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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  aerobic capacity, which allows them to run at blazing speeds for long ... to write in third person, though second person is fun too.   ... fibers are not powerful enough to run at high speeds for long periods of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  to stop for me as I ran across the street to catch it. Lost a ... something awesome to the first person who can figure out the origin of our name) to coordinate details for the Hunt,which starts this Friday. Our #1

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  undergraduate, and what am I actually looking for? Same question, but relate it to ... information as possible. You may also want to create a ranking system for each ... should be getting to me shortly)." I can't say for sure since I'm not a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  ball. Find the gum ball using only your mouth and the first person to ... up of 27 fraternities and 5 sororities (with one more coming to campus ... together is during “Greek Week,’ which was held this year from April 27 to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for Admitted Students

  Congratulations and welcome to the Class of 2014! We feel like we already know you, but feel free to use this forum to introduce yourselves to your future classmates. FYI, the reply form and CPW portlet in My

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  to San Francisco. I'll be spending two weeks on the left coast for a ... blogs for the rest of the month, b) alert Californians to some interesting ... weekend I'll return to the Bay for the annual Maker Faire Bay Area to give a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  knowledge that MIT is the place for you, be sure to give other schools a fair ... ! If you're not, well, to quote Phyo '10, "GET PUMPED!" I didn't get to go last year, so I'll be running around pretending I'm trying to decide

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  're about to head off to college, and you're thinking to yourself, do I need a ... disclaimer now that I'm a spoiled first grandchild and thus, I did go off to ... equipment to keep track of LAPTOP The Pros: - Mobile - Lightweight - Can do

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  never thought I would be coming to MIT to chop stuff. But during REX, for ... Lodge, a training program for first-years on how to use various tools. I answered this safety quiz online, signed up for a training slot (which was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  my two suitcases. I’m going to be in Europe for the same amount of time ... bags to my place tomorrow. My Molchat Doma shirt had been worn for over ... places back home. I hadn’t expected to taste that for months. [caption id

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  singer as a fire for the cold listener. compares themselves to a river and ... brace myself for. everything comes close to evoking existential dread, but ... can hope for is to work so that as many of my future branches as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  year of calibration for me in many ways, beyond just adjusting to a ... on average), thanks to in person 9am classes/meetings. I eat a decent ... weird.  Drawing has been a lifelong passion for me. It’s a release, my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  I'm often asked about MIT students going off to law school. For some ... knew I had to blog it (if for no other reason but to poitn people here ... . Bush nominated her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  math UROP for the first 2.5 years of MIT, I went to office hours less ... .  In the summer, I went back to Chicago, where I had been for the summer ... main goal for this summer was to become slightly more fluent in my mentor

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  Snively?" So much for pretending to be a prefrosh. It turns out that the ... we grabbed our hash browns and coffee we headed outside to wait for ... packed and there was no room for us. We decided to find somewhere else to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  important items that engineers should add to their personal wish list. Now it ... , and this was the perfect project for me to pass time between Track ... -tune their speech, but I was expecting to just use it as practice for talking

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  So, let me set the scene for the [annotation note="Some would call it ... , in front of me is the Jeremy, behind me is Ariel, DJ to my left, and ... tangibly real, to digitized clusters of pixels on a Zoom call. What is "real

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  what there is to know about MIT. But I don’t think I even come close ... workshop in Building N51 and saw for myself everything that they do. Check ... type of person, I was impressed by everything these groups had built in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  One of my goals for my sophomore year was to do all the things I was ... Sloan Business Club! I didn't go to any recruitment events for SBC ... have the amazing opportunity to be a panelist for MIT Admissions! On

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  people. Thankfully for me, I was able to see him in the first of three ... lines, it's refreshing for others to embrace and impart a message that is ... laureate, a spiritual leader, and one of the foremost advocates for peace and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012