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• Blog / Admissions

  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  of idealized MIT. The more I read, the more I learned, the more I ... , in the urban locale of Boston and in the cosmopolitan Northeast? "In." If only I were to get in, I thought, I'd be set. My life would be made

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  'm actually officially no longer a freshman (woo!). The amount of things I have to say, though, is inversely proportional to the amount of energy I ... challenge. I found him the next morning shacked up in the Athena cluster

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  to us later on, "Sure is a lot of brass in here isn't there?" When I ... rest of the ceremony I was thinking about the cadet in the video and how ... in the Air Force." Both men instantly had my respect. One of the many

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lewis Music Library Tra la la

  

  Instead of writing only about student life, I'm gonna try to write ... they were in braids for the photo.) Each of the 19 glass panels on the ... keeps the most recent copies of each out for browsing. In addition to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  With two Central Meetings down and two to go in the Bay Area, I ... -- it should be great, since I really feed off of the energy of large crowds. If you're in the South Bay, I look forward to seeing you there!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  was one of my favorite restuarants in Chinatown: Taiwan Cafe. Taiwan ... (and most expensive) movie theater. When I walked in, I saw a big crowd ... course, I was one of the many folks who didn't get tickets. Instead, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Motivation Finals are FUN!

  

  semester, it was cancelled, so I was out of luck. So this term, since I knew ... for my final tomorrow. Final Exam 1 of 1 Wednesday December 20, 2006 9 AM to 12 PM 20.430: Fields, Forces, and Flows in Biological Systems

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  things to do in three and a half days of little sleep. I would love to ... posts in the shower, dreaming of the day I could apply to be an admissions ... in the fall), and hallways of the Infinite. I felt courageous enough to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  . As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour-long activity of its own, called "Deliver!" The goal of "Deliver!" is to build ... the ship models and viewed parts of lectures on robotics in Course 2. We

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  A couple entries ago, I described 6.046 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms), one of the classes I'm taking the semester. We have a test coming up this Thursday ( O.O ahh ), and in the process of studying for it, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  I was most interested in the performance of the flight and of the ... didn't compete in aerobatics. One of the students I knew was an MIT ... about environmental sustainability. In that post, I wrote:   This is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  so at first. In senior year of high school, I was not understanding AP ... My childhood best friend changed schools in 8th grade, so I didn ... confession would confirm - escaping math and science was one of the things I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  treatment in the spring of 2004 when the young Italian rider was, as Cote puts ... about a UROP that appeared in yesterday's Boston Globe, New England ... researcher at the MIT Center for Sports Innovation, has an impressive list of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  my new job I started getting cold feet in terms of bringing up my ... This is a summer of new things for Maggie Lloyd. I rented a car for ... doing research. Ever since I was a sophomore in high school, I walked

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  of the big reasons we decided to take course 6 classes in the first ... it resulted in some sort of 3D art! Here are some of the things we ... in the scene are reflective) and keeping track of where they intersect

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  the first time in recent memory, i don't feel burned out at the end of ... junior year. i haven't blogged in a while, so i thought i'd write up a post ... loved (not reflected by my spotty attendance). in many of my course 14

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  burning out past the finish line

  

  i was finished with school work since about two weeks ago i have lots of things i could be doing and i am not doing any of them because i ... packing or whatever instead i am sitting and lying in bed and watching all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spreading Santorum around MIT Or rather, just spreading awareness of Santorum.

  

  'm not too fond of my US senator, Rick Santorum. I won't go into any ... strong that I felt the need to express it in an avant-garde photomosaic on ... photograph to paste a cutout of good old Rick's head onto. I've decided not to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  in, with the introduction of the album Rubber Soul. I knew this album ... and place in the fabric of the 60s counterculture movement. I broke down ... It Be—but I didn't consider myself well-versed in the Beatles

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  is somewhat... lacking in substance (what is Spotify Wrapped if I can ... Gangnam Style is finally not one of my top five songs this year, so I'm at ... , I managed to pull slightly ahead of Gloria. It's probably because I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024