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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  happened to be reading the article about the Battle of Gettysburg, which was ... of commercial failures of the 20th century which, in addition to ... Mark on Cemetery Ridge, which is the farthrest the Confederacy ever

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  and all of their connections to each other. This is where you decide ... ="aligncenter" width="501"] I placed the Nano on the back of the board to optimize space ... electronics to the point of designing them, and that had been something I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  shock for this reason. I'm the kind of person who is used to saying yes to ... starting to feel the weight of college applications on their shoulders.] In ... floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  an issue I've written about before in other venues on the subject of ... traumatic brain injury, the NFL continues to sell photos of "big hits" and ... , let alone a blog post. But one of them is best summed up by this SMBC

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  decisions (of which I will write soon) ensued, but one entry, written on a ... available for all to express themselves on the wooden walls) (the Wall of Bad ... Last April, as part of a high school assignment, I was required to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  , which I of course knew nothing about. So I turned to my fellow bloggers ... that everyone agrees on is that the actual creation of the review sheet ... . Basically, they try to get rid of all of the overstock and damaged books, so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  of my classes is 1.00 (or in non-MIT speak, Intro to Computers and ... later in the term. There are lots of small details which never seem to be ... course is to do a case study of the evaluation process of a major

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  is the runway, and you start to think to yourself, "In the event of a ... is green for the line of cars parallel to you, go! If the light is ... the other.) Finally, it is safe to roam campus at all hours of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  from London to Bath around 8am. The most adventurous part of it is ... ’t make an effort to travel. But every time I managed to drag myself out of ... Bath Abbey? Or was it the company of my fabulous traveling buddies? I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  . One of my suitemates is on the Varsity Field Hockey team and attends to ... (like crew or sport taekwondo) are completely open to walk-ons and beginners. My impression is, there are plenty of chances to play if you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  waiting for you to look into them and there is no notion of control or you ... time I chose to be with friends, of which many choose to live in the ... suddenly the void is yours to cut through like a block of stone waiting to be

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  If you're applying early (to MIT or elsewhere), you're probably ... sleeping late on weekends, and tears, smiles, and hugs still feel the same to ... course of my life make me who I am. College will just lead me to another

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  , precisely, one goes about getting into MIT. My first response is generally to ... to put the anxiety of prospective students to rest; knowing you're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  ’d argue the sample size, n=2, is too small to draw conclusions from), so ... before going out to dinner. Running is a great sport, but no one ever chose ... ....) there is nothing like taking your hair out of its ponytail and washing off

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  question, which was forwarded on to me by the awesome Nick '09: Alex isn ... from the MIT homepage yesterday, the final day of voting. According to ... are electrically identical. When nothing is connected to their terminals

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Check Is In The Mail As you know from Matt/Ben's blogs, the decisions are in the mail, or as they…

  

  place to discuss whatever is on your mind. ... decisions to bed. The weather here was so bad that nothing moved on Friday. As ... those of you not familiar with the 24-hour clock, or zero-hour, that's 9

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  that mesmerized me: Tristan+Isolde, which is similar to Romeo & ... then back to the opera to watch The Barber of Seville. This is much more ... boorish man took the heroine to see a Wagner opera. Being a frilly type of

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  many kinds of awesome, your grade is going to be 1/4 of it for 4 years ... . Get to know them! Eat a lot. CPW is full of free food. Enough said ... that means or is even supposed to mean; don't ask. Come to MITERS

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  he was too little to go on most of the rides. And my mom is afraid of ... on a lot of wooden coasters. I've been on the Beast, in Ohio, which is ... view of whatever river that is that runs parallel to it. The first drop

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  'm working on a great UROP, I have plenty of fun projects to spend my spare ... . Trip '09 and Jackie '09 (of Alpha Chi Omega) are happy to be "famous" on ... , because my dorm room was on the first floor, I had a great view of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008