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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of ... improvement immediately." One of the last gifts to Col Wallen was presented by ... similar to Col Wallen's at some point in my life, being presented a statue

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  according to plan. How did you manage the situation? Let’s say, for the sake ... scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my ... experiences—I decided to look for the essays I actually wrote when I applied to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  ’re painfully unaware of the world but slowly beginning to realize how little you ... render adults dreadfully boring to every child under the sun - a desire for ... , articulate what that means anymore. When I was 17, about to leave Arkansas for

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Snowy Birthday Party the #IAParty2011 is just beginning

  

  birthday celebration. Alumni and community from all over are making trips to Cambridge to see and remember all the great things that have come out of our ... lined up for the next few months. The committee has been working for

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  down to the bunkers of the basement of building 3 to work on my robot for ... ) In conclusion, thanks to all of the prefrosh who I met for: -making me realize how lucky I am to be a blogger (apparently it will be the most

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  hard to present MIT in 20 minutes, especially when you're used to having 40 minutes for an on-campus information session. I had to very quickly run through things that I normally have more time to explain. For most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  Fidelio. Tonight we had the Burton-Conner Trivia Competition. Prior to the competition, I sent an e-mail to my floor telling them to keep three things in ... these things! One of the questions was "What is the more common name for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  waiting patiently for something, and even harder, arguably, to distract ... @tinycarebot to remind him and his Twitter followers to do nice things for ... emails, phone calls, and blog comments, to say nothing of spillovers to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for ... schedule to take a physics course! But the metaphor holds for so many MIT ... which was just singing is now in shards on the table, speaks to how

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  ’t the full picture. MIT students do work hard, but also know how to relax ... note="app/system for paying for and starting laundry machines @ mit. it ... ."]Washlava[/annotation] app to start the washing machine, you get a text message from your

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  ! You'd have to ask Mitra how much econ background is assumed for 14 ... promised to get back to her on that. Class plans are mostly useful for ... requirements for your major(s), then check in the catalogue to see when the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  must be to run an Instagram page, or how quirky I am for learning about ... and began following a YouTube video on how to draw fruit with pastels ... remember how it's me asking for help. Not the other way around. I don't think

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  shoot an email to be less unknown!).  You probably have a passion for ... - Now I know to keep my MIT ID in my wallet at all times and I leave for ... version of physics or math you take.  All that matters is how much you want

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  . This isn't true over IAP, so lots of people learn to "fend for themselves ... fending for myself for a few months now, but I did take this opportunity to ... fudge of my childhood. I've been really impressed by how easy it is to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  a forward before the presentation was handed off to RingComm.   ... watch for a touch of classiness and old traditions, as well as to remind ... the same 24 hours in a day. It's how we choose to spend it that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  to connect their knowledge of the past with the immediate present and to imagine future directions and applications for our more ... to all members of the Humanities who seek to create media projects for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  actually taken the opportunity to test my hypothesis. For everybody out there ... describe how quiet this library is is to let you listen. This is what the ... Library takes on a whole new use for students. No longer is it a place to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  showed, to a degree that can never be sufficiently told, how much Jobs ... for Steve to call during the week upset about something, it was unusual for him to call me on Sunday and ask me to call his home. I wondered

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  memory. This spring break, I went to Chicago with my family for a weekend ... . Campus Preview Weekend for me was a chance to create a real first ... stirred up by our shuffling footsteps. There was learning how to use an

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  life at college. And my advice for you is precisely that. To echo Paul ... P/NR is for! P/NR is there to smooth out your transition to MIT ... IHOP run just because you have to study for 18.02; don't turn down an

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008