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• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  feels like to apply to colleges overseas or out of state. The pressures ... your friends or family. The hardest part of applying to college. The best ... some of your thoughts and feelings with your peers, to show a spirit of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  watched Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts and streamed random things ... heard of. It went big around the same time that Candy Box did, and Cookie Clicker and Candy Box were the first two clicker games I ever played. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  ’m in Cambridge, reeling with a move cross-country and the start of the ... week ago, and I’m more settled in now. I’m still getting the feel of my ... the easy-but-fun ones. My roommates are MIT freshmen too, and some of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  the stairs down to the first floor of building 10 and then walk to ... the traffic of the first-floor infinite and is significantly faster ... heel and then shift weight to the front of your foot, you are performing

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  , and kept the rain off of me pretty well, although the ravages of time ... the very next day and bought me this great, top-of-the-line umbrella ... umbrella and the kind of service I had come to expect from an umbrella. With

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong 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 paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  Hello friends, it is near the end of term (*cries*) and so today, I ... been released into the wilds of the internet...) 3. First Years are ... insistent on seeking the facts. A place of rigor, ingenuity and real

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  , and how I look at the world. 6.172 taught me a lot of technical things ... Representation, taught by Fox Harrell (one of the best professors I've ever met and ... .628 as a kind of gateway into CMS and the classes I actually enjoyed, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  ." So I dumped the remainder of my IAP paycheck into a violin and an alto ... to blog. Here's a quick summary of my last two-and-a-bit weeks to prove ... free food, wander around campus terrifying prefrosh, and brew gallons of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy ... aerospace. From the start, I knew that MIT had a strong culture of computer ... permeated the culture. Student collaboration and hard, motivating problems

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  best and worst parts of the dorm.") Also bonus: word cloud compiled from ... . Each hall has its own, and the dorm is the umbrella to each of those ... outside of EC or MIT. + The building isn't clean and has a generally grungy

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  '10 and Rich '10 Dima and Rich's room is located in the opening of the ... singles at the end of their first year. "I picked my room because I thought ... option of a coffin single or a double, and of course when given the option

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  December Events

  

  , doctors, and varied health officials in some of the poorest parts of rural Rajasthan, India, to attempt an understanding of the complex and multi-layered narratives of the poor and the sick. The film looks at some of the often

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  , but the importance of managing your time well cannot be understated, and ... freshman-upperclassman relationships, and that's because of the power dynamic ... the end of the world (I remember getting a fifth week flag in 5.111 and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  daughter, and as far as I know, she’s the first of Blogger Generation 2 ... least if I go by the frequency of kicks to my ribcage during my physiology ... seen her brain on the ultrasound, and it is already quite gyrified, so I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  when I got home, only minus the drool. And when I’m tired, I have kind of ... tree cut down with my bare hands and moved to the middle of this big ... anyways, the moral of the story is that I woke up this morning and thought

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  round-the-world voyage, and came back to present his theory of evolution ... For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I more often talk about aspects of MIT that are freely offered to the world

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  the middle of nowhere, or way overbudget. My roommates and I settled for ... Manila, lived three years in Boston, and am now spending the summer in San ... right now I'm in Mountain View, an hour long drive from SF. The scales of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  quite honestly be the reason I got through first semester), and would ... FIRST OF ALL: In case that you haven't thought of enough reasons to come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  the 13th, fate decided to rain upon Sam and me loads of good luck last ... : Summit Ruth: The first half means "to aggregate" and the second half is ... nearly-2000 year old piece of wood, and a three-level gift shop at the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006