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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  I hear Early Action decisions went out. Congrats to those of you who got in. If you got deferred, don't take it too hard, plenty of people whom I know here got deferred EA and then got in. Eventually, those of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  offer, instead of focusing on what it requires you to give. When I was ... earlier return in case of limited flight availability or other extenuating circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  of what each community has to offer in just three days, but you can ... Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... , or CPW as it’s often written, was a scene that had unfolded in many of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  the FRESHEST of fresh, like the Fresh Prince of Bel-air eating crisp ... game character or piece of sushi. As a winged version of myself, I had the incredible luck of flutterskating with a Viking, a pot of gold

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  without a car. Isn't there a delivery-to-door option offered by some of the ... I have to admit that I don't have fifty pieces of advice for anybody, but I do have a couple of things to say about starting college

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  CPW was a lot of fun, and it was great meeting so many of you in ... guys got to see some of the nice weather we have hidden around here ... grumbling for part of them because of having to wake up at 7am. ;-) April 21

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  ) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my dorm and my family helped me carry all my crates of junk up to my room. Speaking of my room, it got changed. Several times. I was originally supposed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  is the universe’s way of telling me that I should stop trying and just ... This was my summer of new. Capital S, capital N. Definition: Going out of my way to do, see and experience things that I’ve never done

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  learned to use the entirety of their feet to varying degrees of ... that mit is slower than the rest of the world, but in the sense that you can optimize walking significantly when armed with basic knowledge of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  . Essentially, MIT students get the month of January off to do whatever we please ... that went. Note: A lot of this information is taken directly from ... lot of torque due to its size. The Nerf Gun In order for this to work

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  Thursday a feeling: walked home in 24-degree weather after ... fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who ... overlooks a city but is not quite part of the city a thought: my capacity to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  you use, but at the end of the day you're arguing over degrees of ... wrote our responses so that you can get several points-of-view on the same ... the culture. From the hackers scaling buildings under cover of night to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  something along the lines of this: "When you're young, people are sorted out. Everybody has different levels of talent. Later on, though, the only thing ... inspired and jubilant, saying something along the lines of this: "I'm going

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  overlapping section- we should be best friends.  :) As of now, my existence can ... copious amounts of time to my drawing/sculpting/architecture classes and felt myself distancing from the sciences, but expanding in my range of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  Spectrum duty desk in the lobby of McCulloch Hall at Northwestern University ... ) "let's eat tons of food and talk about our problems!" dinner. While Peach ... speeches for Persuasion and Debate or learning a full year of Latin in three

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  but think of the time in high school that my friend Allison was giving ... middle of it, in the process missing the first hour of our ultra ... ever watched it. Anyway, no. What I really couldn't help thinking of was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in ... cryptographer, 1997 Given the hype surrounding the potential applications of ... (not Nate…or his friend…) who was concerned that MIT did not offer any

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  Office of Digital Learning designed to facilitate awareness, deep understanding, and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere ... summary of the event. ____________________________________ At 12 years old

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  at the University of Washington. We (well, some of us) played Settlers ... impending school year; the end of August is coming up soon (how is this possible? Did July even happen?) and that will mark the end of my 19th summer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  (I've come out of blogger hibernation to post something too awesome ... and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a ... Yang '09, each of whom had taken a class from him and recommended it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007