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• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  thousands on a wait list to get tickets. ~40,000 The number of people ... for mechanical engineering students (aka gotta take one of them to graduate). The premise of this class is to ideate, design, build, and present

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  and Shaena showed us how to get our bodies out over the side of the bike ... , and had Nate bail me out), I took off for Yaqui Pass to get some ... cyclist friend Matt R. ’13 (used to be ’14; pictured below), who recently

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  moderately important later). But let's get to the heart of the matter. Let ... pretend to twirl a drum stick - to prove it. So let me fix that: Because Elizabeth '13 has a good point: we all need some way to show you we're not

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of crufty alums being around in the last serveral days, in part to various other things going on which I will not bother to ennumerate here. The

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  , so who knows why.) There was a lot of “ooh, that place is hard to get ... know, you have to stay encouraged. Don't get cynical, don't ever think ... addition to not giving up, though, I also constantly made plans on how to get

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  lot of trouble sitting still at work. I like to get up and get tea and ... problem sets and projects before they get to the students. That second chunk is what we’re trying to get out of the way before the start of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  want to get better. That's something that I failed to grasp for so long ... . Let me get this out of the way, first: I think this cover isn't great. I'm listening it right now and I don't like it. Do yourself a favor and listen to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  a regular semester, I was always in such a rush to get to wherever I ... normal year, would get to and from their classes. It's where you'd pass by ... to get lunch sometime. It's where you'd try to deduce if passerby were

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  as close as you'll get to a home-cooked meal. On a weekly basis, food ... really don't get to eat freshly fried, extra crunchy, warm on the ... Disclaimer: This post was supposed to be written a whole 6 months ago

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  applying to things and places I didn't think I was actually qualified to get ... me that I wasn't going to get it, but I tried anyway in large part ... , we always say to be true: Turning away so many kind, generous, super

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  applicants who are admitted. It's hard to get into MIT. Being deferred means you're going to get another fair shot. Bloggers who were deferred and ... to wait a little longer as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  straight face, I asked Jenn to go inside and get the sheet off the bed so ... , we'll all get on a plane and fly to New Mexico, where we'll reduce some ... need to get back to work.

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  nothing. Paying to relax and get pampered may be on the calendar for the ... . According to a recent New York Times blog titled "The Rise of the Toilet ... think of. As our Internet culture continues to mature, words such as

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  . You have the opportunity to go out and get a college education at a ... . So I'd like to begin by giving a shoutout to my grandfather, who, in addition to being a WWII vet, was also ordained as a nondenominational

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  things outside the bubble, I'm increasingly feeling like it's also easy to get too-focused inside bubble. People who come to MIT are usually ... be engulfed in the so-called MIT bubble. Which basically means, getting

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been putting pencil to paper(s) and finger to keyboard(s), writing my first ... papercuts later, I hauled my arrangement off to Kresge, where a ragtag band of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  $25 to get a blank Moleskine cahier sketchbook, which you're supposed to ... of faces and experiences makes it all worthwhile. * Came home to find my bed upgraded from twin size to full size (!!); makes me scared about

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  , we get to watch great films by legendary directors like Chaplin, Keaton ... a couple classes to choose from based on the results of your placement ... other hand, you're given an enormous amount of variety to select your

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  extra socks (it's just starting to get extra freezing here in New England ... I am starting to run out of excuses for when I disappear for long ... seem to make it back with some sort of lame and totally transparent

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  . Question: "What about Are Four years enough to get advantage of all the ... key is to try to maximize what you do get out of MIT. For example, I ... intramural sport. Didn't get to be Undergraduate Association President

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006