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• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  --spaghetti against a wall. The whole thing was just fantastic--the best part is when ... the Korean Flying Tigers, and since half of my floor is in the club, I ... be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  This is my third year doing this; see the 2019 post and the 2020 post I made. UPDATE: Here's the 2022 post. Things I read for class I took ... didn't make the list.) My methods for counting was basically just wildly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  It is clear to me that I COULD NEVER WRITE ENOUGH ABOUT THE ... to my neck in applications (I just want to save my wrist watch!) For ... into holiday mode and I believe that you need to do the same. As I read

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  UberPool. Kamoya is Nigerian like me. He lived in Lagos for several ... . We knock on what we think is the door; a woman surfaces and tells us we ... way for a lot, but when we knock on the door, and it opens, the light

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  then set up for the next event. But, from what I hear, you guys had a ... blogs. It's caption contest time! The person who submits the best ... CPW is finally over, which basically means I'm back to sleeping again

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  ://mit-admissions.org/rsvp/session_link.asp. At the Sacramento meeting, say hi to Stu for me! Vivek asked, "is a ... Choice of Major website. Sara wrote, "For the next Omnibus: - Is it ok to ... ., as long as the duration is correct?" For HMMT, I might try something

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2026 are now ... .'] 14,781 students applied for early admission[/annotation] to the MIT ... on this post to focus the conversations on the open threads for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  to be employed in the future. (And is a fully hardworking, productive ... pick up in high school, but for the rest of us who stared out the windows ... 'm the most efficient at that time. (It also helps that no one is updating

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  consider carefully which is the best option for you. 5. I think geese are ... with organizations like Habitat for Humanity. I think the best way to ... , but I think this is enough to digest for now. Last week I went to the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  the peace of mind that a job is waiting for me on the other side of ... what ROTC is unless you’re in it or you’re familiar with the military. I ... what actually is ROTC? ROTC stands for Reserve Officers' Training Corps

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  of year again for my favorite seasonal meme: The holiday season is a time for gift-giving. A couple of weeks back, I visited the MIT Coop to ... talk to people. MIT Beantown Shirt – Yes, "Beantown" is a nickname for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  project due Monday, and this is the best I've come up with. Too many notes ... DID YOU KNOW? "The Canticle of Freedom," written for the dedication ... meeting for my UROP (the turkey one) just to get free apple pie 2. discussed

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  apart in every direction. I quit the plasma physics research: to get any ... not being right for me in the long term."][/annotation] Nothing else I ... designed machines and built things with my hands, but then I ached for the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  being chose the best possible conditions for the world to exist as we know ... think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning ... that scary mathematical jargon for the first time. The fact that I have

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  different projects, but because drawing is way faster for me, I like to sketch ... I’m using feels on the page. Especially for technical classes, I like to include diagrams to help with understanding. They’re not the best

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  which is best addressed than neglected"..."issues with the organization of ... “Help!” by the Beatles. Relevant verse reproduced at the bottom, for your ... …and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  ): For the feel-good types: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine: still ... elusive skill of patience – waiting for the bus, waiting on a friend at a ... : Grab some popcorn and escape the stress of this world for the stress of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  what people are afraid of. 3) For me, the best treatment was DISTANCE ... float your boat. Although I recognize that (3) is usually the best course ... this works for me is that the inner recesses of my mind are dangerous

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  readings was Sartre’s Existentialism is Humanism: “But in reality and for the ... . The search for objective meaning is absurd — a hopeless state we cannot ... ’ll grow to care for in the future. It is not easy, but “I have gotten much

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  . According to CMS/W: The curriculum in science writing is designed to enable ... about the worlds of science and engineering for broad audiences. This writing major is an option for students interested in science journalism

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015