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• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  . I bought my computer off eBay in 2015, right before going off to ... indestructible, and according to the Internet a solid development machine. It had ... which was cool because I was not about to use Windows 8. We had some

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  live are preparing to celebrate Marathon Monday tomorrow but for those of ... and this is our last chance to make certain that every detail is perfect ... the weekend it makes sense for me to offer some tips about how you can

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more ... rudimentary to very advanced. It also provides data to the schools where the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  wrote a lovely blog post to document all the behind-the-scenes work that ... invite a student leader to help set the tone for the weekend and welcome everyone to campus. Andre H. '24 gave a great speech that was equal parts fun

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  particularly friendly, or, to be completely honest, even as[annotation note ... my acapella group to serving as the president of a dorm, or the vice ... positions. I've always put my election to these roles up to a couple of very

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  enthusiastic amateur MIT historian — Danny B.D. ’15 directed me to the 1930-1931 MIT Bulletin, which instructs those who wish to petition for entry to the Institute to room 10-100.']for decades,[/annotation] constituted the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Listen to “MIT Is…” with Cynthia F. ‘18 on the MIT Trashion Show, escaping the MIT bubble, and UROPing at the Media Lab

  

  around the idea of an audio thing for awhile, and decided to give it a shot ... guestblogger. Kellen works with MIT students to run the @MITStudents accounts on ... @MITstudents as being complementary to the blogs: whereas we hire a few students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  Before I get to the point of this entry, I'll answer a couple of questions. Karen asks: "This is a bit random and irrelevant to your entry ... /visiting the dorms?" I found the official policy here. Students are allowed to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  up running around madly and using the compass on my smartphone to ... different. When I graduated from college, it actually didn’t even occur to me ... related to diversity and inclusion, which had been long-time passions of

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  from our floor lounge to the homepage of the admissions website and got ... deleted every piece of media I'd ever uploaded to the blogs. The big wheel ... -something MIT grad, y'all want to know about campus culture, dining, UROPS

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  Contrary to popular belief, I actually do stuff outside of farting around and doodling. Stuff like going to class and paying attention to important stuff. Filing that one away in my list of Things To Refer To When

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  to be a Harvard Ph.D student this year, and we agreed to meet up and ... directly led to my job at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory this summer, too. In the fall, one of JPL's Curiosity engineers gave a talk to the Solar

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  . Careers AND Grad School. Thursday: Wake up at 5:05 AM. Board taxi to Logan Airport. Fly to Houston, TX for a day long interview. Now keep in mind, I have the GRE on Saturday. So I intended to study the entire flight

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  either an acronym or a number. There's a quirky language to MIT, a handful ... the day-to-day. Hack = hacking, of course; punt = punting work, playing ... Sciences; used to refer to any non-technical class. "I'm taking .006, 18

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  This past semester, I took 4.354, Intro to Video and Related Media ... organizing, to the filming, the lighting, the sound recording, and the post-processing. I got to experiment with Super8 film cameras, which are both extremely

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  documents that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg was a ... ; activism has largely been confined to a few small groups, many of which have ... awkward situation. While it didn’t want to appear indifferent in the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  This post is dedicated to 2021s who aren’t sure if they can survive ... new Pilot 2021 optional meal kit plan. The appendix also compares it to ... note: you are required to purchase a meal plan if you live in a dorm with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  to go through and answer them all tonight... unless they were so inspiring that I got the inclination to write a whole entry on them. So, if ... had to comment on Schrock, even though I was already scooped in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  committment to diversity. In fact, as early as 1917, the Boston Daily Globe ... students was international. MIT has since worked to increase this number, reaching out to nations all over the world. By 2015, 9.77% of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  “On a scale from one to ten, where one is ‘Eat to Live,’ and ten is ‘Live to Eat,’ where would you rate yourself?” The question was asked at ... [annotation note="A program that sends MIT students to work/teach/study in other

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024