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• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  is a nice place to watch the marathon because there’s so much space and ... brothers) was willing to take a dunk. Oh, yeah, but the marathon. See, it ... managed to get a shot of the frenzy over the final few paces. Now, I’m not

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  Today was the last day of 2.670. I had wanted to make a really cool modification to my engine by making it a generator, but I didn't have enough time ... engines: To see a video of my engine running, click here! I didn't get it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting the new bloggers! With a new school year approaching, it's time to pick the next set of bloggers.

  

  perhaps a couple juniors and seniors (we do not plan to hire a sophomore, but will not rule it out). To be considered for a blogger position, you ... : Blog/writing stuff Provide a link to your "portfolio." This will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  This was a great day. Take my word for it. What, do you want me to prove it to you? Aww, here goes. Today I ate a grape lollipop that Save ... to dissolve the aromatic flavor compounds in my saliva, assumed to be a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  website.   Q2) What is a Maker Portfolio? A2) We want to see how you ... information? I have SO MUCH I want to share with you! A4) I am excited that you ... pitch" about your Maker projects. You have a short amount of time to

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  ; The goal of perfectionism is more similar to a survivalist mindset. If ... of shit I was going to eat, sometimes served on a high-speed conveyor ... 've contemplated several times about running off to a cabin to become a writer (which

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  responded, "Hard to say because I have so many flaws." That's a self ... want to improve into a few goals. Like, I haven't been eating well and ... emotionally mature, meaning I've been able to avoid a lot of drama because it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  responsibility to an app called Todoist. A pen and paper could achieve the same functionality as this fancy to-do list, but does a pen and paper have a dark theme ... 's been a "pset, sleep, blog –– pick two" kind of time, so instead of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  't have a cohesive campus until 1916, much to the lamentation of some ... be Gastronomical Engineering, a Course dedicated to making and ... positions; but we refuse them all, for we wish to show the Faculty that a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit ... owned by incomprehensible orgo mechanisms and whether EMS produces a G to A mutation or a C to A mutation, I'll let someone else tell the story

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  . It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I ... , required to take 8 PE points. A PE class, which meets for about a month, is ... 're also required to pass a swim test, which I have heretofore been too lazy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  to me. However, by the end of the trip it almost became a sort of ... I just kept moving, and each time a new crowd started to gather I would walk to a new place. I repeated this sequence over and over, even

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  setup, another has a beam that is wired up to record its response to an ... , each team of two people was given a setup and allowed to come up with ... this. We decided to measure the impulse of a head when it was snapped up

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  response which we then evaluate, akin to the soft rubber hammer which a ... paper applications, we used to just include a blank piece of paper and ask ... questions which are going to a) elicit the most informative, enlightening

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

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  myself, traveled over to Hanscom Air Force Base (about a 30 minute drive ... sophomores useful skills and to let the upperclassmen get practice leading a ... to read a 23-page document teaching us more skills), it was time to

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  I live in Massachusetts. I am a freshman. I am in college. I go to ... . Like, actually, the rectangular building used to be a warehouse for some ... a mailing list to know where to get the free food), and of course

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  as a student at MIT. Got back to GHAMAS to set up for the Hartford ... rockin' (usually we have to bring that stuff with us). They had a free ... I hope we will), we'll move to the theater, which holds a few hundred

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  issues. It's not always a fun job, although I would like to think I ... reading, Hope to see you there, Good luck with finals and have a happy ... -off linked to a form that just contained a feelsbox. It’s almost the weekend

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  telling people that I'm a blogger. (Which I then question due to my recent ... rewarding summers of my life, and a lot of it was thanks to MIT. I spent the ... to a group of awesome middle schoolers and officially discovered the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  think about it-—how does one attach a microphone to a stripper ... joking around with the case. It takes more than two months to put a show ... individuals—-to give life to words on a page. This is my experience from

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008