think you are.

  

  :00 - 11:00 AM: The last two thirds of cell biology lecture (I miss the first ... home after astronomy when my phone rang. It was Julianna, one of my ICE ... a couple of hours, and I found myself lying on the floor of the lounge

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • October 17, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  into the apartment, and have all kinds of grownup things like furniture ... by Saturday night, but we really didn't clean out all of the boxes ... 's worth of clothes so you don't have to unpack and then repack your temp

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  the first day of classes is Tuesday, YIKES! But I didn't get through IAP without learning a little bit, at least. Let's hop in the Techno ... 'd spend 4 hours every Saturday at etiquette school trying to learn how to

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  cpw 2026 camera roll dump three mysteries and two tributes

  

  pictures and videos of at CPW. There are three mysteries; maybe other ... At Meet the Bloggers this year, a prefrosh came up to me and saw my shirt and said "I know you." This happens at most MTBs. Then he said: "you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  teaching abroad program! All of my weekdays were spent teaching at local ... or train to the destination of my choice. While there were about a ... lonely towards the end of the month. But I did appreciate getting to see

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Listen to “MIT Is…” with Cynthia F. ‘18 on the MIT Trashion Show, escaping the MIT bubble, and UROPing at the Media Lab

  

  around the idea of an audio thing for awhile, and decided to give it a shot. One of the people we'd been kicking it around with is Kellen Manning ... Twitter, Instagram, and tumblr, among others. You can think (as I do) of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Solicitation You've got questions. I'll have answers tomorrow night.

  

  queen you are at MIT is a pale shadow of the drama queen you were in high ... I have multiple things to admit here. 1. My arms kind of hurt from ... particularly inspired to wax philosophical. So I want questions about life at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  after quarter after quarter. It reminds me of a conversation I had at my ... puzzles from an issue of P&A Magazine together. The last time the Puzzle ... I ate dinner at Dumpling House with some friends. It's only been a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  /7. In case you're curious, I've seen all of the above, or at least very ... : "Did you have to do the lab by yourself? no lab groups? Speaking of which ... individual, not as part of a group. However, you are allowed to collaborate

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005