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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  two freebie posts; for fall and spring semester, you can write about ... .022 for weeks, and taking 18.02 -- a less challenging multivariable calculus ... Kemp -- and talked with him about it for a few minutes. He was busy, but

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  October, and kept working on it for the next few weeks. And then months. And ... share of fun and silliness. But for all of high school I was relatively ... ’d come home and lie on the floor for a couple hours to slowly recoup my

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  MIT campus is defined and elevated by its people, and for this blogpost ... it here). He had to choose between MIT and the Naval Academy; his ... for drills and drones in place of auto-rifles and grenades. Next to the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  hours for me to fall asleep and it is really hard to stay asleep. At 1am ... just thrown up for the second time in two hours and felt awful.  This is ... not much more I could do, and I set my alarm for an hour later so I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  quantify all their choices, and there is a post hoc rationalization for ... early and on time, do your work for long hours, and hope to win the favor ... people who are not interns staying for a month) and there is never any

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  difficulties trying to save money for the SAT and TOEFL exams. At last, I have ... department at MIT interests you and why?'" First, I should note that it has no ... - remember that we have no quotas for majors, which is why you apply to MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  an MP3 player program on it and started taking requests for shower ... and thus dreamed for years and years of setting up something equally ... For those of you wondering, I ended up working only until the first 2

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  your understanding of the opponent, and visually has a lot of room for ... going for it is it's candy theming and pleasing visuals. It's simplicity ... , plus extras for OLs and staff, we'd need 16,200 cut cards. I wanted to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  for; he lives in Maine, and invited friends to go visit at the end of ... MIT, where I unpacked and braced myself for a week of orientation ... (turns out I'm That Person Who Cries For The Entire Ceremony), eight of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  in the videos, to my best friends Diann Huynh and Chielo Mbaezue for participating, and then of course everyone at MIT for appearing)!!! If you would ... was hard, and I of course I had been mentally preparing myself for that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  spent a lot of time closely inspecting and growing a deep love for the ... list here with the additions of the '12-'17 bezels and older bezels going ... year and wear the beaver "sitting" on them until graduation. At

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  between high school and MIT. I'm hopeful that after this successful panel ... Birthday" for students with birthdays over the weekend and introduced ... , offering performances and games for prospective students. Desiree Amadeo, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  any of the classrooms and see hordes of hyperactive chillin's running ... headdresses, and wielding construction paper bows and arrows, chasing around the ... deep underneath a basketball court, behind several locked doors, and

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  Freshman orientation for the Class of 2018 officially begins in two ... paper clothing. Travel to Colorado and Northern New Mexico. Spend a day ... Engineering DC1: Discover Course 1 DEAPS: Discover Earth, Atmospheric and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  Sometime in the last four years, between graduation and, oh, a week ... introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a ... for thrashing about, taking hold of whatever comes near you, and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  plates is rarely an issue, and you don’t have to wait for various machines ... ’s no permanent damage machines can record. And for the moment I ... some inches down and then some inches up again.    I signed up for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  didn’t end in .mit.edu, except for Google and a few random others. Late ... of when and how to use them for yourself. Of course, the more you use ... – Engineering Leadership. It’s a short class required by the GEL program, and

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  more difficult. In the summer between sophomore and junior year at MIT I ... (standard name for the airport you skydive at) was about an hour away and ... jump out all by yourself and are responsible for pulling your own chute

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  congratulated him for surviving the experience and saving us $200 at the vet ... ) and as having a “lust for life”.[/annotation] He loves food, going ... and optimization for my PhD. I had actually been interested in controls

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  the library and pulled a book off the shelves at random for leisure ... style that relies on blurring the line between fantasy and reality. Sorry ... IAP, as you might have heard, is a fun and exciting time to be at MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008