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• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  we were asked to do it four days before the event, so we had three days ... mentions or finds it. so, i’m writing a very high effort blog about fire ... day comes to close, a fire in my hands, a warmth in my soul

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Upcoming MIT Deadline January 1 is the Regular Action deadline.

  

  the Post Office postmark and mail your materials on or before January 1 ... on or before January 1. However, I strongly discourage procrastination ... Please remember that January 1 is the postmark deadline for students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  , Part 1 There are a lot of machine shops on campus, so in my massive ... the precursor to modern robotics. CNC mills or lathes are machines which ... group you're working with, or your own fun idea. And that's not even the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  someone what superpower they’d want, they’d probably say strength, or speed, or flying, or something like that. Someone might come up with a more unique power, like density control, or to control friction, or to forget

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  of those things. 1) MIT Football The team has been doing crazy well ... has never been as present or loud as they were for the last regular ... for 7.012 (Introductory Biology) but mostly for fun. They're both

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  about to begin. I'm taking the following classes: 7.013 - Introductory ... writing and think it'd be great to improve my creative writing ability, or ... can pop into her lab and annoy her =P Or give her chocolate, since she

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  -5 record and their best conference start at 7-1. Anderson found Bartolotta ... . Imagine the staff's surprise when he told us that his future wasn't a PhD or ... .0. He would be a sure thing to land a lucrative job in business or science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  1. So my sister bought me a bike. It's a used bike, but it's still ... from a place where gloves are like a weird, unnecessary type of sock. 7. Remember when you drove (or when I drove, because you might still, but I no

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Conservative pundit Ann Coulter once described on a VH1 ... baby out of a year or two ago. We also saw Checkpoint Charlie and the ... Engineering Museum, which is a strange destination for like 7 MIT students who

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  floor or each suite. Baker and Next both have 1 large kitchen shared by ... .60, 8.01 open-notes: everything in course 10, 7.06 Mitra said: "I can say ... what may or may not actually be a PES diagram onto the test. Writing the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  -2 and 8-2 don’t exactly line up, or that most floors of 11 are awkwardly hidden, or that 13 and 54 rooms go into the sixth digit, or that the dome ... don’t know which one you’re on or which you’re going to (as is often the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  feels like to apply to colleges overseas or out of state. The pressures you feel from your classmates or your family. The support you get from your friends or family. The hardest part of applying to college. The best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  inducted or inaugurated or initiated or something into the MIT chapter of Tau ... MIT's 27 fraternities or 5 sororities, but I still had to sign a non ... initiation that an engineering honor society might have. Or, you know, just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  one or this one? Craig: The symbol on the left is not a letter, sir ... think Being John Malkovich was already in my mind. Two days ago, my old ... MIT's Undergraduate Association, or UA. I digress; more about my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  look back and be like "ohhh wowww you did so much" or like "ohhh god cami ... lot. Or like, at all. It makes me feel really guilty. I've probably ... some sort of coding competition, like BattleCode, weblab, or Poker

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  out each day. But I quickly discovered that with 600+ of them (that ... am on the first day (yes, at night), MIT students will present a series ... Staff, Continental Breakfast, or International Breakfast. Many events are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  . Revision 1, as you write or immediately after. If it comes naturally, try to ... spirit Initiative Risk-taking, or resilience and the ability and ... , list experiences or ideas that highlight that quality. They don’t all

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  craft itself. No spell-checking, undo, or auto-align here!   ... debated between taking a IAP class on computational design in footwear or ... back to Zürich I went. I signed up for a two-day Schnupperlehre (aka

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  those who were turned away this or future Pi Days, will find comfort and ... written, because it demonstrates in fact what, in our decisions day posts ... are), then someday you'll look back on this Pi Day and realize it all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  news article for the school paper or a personal blog post or a school ... distinct characters. Most of these were unsuccessful in some way or another ... much fear of judgment or failure. I still have stories to tell and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014