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• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November Rule. in a pretty egregious way, at that⁠—it was a [annotation note="exactly 2 years ago to this day. i am the master of eerie timing"]month into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  information about the rewarding experience of being a cadet here at MIT.  So ... .   Here at MIT we host ROTC programs for three branches of the military ... Training, which is 2 weeks of boot-camp style training. You get yelled at a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  aware of my own mortality, at the very real prospect of being gone in an ... stresses of MIT. There are no more PSETs I must frantically worry about ... winter-me. I’m on the train heading into the depths of New York City, about

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  first met while judging Battle of the Bands at CPW 2010. Today, at 3:54 PM ET, the kickstarter for Ministry of Supply, the business apparel ... receive far beyond our initial goal of $30k - raising at this writing over

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  'm still one of the "young guys" at the office. But yet the undergraduates ... hamburgers. Don't be afraid of coaching. You may be very good at what you do ... the British, you may have heard fireworks and smelled the smoke of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  , and majors. I think everyone at MIT has a group of friends like this, so ... In the first installment of "Making the Switch," Melissa '11 asked ... for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same

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

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  deal with Simon & Schuster! So in September 2018, at the very beginning of my sophomore year at MIT, I signed with my wonderful agent, Penny ... for hours, staring at the ceiling, contemplating whether or not life has

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  : "Don't look at any pictures of X or the actual, real-life X. Then, draw X ... I am not a fan of icebreakers. It already takes a not-insignificant amount of energy for me to psych myself up enough to interact with a large

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  't have gained without taking the class. At the core of probability is ... really like topics that are based in math, or at least involve a good amount of logic and reasoning. It's satisfying to see things line up with a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  . We walked all the way to Central Square, surprised at the number of ... some of my friends who were international students wouldn’t go home because it’s too far, or because there’s only a break of two weeks before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  fresh quinoa. There were at least five tables full of food and drinks. The ... have their own class. Suzy Nelson is just at the start of her journey ... ' through the Stata Center, when out the corner of my eye, I saw this pretty

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  in the mainstream, so for a department at one of the world’s most ... to people should be gendered at all, instead advocating the use of a ... opinion of it. I’ve been thinking about it throughout the day, and felt it

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  stomach hurt, I was out of breath, and my butt was NOT happy at bumping over ... I'm currently in Missoula, Montana: hometown of ze boyfriend. When I ... control of the bike and threw myself off before it fell into a rock pit) and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you relate them? Some of my favorite guesses? "MIT is obviously ... installed solar panels." "Ninjas at MIT used solar panels to attack the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  blink of the eye really in the scheme of things, back across the years that made all the difference in the world to me, or none at all, depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  ) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products. From the website: In ... teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build working alpha

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  's definitely not what I expected to produce, but at least I have a basic idea of ... First off: I apologize for the shakiness of this video. For some ... timelapse component of the video kind of failed, too. It turns out that when

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  at old requirements for admission.  Last year I posted our essay ... next year, they won't; every year, we sort of reassess the questions ... on. You can think of essay questions as instruments which elicit a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  around in the most godawful turquoise bathrobe ever sold at Costco. (I ... health with the power of time, the love of my parents, and the mesquite goodness of Barbeque Lay's (okay, so maybe to mediocre health). And I can

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  man fresh out of college would drive 90 miles each way to his new job as ... time staying awake while on the road, so he would stop at the Woodrow ... secretly longed for the day when he would not have to spend 3.5 hours of his

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010