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• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  figured I'd blog about how and why we did it. The Idea According to my inbox ...  Elizabeth Choe and current sophomore Loren Sherman to figure out how to do it. At ... A few weeks ago we posted this video to announce our decision date, 3

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  how you're expected to sleep for grief, so I'll try to comfort you with ... of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to ... riddles whose solutions range from the sacred to the obscene but are always

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Crusty White Dogs Appreciation Post 💕 🐕 💕 🐕💕

  

  icebreaker was to share what pet you'd want to have if you could have ANYTHING ... moment. And how they just stare at you. And now they have like fifteen ... 't have to have one. I will have a crusty white dog. So we're going around

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 18, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  . In an attempt to alleviate confusion, I sat down with my colleague Mc ... tried to make the distinction. One way to think of it would be this ... message is this: there is no wrong way to fill out this section. Don't worry

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  , and MIT Pro-Choice, and am a chapter coordinator for How to Get Around ... Pearl Jam, but at the moment I'm listening to How to Dismantle an Atomic ... Hello to all of you readers! I'm the latest student admissions

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  to how the human eye works, how images are stored on your computer, how ... decided that I didn't want to play the HOW MANY TIMES CAN YOU USE THE WORD ... Sudan, etc. While reading an article, I happened to sit up straight, so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  ' win rates.) As for how this applies to real life… well, whatever, I ... -based rather than real-time, meaning you can take as long as you want to make ... to start over from the beginning. The archetypical example, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  unsent drafts and attachments old and neglected enough to be hanging out in ... to myself 1.7 years ago during my first visit to MIT: Wednesday: I ... then went to the top floor of the tallest building in Cambridge (later

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  symbols, to represent how gender balanced the class is. I'll explain my take ... to customize the ring to reflect their time here. At the end of the freshmen year, about a dozen students are appointed to the Ring Committee (by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  's all a state of mind. Read on and find out how I spent the second day of my summer vacation. DID YOU KNOW? Portland, ME was once home to the world's tallest building. After breakfast, we took a drive down to Old

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  the expense of my social life/sanity? Also, how much do students tend to ... being the lowest... How happy are students? How stressed out do students feel? How well do students cope with stress? What is the general

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  To fully appreciate MIT’s location, venture to downtown Boston. The ... to a big city. It only takes 10 minutes to get downtown from East Campus. From there, it’s an ~11-minute walk to Chinatown, State House

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  , and how it is representative of everything in my life. Due to a ... in chromosome 5, leading to an extension of the circadian period from ~24 hours to a little over 25 hours. To express this mutation

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  "normal" (though really, there's a limit to how normal anyone at MIT is ... relative to the general MIT population. How did this happen? There are ... structure. Or, to be more descriptive, geography and physical structure have a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  how to switch sections from afternoons to evenings because it conflicted ... syrup. I don't really know how to describe it, but it's amazing. Hot ... has been A Week™. Freshmen aren't invited back to campus this semester

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  story after, but here’s the legend of how murals in EC came to be, as told ... camps - at every single camp I went to, I was housed in a dorm room that ... subconsciously expecting this from my dorm as well. I didn’t go to CPW, and even

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  By Omar Abudayyeh '12 While I’m not cool enough to enroll at MIT on an iTouch or to dedicate myself to MIT for four years weeks before CPW, I am cool enough to now say, “I am enrolled at MIT!” In fact, I just

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  , but I'll try to find my peace in this sprawling city, in you.  You ... from the fire escape. We listen to a drag queen read children’s books in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our ... Easter). So what does this mean? It means that we’re supposed to ... couple of weeks of Easter break. So how are MIT students faring with this

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  than I ever admitted. But I did, undeniably, fail to graduate on time ... dropping all classes where it was clear I would get a B or lower. How did I ... . Well, I started to, but every post inevitably ended with a positive

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022