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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  only is FAP one week of pure awesome (I mean, come on, you get to hang ... got picked to be a FAP (Freshman Arts Program) counselor, which is an ... Boston to New York, which means we had to get on the earliest possible bus

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  them and to think on my feet. One of the biggest differences between ... equations or concepts per unit and then tested on our ability to use them in ... .310, we were allowed to fill one 8.5” X 11 sheet of paper, front and back

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  on the other side of the wall is developing an indoor autonomous quad ... you having to get up. You forget that this is an institute of world ... , right in the line of fire if President Obama were to spit or something

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  email, or available on the phone. I'm happy to report that this year ... which students to admit since everyone is so talented. Thank you for your ... , defer, deny) is. Because we have a clear idea of what we are looking for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  `things’ is often subject to diminishing returns, the world of ideas is not ... flown or driven hundreds, even thousands of miles to supply my needs), I relied on strangers to pick me up and give me rides, the vast majority of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  Hypothesis if it is actually false." Last year I wrote an entry on a one-question examination that could be used in lieu of an application to admit people to MIT ... 're going to adopt it for the incoming class of 2012. No no, not really. Well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  being from a small-town or rural community.   As part of our commitment to ... played a game of “Rural Students Bingo,” in which we try to fill a bingo ... , and the thought of doing the wrong thing or getting on the wrong train

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  -in-law, yay!), who has three pieces of advice which he applies to every ... is how to design a robot, or how to calculate the thermodynamic properties of a chemical reaction, or how to succinctly prove that If an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  you the following, which was the first page of the background reading ... problems figuring out which motor to use for their robot. They tell you that ... , so they didn't know which motor to use. The robot builders decided to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  -pitch run-down of the intro blog is “Cambridge has no fields or horses or ... Hello world! My name is Kayode Dada, and I am one of the seven new ... ’m afraid of the Wolf of Wall Street.”  … When freshmen first get to campus

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  good people of Boston Spinjam are meeting on Mondays on Killian Court ... live in Conner 2, or plan stuff for REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick ... the blogs is to allow our bloggers to communicate what being a student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  , but suggested that they might dare to have a sense of humor - or ... -vacation (which is where I've been hiding). So I've got CD's now; stop by 3-107 if ... (text here) and I instantly began to receive a ton of email, both good and

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  major. “Is getting through this courseroad all going to be worth it? Or am ... you can't predict how a robot is going to look like by the end of the ... everything." Failure is not the antithesis of progress, or even success. But

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now ... fresh out of the pandemic and it took a few months (or years) to feel like ... chill week, which is a week filled with events for new people to have an

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  , [annotation note="Which may have the qualifications to be a pandemic of its own ... . Enter WashLava. WashLava is the app we use to pay for loads of laundry. I ... , I get to haul a soggy pile of clothes from the washer to a dryer on

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  them all weekend in favor of rush burgers. I sat next to my parents on ... included the ban on freshmen, and the removal of two of our GRTs to make way ... is impossible without trust on both sides. It’s hard to come up with

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... , during which I applied pressure to the On button, and the Blog for MIT ... Dinnerware: Total Stealth fails due to lack of volunteers. This is the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  , decide which one you'd really like to live in based on meeting the people ... , most dorms do some sort of in-house rush to decide what floor, house, or ... One of the coolest things about MIT is Residence Exploration (REX

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  -not only are his lectures good, which is enough to win most people over, but ... In case you haven’t been able to tell by the lack of bloggage across ... sort of wandered around the floor for a while trying to work some of it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  a good idea to build a city on hundreds of low-lying interconnected ... strangest moments of our trip to Italy. As a tourist, Venice is probably ... had the choice of going the Uffizi to see the Birth of Venus or to a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006