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• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  clearly laying on a giant soft foof with my new friends, listening about an ... energy is amazing. CPW is a special time of the year for everyone on campus ... spontaneously planning my life here on walks around the neighborhood and during

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  something like "Dear Anna, Good luck on your J-Lab presentation tomorrow! I ... saw my name on the list of recipients for a carnation, from the sorority ... of chocolate chips while at Shaw's, and invited me over to New House 3

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  I’m perched on the top step of the super-architected Stata amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching ... your thoughts on architecture, craft, the intersections of design and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  help you get a new perspective on the application process. I don't expect ... relevant on your application, but take extra care to emphasize the aspects of ... . Take it from me: for any school, simply being on campus is a great way to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  on an issue, either showing both sides of an issue or heavily ... room. I found this out a day ago. I am devastated I spent $800 on a new ... spent a good chunk of time trying to find an adequate representations of

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

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  company) based on humans of new york. it's lucky to share uniquely intimate ... . Inspired by Brandon Stanton's Humans of New York. Interviews are 100% real ... i absolutely love the blogs, but there are a number of other places

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  programming is a lot like cooking, which I am a fan of. Writing good code is ... .” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high school – I was definitely of the “I’m not technology-oriented enough to go

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  class was also a 9am-10:30am class on Mondays and Wednesdays. To those of ... . Students consider the concept of the "aca-fan" and reflect on their own ... shifted over time. At first, listening to this new wave music was an act of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  come up with new ideas. The car on the dome had been done, so a couple of ... on that site). All of a sudden, the hack pictures were all over the ... . Exit 114. =) Now, on to the hack: After like an hour and a half of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  bed and put on pants. The smell of scrambled eggs brings me downstairs ... rooms. And there was no one else on the floor, but I'd hear the voices of ... notebook, and she greets me good morning too. I work on a problem set for the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  in Maseeh 1) It’s new. Or at least it feels that way. Maseeh used be a ... . There’s a lot of them. On the plus side, it really motivates you to add your ... inconvenience that is very specific to our room since we live on the wrong side of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  sleeping playlist and you're JUST ON THE BRINK OF DRIFTING OFF when the kid ... in harmony on my first flight of sophomore year and 2) it is keeping me ... 't give you the dissatisfaction of telling you what major I've settled on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  complex (ha), so here goes: When I was on my way back from Central America ... opened my eyes to this exciting new form of history, which I've never ... going on and under her exhortation of "you know, you should really just do

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  it'd be good to blog about it. We arrived at the Museum of Science and ... part of the evening. On the main level there was a bar of catered food ... where I'm staying on campus. Kim '11, who was also in Toy Design with me

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  process so that everyone working on the book, including myself, was aware of ... what looked good on our monitor came out much too bright in the proofs ... reason, decides to take on, even if it means losing a few hours of sleep

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy New Year! A look back at 2006 and ahead to 2007

  

  , and changes of power on Capitol Hill. At MIT, we learned more about ... Happy New Year! It’s hard to believe that it’s already 2007. 2006 was the year of YouTube, iPods, gas for $3.50 a gallon, record

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  new york, which i was interested in because most of my friends will be ... attempting ai research seriously, and G seemed like a good way to try that out ... - it assumes that you should pick a job based on what kind of problems

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  where I'm...t-posing with the rest of my bio summer camp on Killian ... graph of 1/x in quadrant 1. For no good reason, either--I was doing fine ... grind of a new week. I camped out in the 8.02 pset night held by TSR^2, as

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  mostly, I was on top of my problem sets. There was a funny incident, where ... in mind when I wrote this, but one year is a lot of time to hold on to ... wasn’t quite the case. But a lot of good friendships stayed the same and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  classroom on campus, a small room in Building Four within hearing distance of ... -confidence, start a good pattern of sleeping and exercising and eating vegetables, and ... problem sets on the first floor of my dorm, unlock the door for friends, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012