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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  more money and thus fewer people would be saved. Meanwhile, the ... , each of the GEL students evaluated one another based on leadership and ... . I meet with the staff and fellow GEL 2 student officers, and make sure

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

   Monologues themselves and some written pieces, but since last year our pieces are all ... MITMo last year and I love this post so definitely give that a read. This year I decided to write another monologue to give at the performance, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  prize money, a sweet plaque, and a fancy lunch with the sponsors. I ... I’m still working on my post about Mystery Hunt, and I realized it ... website! I teamed up with Dylan L. ’23 and Emma Q. ’23 to make em7.io. You

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  quite so. I'm a senior who's majoring in Course 4 Architecture and will ... Computers and Engineering Problem Solving - also known as programming in Java ... must not leave MIT without being able to robustly code something and 1

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  time, money, or means to come visit - and that's perfectly fine. There ... below). Now, he's returning the favor and coming to visit us this ... and October each year, we travel across the country to give

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  gets a big gold star from me. 15. Money doesn't grow on trees... and ... 's just a nice place to sit and think. So here's my list of Things I ... and cram. Really. 3. Shopping is therapy. 4. Naps: they're not just for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  top choices with notes of praise and hints of acceptance letters and scholarship money to come. The idea is to win their affections by getting them ... differs from many of the schools who employ them. At MIT, we read and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  LED strips, and a massive battery, and spent much of our free time that ... Hello everybody! My name is Katy and I’m a senior studying electrical ... a cabin in New Hampshire, and skiing all day every day. Yeah, I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  classes I took this term were Ecology (1.018/7.30), Neuroscience (9.01), and ... Following the old tradition... Go and change the world! Buena ... . Proceedings, Third IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  uniform rim of mass M and six thin uniform spokes mass m, is released from ... slipping? I've played with my tablet and written up the answers nice and ... game plan. 1) Energy. Since the wheel starts high and ends low it looks

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  three-day weekend per month during term, and sometimes a four-day weekend ... So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  : learn for love of knowledge. and it's been working. i've come to terms ... in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post ... with pessimism either. i took physics c mechanics in high school and did

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  teaching the last of four terms of Character Design and World-Making. On top ... watchers around campus this IAP, and while most fans I know have expressed ... -readers, "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and excellent party

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  innovate and design to advocate for accessible, barrier-free, and sustainable ... ) of my essays and how 20 year old me thinks about what 17 year old me ... I approached the prompts and my writing will be useful fodder for your

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  knew when I was seventeen. I wish I knew to take real analysis and ... illusion of success and more interested in building something real. I now ... i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Urban Studies and Planning at MIT! On the DUSP: Part 2

  

  in real social and political contexts. I realized I wanted to learn to ... Student Profiles from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning Urban Studies and Planning (Course 11) is a small, interdisciplinary major

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  to prepare, and i shrivel from embarrassment every time someone ... spinning to redeem myself and wipe that talk from my memory. [caption id="attachment_116443" align="aligncenter" width="456"] when afterthoughts burn and the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  " and/or the book on which it was based, Ben Mezrich's "Bringing Down the ... a gift, and started thinking about how the algorithm behind the ... studying his tickets and some statistical sleuthing, but he discovered a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  use for the photography class I'll get to take next term because I'm not ... place, and why am I no longer majoring in chemistry? I have quite a few ... for fun, and when I checked things out, the "just for fun" classes put

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  persona I’ve crafted. All the blogs I put out are real stories and parts of ... pet kittens in real life for the first time (THEY WERE SMOL AND CUTE AND ... i’m gonna keep this short so i can get to posting real content again

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024