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• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  at least mildly entertaining. I definitely needed a few laughs this ... -matched with this Sunday at a short training session, and in just a week, we ... dose of pancakes at 2 am in favor of staying up till 5 am just talking

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  some of you at CPW :) Second: I remember when it came time for me to ... horror stories about the impossibility of maintaining a high GPA at MIT ... new major at Rice) and the fact that MIT seemed to provide a ton of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  My first final exam at MIT was 8.012: "Physics For Masochists ... . He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn ... , a professor at MIT. Woah. He was there because he's a recitation

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  of my visit to Anaikatti is to work at one of the tribal hospitals in ... help. It’s been an amazing experience so far. The doctors at the ... from working at the hospital, I’ve also made a couple trips out of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  busting out the chessboard; apparently Keith is very good at chess, having ... each way, at 7am, after only three hours of sleep. (The latter was due to ... router if things got out of hand, but that never came about. Still, at one

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  their helpful faces at the end of my information sessions. The time had ... your staff id in your back pocket and listen with rapt interest at ... coolest places on our campus. Looking at it day after day you tend to forget

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  's perhaps most important for some future nerds here at MIT (not to be confused with nerds from the future here at MIT). As I'm sure you already know ... I love being at the most (a good thing since I spend most of my waking

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  class at MIT on my resume. Not bad. Plus it's my favorite professor's last semester at MIT, so I'm happy to get to work with him teaching his class. 6.01-Intro to EECS EECS, for those of you who didn't stare at the floor during

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  in the world." Money has always been tight at home, especially after ... him that was a prerequisite for going to elementary school. At 3, he ... Street was a 16, for instance. At Woodstock Elementary, his second

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  place on the hierarchy of desk assembly, and it took me at least 45 ... friend Sondy at pika is urging me to share the following video filmed outside my door on moving day at Random Hall. At personal expense, I am

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  Orientation. (Where was I going? I have no idea, but I was lost.) I had been at ... strangers at Random Hall, still feeling like I'd been displaced into someone ... Paul B. was at least 5 feet tall*. *Actually, he might be over 5 feet

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  that he is, in fact, at MIT. Tim the Beaver beams at the camera ... , Bridger celebrated his arrival at one of the world's most renowned ... here, but I think I want to join. In the same vein, Lin was present at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  crisis has affected many, here at home and around the world. I know that ... analytic and human skills you will learn-by-doing here at MIT are the exact ... at any time during your four years here, be assured that we will be

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  claimed to be any good at this updating thing, okay? (But for real, I have ... taking 18.02 and 18.03 at the same time.) Um, so I was talking about Reg Day. The thing is, it was my 8th and final Reg Day at MIT, and despite

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  pinned at his waist, I mostly just ended up rotating until I was parallel to the ground. Luckily for my head, he decided to let go at this point ... these events? ALL OF THE FOLLOWING happened at roughly the same time: 1

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  A huge perk to living at MIT is living right across the river from ... mp3 player and bring it under your ghost costume. At the given signal ... is taking place at Christopher Columbus Park. To find the exact

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  figured 18.01 would be a walk in the park, I took one look at the p-set and ... started the pset at 9:30p.m. What follows, friends is what is known as a ... fact. But what makes it so hard? it's just maths right? Sort of. Here at

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  Admissions blogger is its Editor-in-Chief? [answer at the end of the entry ... . Boiko: Last year, a senior in one of our courses came up at the end of ... interesting? We think that, at least partially, it's because they approach

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  Christina Barcelona playing at the Kendall theater. Went in pouring rain in a ... field day they know something is definitely up. At 5:30 4 boxes are ... with the easy-going folks down at the MIT boathouse later, and I'm ready

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

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

  

  I work at Hasbro in Rhode Island, about a 1 hour train ride away from ... most Summit activities will be at Northeastern University, the Museum of ... it'd be good to blog about it. We arrived at the Museum of Science and

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008