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• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  backpack!" "Nope, I'm sorry, you can't get in." Wonderful. Security 2 ... what very well could have been the longest line ever. I got in it. It ... the case in my current line). I wandered up and walked right up to the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  more difficult. In the summer between sophomore and junior year at MIT I did my first tandem skydive while I was back home in Oregon.  I didn ... while. Fast forward to, oh, about 2 months ago.  As I sat in my apartment

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  graduate school. In case that didn’t work out, I also applied to what I ... Factory but accepted to MIT in my junior year of high school (after which I ... leave of absence at the end of it. In January of 2013, I had no income, no

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  building 46. i ask her to measure my pupillary distance so i can buy glasses ... fridges in our lab to make room for more samples. i can't help but feel ... minutes before my alarm goes off. i haven't woken up naturally in a while

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  ="64141" /] I was the first person in my suite to arrive on campus (I arrived at 8 ... on the walls, which I liked quite a bit. Since we can't use the vast ... reason, took pictures of the bathroom, so since I am spamming photos in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  Donalds). Also, I'm pretty sure they don't allow you to set off smoke signals in ... to ask directions, to the first person I saw in the midst of this ... time today I'd walked at least fifteen minutes in the complete wrong

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  -cooked meat Unfortunately I can’t eat this anymore because I am allergic to most ... beans in with the onions. Open and drain a can of red kidney beans. Add ... . Effort: 3 Ingredients: Farina (actually sold in American stores, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  , when I was enrolled in this year’s Silly Robot Extravaganza 4000, I ... wasn’t one of my intentions. However, I can’t say now that I regret it at ... to visit my aunt; my aunt and uncle live in Seattle and I’d never been

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  try to identify the MATCH in the people I meet here at MIT - it ... that you can't get into college on your own? One value I hold higher ... what I asked in the entry I wrote before - "What is it that makes you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  is nice, but I guess you can't really compete against school pride ... The Annual Burton-Conner Apple Bake: Sunday, October 23 in the ... Sunday the 23rd at 3:00pm in the Porter Room. Winners will be announced

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  cat figurine from my grandmother, I think bought in Moscow. A frog I ... wound up in Random Hall. I didn’t even recognize her when we re-met during ... Random to MacGregor and back. Cory and I shared a single in the highrise

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  everything I read in 2022. The Secret History, Donna Tartt (5/5) The Secret History is, of course, a famous book, particularly in certain circles. I ... in.   The City We Became, N. K. Jemisin (3/5) I’ll start off by

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  paint imaginable is represented in the cluster of cans in the corner, and ... : Come on, anyone? Aw, what the heck. I stayed in Simmons this summer, and ... reasonable size. Back out in the courtyard, I informed the rush chairs that I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  from studying that I can't help but share with all of you - the first ... on gloves, and called up a friend who I haven't seen in months, because ... , we split up, I towards Harvard to buy a Christmas present for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  , one that can't be reduced to just "let's do things in-person again!" I ... about abstract concepts like "fit" and "where I really want to go". In ... , I know lots of people who've found some community in their religion

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

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  to go into tech - I'm interested in digital marketing and transmedia ... company at least once to see if I might be interested in them, or them in ... filled fascinating niches in the tech marketplace. I encountered some

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  flight that would happen in just 36 hours. Stress pack because I can’t fall ... you're not interested. but for this post in particular, i think it ... MIT on Pi Day, I started writing up this post in an attempt to express

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join the Design/Build/Fly Team?

  The MIT Design/Build/Fly team is composed mostly of undergraduate students, but is also open to graduate students, who compete in the annual ... specifications as specified in the competition rules. Students on the MIT DBF team
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  I can see the end of my first reading season from here, and it has ... dream will have been dashed. In one of the moments that I was thinking ... culturally connected to the ‘tute. From the long days in committee that I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  the highly specific title in this post's tagline, they can be applied to ... in your life when something happened but you can’t quite recall all of ... prompt, I will say that it is naïve to think that you can get away with not

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016