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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  department of defense to pay for my education. I'm sworn in as a midshipman ... never considered majoring in it. I came to MIT with every intention of ... points for anyone who can tell me where I got the phrase). We all see the

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

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  one of your comments, and I can't answer every question right now, but ... know this. I confirmed as of this evening (Wednesday) that admits in at ... being selected RA if I've been deferred? I can think of some EA

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  I FINALLY PASSED THE SWIM TEST!!!! 3.5 years late hehe

  

  ="368"] the moment of truth. let's see if i can swim 100 continuous meters...[/caption] [caption id="attachment_110810" align="aligncenter" width="381"] I CAN!! I PASSED WOOOO[/caption] Now I can graduate!! Yay!!!!

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  warm-ups can be helpful in certain situations, and that facilitators of ... (in the style of the This is Fine dog), and I guess you could think ... I am not a fan of icebreakers. It already takes a not

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  I am sure that many of you have read blogs about Greek life from some ... distinguished Xi Tau chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Keep in mind ... projects. Members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity participate in the March of

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  afloat in the comforting bubble of MIT, so it didn’t really matter. I had ... sinks in what he’s accusing me of, and as he begins to say “why can’t you ... profanities at him until he’s in the bus and out of sight. I turn around, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  more people in a day than I would in a week of high school, I felt ... at any moment—all experiences that I think many of my classmates can ... ’ll take it all in stride, and I’m very excited for the rest of the semester!

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  people are really interested in the experience of female students at MIT. I ... people are interested in this question, I find it decidedly odd... sort of ... or sections in many of the other dorms. Personally, I'm more in the "I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  's folder is a story. When I'm "in the zone," I don't notice the monotony of ... camera phone here at the library.) I sit in the same chair every day and try to look mysterious so that other people in the library will think I

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  in many of my old blogs, but I never wrote about it in a single place ... . When my daughter was living in McCormick, I asked her one day what she ... to provide a 40-minute seminar in their field of research to the group

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  decisions in mid-March. Should I send in a whole new version of my application ... MIT application into your other applications. Should I send in extra ... , which can be downloaded off of the MyMIT website. Your semester grades are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  don’t know how long my body can sustain this level of non-activity. I do ... just wanted to mention this because I’m assuming that some of you can ... ’t notice, I’m a newborn in the blogging world, with this being my very first

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  I live in Massachusetts. I am a freshman. I am in college. I go to MIT. Even though I have been repeating these phrases over and over in my head for the past 2 weeks that I have been on campus, I still can

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  of them. But I’m extremely averse to dropping classes later on in the ... chapters of the novel I’d written in summer and received good feedback. I ... makerspaces, in and out of 2.007. I grew comfortable on many machines and began

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  , I was comfortable with all of these tools, thanks in large part to the ... Below is one of the robots I built for 2.007, MIT's extremely popular ... "robot" I ever built, on the first day of 2.007: Before I took 2.007, I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  thing. I highly suggest it!) So does this mean that you can pour all of ... community college) and get good grades in them. And, of course, you can get ... -- i.e., that that would be measured by an very large MIT in the limit of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  regular action, regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of ... regular action, and I'd guess that number will be in that neighborhood again ... report. You can download one off of the website if you need one. Your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  next few weeks, I'll be highlighting one of my classes in each entry. This week, I'll start off with one of my most popular classes, 2.007, Design and Manufacturing I. The basic goal of the class is to design and

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  created to measure. Maybe I’m just a nerd who has taken a lot of tests in ... gotten into a (minor) accident by the ripe age of 19. In a way, I was ... ’t understand and lyrics of prepubescent pop stars I already can’t relate to. For

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  no resolution in sight, I sent the following at the end of the day: I ... CPW is Monday, April 2, 2007. That's in five days! I know you're all ... . ------------------------------------------------------- The Waitlist I've gotten a bunch of correspondence asking about the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007