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• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  This post is sans elephants. Elephant Sans, however, would make for a ... for the day when he would not have to spent 2.5 hours [every day] of his ... are wondering, the admissions blogger of whom I speak is me. In the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  for the summer. I went[annotation note="side note is it just me or is ... everything else.) There is such a specific joy in wandering the city at 6 pm ... ’s go out for ice cream! Let’s go to the mall! On taking opportunities

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  room, shut the door, and stood behind it for a couple of seconds. A ... finally come to an end, and with it, my first year at MIT. For me, the end ... dawning on me with weight, the fact that my freshman year is over. And it

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  . Quito itself is at just under 10,000 ft (3 km) above sea level, and the ... lung capacities can hike to the Pichincha volcano summit, which is at just over 15,700 ft (~4.8 km). Feyi joined us for the cable car ride

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  :                                                                                           View from the second floor:     Splash is a day-long event in which ... -of-classroom mathematical topics if it wasn't for the inspired students who decided to be ... registration is over, consider signing up for another ESP program because

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  a little spout at the top for washing your hands when your business is ... experience, to say the least - while my lab is an international lab run by an ... to. The cherry on top of this weird, informally-dressed sundae is that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  . After a late night of work, the trapeze is finally flight-ready!   ... embroidery thread that has sat untouched in my drawer for seven years. (The ... enough to meet the standards for a contortion class. No matter how I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  up buying at the store. Ice cream is a catalyst for productivity ... was a joke. The following series of images is a visual journey through ... list at MIT for free food, there is also a mailing list for free

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  elsewhere. For me, this is one of the most important blog posts I've ever ... amazing, it is amazing not because of some occult magick embedded in the ... , surreal moment for me, and that quote was the first thing to pop into my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

   police for getting too close to the front while both my friends met Tim Cook ... sprinkle in some seasoning and light thesaurusy-words and creativity for the ... windowsill of the Internet for the world to see.   That's what I usually

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  not the most of any dessert. I count six for cookies, [annotation note="The icing on the cake, the cake is a lie, to take the cake, and cakewalk ... the long run. Everything is sweet. If you give a mouse a cookie

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  , because god is it cold outside. my how fast the seasons change [carousel ... number of virtual meetings for esp. as one of the new publicity directors ... the spire again is downfall, a huge expansion mod that adds so much

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  The following is a guest entry by Patrick L. '17 Just before 9 pm ... took Simmons 40 days and 5 hours. I am incredibly grateful for the help ... for. A group of six of us worked for most of the evening and didn’t call

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  .S. resident residing in the United States. There is no minimum age for ... ,000 And $10,000 Davidson Fellow Scholarships The Davidson Institute for Talent Development is offering high achieving young people across the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my ... being a blogger, which, lol). But for tonight, though, you can watch the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  . '15, who is working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for the second ... -JPL research.  The program that Herbert took part in is one of the Caltech ... . At JPL, the focus is on creating robots that go into space, like the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  the founding of MIT's course in that area. For example, Courses 1 ... in the Physics department - Course 8 - is called 8.971. Here's how the ... Site Here's what all the numbers stand for! Course 1 - Civil and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  . cooking for myself, on the other hand, is easy, fun, and just better for my ... 's probably not the case; also, EC is slated for renovation next year, so its ... experience," so i was willing to sacrifice some personal agency for the sake of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  say time is flying. Take for example MIT. When I was a first year, 100 ... blogging life. Which is wild to me, conceptually. On the one hand, because I ... people graduating this year for whome one year is 25%/33%/50% of their MIT

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  Bryan's fraternity, ZBT, for…an 80s party. And as soon as I walked in the ... classes that last an hour or two, and the idea is that you should teach ... Movie Trailers Game Theory for Fun The Mathematics of the Musical

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006