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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule ... out another aspect of MIT or talking to the potential students. Rule #3 ... part of CPW for me was talking to other prefrosh getting to know the

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  formally welcome you admitted and delightful goobers to the Institute. Four years ago my Pi Day was filled with lots of screaming of excited ... all the fun things that you sort of forget about when you're taking

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  semester. Unfortunately this semester, I left the selection of my HASS class to last, so I have to find one that fits my schedule instead of ... ; let me know what you think! 11.002J Fundamentals of Public Policy

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  . I googled "how to write an ode" but then got distracted by one of my ... impression that they were tunnels in the most adventurous sense of the word: cavernous cement cylinders wreathed in shadows and coated in a moldy film of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  long alumni typically wear it – I’ve spotted it on the fingers of a few others my age – but it has been present in all aspects of my life ever since leaving MIT. And it's a constant reminder to me (and others) of my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  . I unfortunately lost a handful of aura points in the past several days ... MIT and experience an assortment of campus life and events ... circadian rhythm out of whack. A few months ago, I was easily putting in

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Mailings & Comms

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage with the world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_AfLEXdUMI livestream of Ceri and I posting the blogger app and prospective bloggers coming out of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  list of summer activities. Like last year, things are still a bit ... on that later this summer it is time for those of you who might want ... ://youtu.be/Ofp26_oc4CA livestream of me posting the blogger app and prospective

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  symptoms include: Feeling quite hot, but in a 100°F kind of way Fatigue ... want to mention, which are some of the memorable moments from GIR's in ... general institute requirements, but they're really not so bad! For example

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  You'd think that if anywhere offered great computing help, it would ... resource right at my fingertips. You see, MIT offers free MATLAB to its ... , though, is no big deal. Lots of people have done it. Last summer, oddly

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... online from my hotel in Salt Lake City, hosted by the folks at The Art of Problem Solving. For those of you who don't know about AoPS, it is the best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  magician Not only is any sufficiently advanced technology indistinguishable ... existed on a scale of ‘competence at bodypainting’ it seemed like the skills ... , in fact, is my definition of magic – competence so much more advanced

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  Augmented reality is technology that enables you to overlay digital ... following augmented reality and virtual reality closely since the beginning of ... first time. Above is a short demo of me using the Meta 2. On the computer

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  . Then there's seminar advising, where your advisor leads a small group of students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few ... , MAS.A17 (Designing Technologies for Kids). Basically I get to play with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  research at the meteorology institute of the Freie Universität Berlin and ... things didn't work out because of covid. I chose Germany because of my long-running interest in the country and its culture, as well as because, of all the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to cast the situation in the linguistic frame of an 8 year-old, the auto ... -E-Cheese: addictively entertaining in the most kindergartenish, brain-frazzling sense of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  ! While I'm excited for the summer, with a continuation of my January internship at the BNSF Railway in Texas, I'll also be missing some of the great experiences I've enjoyed this semester. I'll tell you about one of them here

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  .600[/annotation] exam last week. At risk of sounding dramatic, I don't even need to ... asleep mid-exam; and, as a result, because I left most of it blank. cue the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT select students for admission?

  strong match between the applicant and the Institute. Our very open
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  whirlwind of finishing finals, flying to DC, driving home to Pennsylvania, visiting family in Delaware and New York, and traveling to Cape Cod with some ... ="Burton-Conner"]BC[/annotation]this afternoon, and it truly felt like home <3 Despite the bulk of my traveling

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024