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• 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
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  that there are all sorts of folks at MIT. For example, there is no majority ethnicity. MIT is about 35% white, 25% asian (of some persuasion ... % International, and our minority community provides all of the cultural resources

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus, version 2.0 More pictures!

  

  As promised, I come bearing more pictures, Some of these are courtesy of Hanna, Dorota, and Jake, all fellow frosh. Here are some from the ... lounge Some of the Haus frosh hanging out in one of our suites: In the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  next few weeks, I'll be highlighting one of my classes in each entry. This week, I'll start off with one of my most popular classes, 2.007, Design and Manufacturing I. The basic goal of the class is to design and

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waiting (is the hardest part)

  

  , there are two factors at work here. First, we are committed to admitting no more than 30% of our class during early action. We feel that the ... that by leaving only a very small number of spaces for regular action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  Happy new year everyone! I've been out with the flu most of this week so I'm feeling horribly behind in most areas of life. Being sick just blows. Most of the time I can ignore it and power ahead, but the flu

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  reports) to remind me of the pleasant times spent at Makerlodge this ... Welcome to the first of the many blogs I have meant to write but just ... -years could participate in, and I immediately did the online portion of the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  useful, but every entry has a flavor of MIT to it and, when looked at as a ... bloggers. Read all of the headers at the top of the page. Read Newsweek ... The MIT Admissions blogs started for several reasons. One of the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  know some people who haven't seen any of the films at all. According to ... image of Yoda momentarily appears at the point of impact. Now, granted ... DID YOU KNOW? The Tick was created as a mascot for the newsletter of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  involved no playing of instruments at all, but it was cool... I'm the new ... at too high of a temperature, you won't get any crusting at all ... of it like a box full of memories. ...and the Trumpet of Coffee On

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  , see how they function, and give them suggestions. At the end of ... piling the pieces at the front of the room, so that the kids could all sit on the floor. I put the projector at the back of the room, and got Eric

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  six hours per week (three practices of two hours each), plus cheering at ... classes out of the 8 must be "communication intensive", or CI-H, and at ... you choose to throw at yourself. It's just six units of free credit and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  efficient work before my bed time. Lately, I've been spending at least half of ... Ensemble's production of Macbeth. I had a blast! Clocked in at 9 a.m. and had dinner with some of the crew at 6 p.m. It wasn't until three days later

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  that they can shout dinosaur facts at me with the help of some CADding ... of summer Cambridge activities. Now, like everything else, these have ... weightlifting (more on this later) it is time for those of you who might want to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  monolayer of Au nuclei (styrofoam ball contraption, behold below) at the front ... symptoms include: Feeling quite hot, but in a 100°F kind of way Fatigue ... month at MIT- IAP! If being relaxed and useless stresses you out, it

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  at the end of year two here, I have a whole portfolio of hilarious ... really want an unedited look at what life is like as an MIT student... here is cross section of my semester in screen shots. 1) I hit exactly $0

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  unmistakable weavings of a live saxophone. When the game disbanded I followed the sound. At the bottom of the steps of 77 Mass Ave was a lone saxophonist ... night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  're really good at shooting (we've won the national championship in pistol 2 of ... thought I'd take a look back at MIT athletes who have participated in the Olympics. Now I know that many of you may be thinking that MIT is more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  't even be at MIT anymore. It's kind of curious how my last Leap Day was my ... . So, every 4 years (or, in the case of years that satisfy yr# mod 100 = 0, yr# mod 400 = 0 must also be true), we get one of these odd days

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  One of the most memorable conversations that I’ve had at MIT was also one of the shortest. It went something like this -- “ ... to those who challenge you at every step of the way but ultimately

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007