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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  was a limitation on the size of the cups we could use to drink apple juice. I’ve been waiting most of my teenage years for the freedom to drink ... , I am sort of joking. The freedom to drink my favorite fruity beverage

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  taking the monster of a test known as the Medical College Admissions Test ... multiple choice questions in the realms of biology, chemistry, organic ... colleges - but MIT's is very unique!), is one of the many reasons why I love

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  shoes exhibiting the minimum amount of traction possible, and so it happened that these were the shoes I bought. As I enjoyed the feeling of near-zero friction against the floor tiles, it became pretty clear that the bottom of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  figure out the component of mg in the direction of the inclined plane ... less than 8 vectors to break down, the use of double-angle formulas, and ... joking.) Thankfully, the point of all that was to introduce the concept of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  I was with the better half of my umbrella that tried to fly away on a quest to Random Hall, where the was word of Truffle-making. When I finally ... to find stuff to do. Solace came in the form of a very pretty asian

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes 'What the hell is water ... selective process, is what an applicant makes of the opportunities that are ... helpful to have an understanding of the “water” in which they are swimming

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  "Welcome to New York" as the musical version of a peppermint latte. It was ... to name the feeling of cool tenderness on my tongue, my entire mouth ... . I entered the Broadway lottery and won a ticket to one of the less

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  maps the Internet could ever want, my first year of post-MIT life flew by ... friends, new line of work. In the first few months of adjusting to fast ... ’ve also stopped updating the Tumblr I’d kept since my senior year of high

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  screens of cooking asian dishes with korean subtitles. the waft of delicious ... 're familiar with another visit, and you've decided to get the worst out of the ... good idea. the broth is slightly clear and has a coat of oil on top. i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  't relevant to the post as a whole and because I didn't know a lot of the details yet. Now, I'm two weeks into the semester and in the thick of being ...  linguistics UROP, which I think is super hecking cool. Right at the end of last

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  sharing and appreciating passions, regardless of major and background. The ... , that it seems as if we are all part of the progress. When there is an ... , absorbing impromptu lectures on algebra, number theory, and the analogy of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  In the comments section of my last post, Confused Frosh asked: "Can ... each of these classes by typing the subject number into the Course ... 5.12 Organic Chemistry I (one of the best classes I have taken at MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Today, we continue the series Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ... ’s getting ready for summer classes at the Massachusetts Institute of ... hard, but at the same time, I'm real proud of him."

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Wrap-Up 2008

  

  was an extraordinary year across the admissions landscape, with some of ... schools for the fall. To those of you who stuck with us on the waitlist ... This afternoon, we notified the 64 students remaining on the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  Yesterday's Boston Herald had a story about the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team (SEVT) getting into a little trouble:   A group of MIT students were taking out the Tesseract - a solar powered car that took third

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  of the first floor of Random Hall. One of three all-male floors in ... floor is dating Loop, the southern half of the second floor, flowers and ... major at the end of this year, when freshmen at MIT declare their majors

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  in the downtown Borders (walking away with Ringworld, The Left Hand of ... Mass Ave, practically in view of home...and then I got distracted by the ... end of campus, which helps connect MIT to the greater Boston area. Did

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  it was june, which in the relative scale of time we’re all in right ... . staring into the charles from the bridge brings to memory, the six of us, in ... night of sliding down tunnels in office chairs and lying in the grass

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  I love going to the MIT Media Lab. Being part of the MAS Freshman ... class (MAS.110) or for just getting "lost" in the many halls of the labs ... final presentation of the class Science Fiction to Science Fabrication

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  [HEY! NOTE: If you are looking for the real, scientific reason of how ... be solved," which immediately peaked my interest. This was the kind of ... hemisphere that spends 90% of its life in the air. An Albatross can go up to 6

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024