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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  . this applies in sitautions like, not knowing the password to something ... get on a call with us, so we did. we talked about how no one's going to ... . i wanted to say that one year isn't that long in the span of things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  's where they get you. (Tricked me again, life!) According to my mom, you ... in all your pictures, and to know what a Roth IRA is and how to ... There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  a non-stop grind to get everything finished in time for competition ... school year, we competed in RoboBoat 2022, and we’re excited to take on ... those looking to get into startups and the entrepreneurial side of product

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  , I think, and I start to get defensive. What's in it for her? Why is ... Donalds). Also, I'm pretty sure they don't allow you to set off smoke signals in ... walked. Twenty minutes to the left of the station in the eighty

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  thought hey, if I can get lost in the middle of campus after 3 years of ... means you crossed one or more streets from main campus to get there. W is ... generally get to where you want to be without too much trouble. So study hard

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  amongst the stars a comic

  

  in NYC.  In an attempt to get back part of my soul after what ... and am currently languishing in isolation. While I suddenly have so much free time, I don't feel like doing anything other than admire the art in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  to find the Beehive Cluster using a map (that I read in red lamplight ... Dear current and future MIT students, There is a class you need to ... : pass, get a D, or fail). You learn the basics of amateur astronomical

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  otherwise might have. In contrast, I had been able to get my physics p ... . You’ll work hard, really hard, but you can get used to it; you’ll strike ... . I was reluctant to get up from bed—I always am, really—but I managed

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  good idea to live in a quad because I'd get to meet three other people ... , 2003: Bryan boards flight 382 from Houston to Boston. So I get to my ... hope that I'm not in the room when they are put to use and I must commend

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  . So for those of you in high school, wide-eyed and unsure of how to get ... I get a ton* of emails from both applicants, newly accepted frosh ... can I fit in?" It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  competitions in order to get into MIT!) I remember standing on the field with the ... before finally converging on the correct method to saw in a straight line ... an entire post to itself. In a nutshell: our team was made up of kids

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  want to get you in, have some explosions, show Hugh Jackman half ... mutant army to Alcatraz. 5. I am in love with Ian McKellen, and my favorite ... credits if you happen to see it. Which isn't a bad idea; you get what you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  reading their parts in French when it was their turn to read from the book ... number, and the time they have to be up in the morning. Usually there is ... always claim that Juicy Juice is what gets me through finals in the end

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  who I could get in touch with to make this happen. He had no information ... pulsar research. In my case, there were four major fears to get over - and ... medicine was supposed to do, but I remember that I put it in one of those

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  new experiences may come later, but for now, let's not get lost in ... were about to find out how Jeju does New Years'. (I apologize in advance ... First time in a foreign country - the pace at which new things are

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  thought to myself: easy! If I was able to get 5s on my APs and As in my ... orientation, each MIT freshman has the option to take part in a freshman pre ... living before you get to campus. Personally, I had taken a special liking

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  whopping 168 acres – which is 1.5x bigger than Vatican City! To get from one ... had to come up with some ways of getting around campus a bit faster ... be your partner in a group project. You probably like to hike or do

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  fortunate to get a D. In fact, I hadn’t been that happy about a grade since my ... 't fit in the other me, the one who had trouble getting both in and out of ... still wouldn't get me out of bed in the morning or stop me from engaging

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... longer term than, say, to the first-time visitor. Bearing that in mind ... obligations always tended to cross paths. And yes, now MIT is in a different

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  can't join in, because I really need to be reading applications. As I ... are on campus to see a lecture upstairs by Nobel Prize winner Ted Hänsch ... Condry, an MIT Professor in Japanese Cultural Studies, is giving a talk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007