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• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  treated disorders to establish a system of continuing care while on campus ... highest suicide rate? The answer to that question is: No, this is not true ... . Most people who come to MIT are happy, well-adjusted people, and leave

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  weekend! Wait, that’s a normal amount of sleep to get? Missed that ... to function properly. When you don’t get sleep at night, you end ... use the provided parts to make air cannon to get a ping pong ball to

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  publish this past spring. The summer snuck up on me before I had a chance to ... seems like a better time, as people prepare to arrive on campus and start ... far behind my classmates and I'll struggle to get good grades (I know

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  this year. Good on them. Ceri listened to "Here Comes a Thought" from ... the top .001%. You need at least 150,000 minutes to get to this level ... their top songs to, so give it a listen! And go check out Jebby's blog on

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Coming up with entry titles is harder than it seems Reasons 9001 and 9002 to get "absolutely pumped about CPW," as Cam would say.

  

  surprise care-package from my mom (contents: Best of Mr. Bean DVD), to name a few things. But I'll have to save those for another post because we have ... happened since my last post - I stopped being a teenager, I went to San Diego

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  parallelogram to the other end, you’re going from a side to a side that’s parallel ... , eventually you’re going to draw out of the zonotope. What this doesn’t explain ... What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  , there's more to life than getting into "the school of your dreams." In ... - deciding what you want, what you need and how you're going to get it. When ... Earlier this month, I asked for your reflections on the application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  lot? That disappointment took us back to the 24-hour grocery store on ... out on dorm row. Passers-by don't seem to realize that their conversations waft up to my room - heads up, in case you ever find yourself on a 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  Newsweek "How to Get Into College" magazine is now on shelves, and features ... meaning to get an entry up about painting my room, but until then, I'd like ... to paint murals! The mural I'm working on is a scene from the end of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  further in this entry if you're still on dialup, because your computer will ... when you get to MIT. And everything that follows from here is Kim '09 ... " /> Say Hi to the friendly deskworker... if you're lucky, she'll let

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  content. First, we had to come up with some titles. All of our titles were ... computer model to predict where people will look on an arbitrary image. The ... conference was really fun. I met a ton of people AND got to swim on a Florida

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my ... to New Hampshire to spend the holidays with my family. As I've posted ... Hello Internet! It's been a while. I last blogged on EA Decision Day

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  flew on many air cars to places near and far enjoyed life by the day ... to be a doctor in games computers and learning didn't get into the big ... 't even ask to live! we just get put here without any say in the matter so

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  schools. It's not an easy task either. Waiting on pins and needles to hear ... . Don't go comparing yourselves to other people who did or did not get in based off of the numbers you listed on your application because that

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  figure out what I need to do to get into grad school, or if I even want to go to grad school? How do I get a credit card? Is getting one ... ?  Should I have gone to a non-tech school?  I never see anyone pay to get

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  family/friends aspect and making new friends =)" Moving away to college ... room and leaving a few posters on the wall. I was going to college. I ... , 2003: Bryan boards flight 382 from Houston to Boston. So I get to my

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  JT would get back to them with the changes to the schedule for that ... feet on the ice. Now hockey may not seem that foreign to many of you ... drive home to New Hampshire for a hockey game. My brother and I were part

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  Happy New Year to all of you! I spent a good 30 minutes this morning hogging wifi and using the textplus app on my iTouch to wish my friends back ... ☺ And that happens to be just a little too far away, haha. Following two

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

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  seldom has enough free space for me to actually get work done.  [caption ... ~[/caption] here’s what’s on my desk, from left-to-right, top-to-bottom: my friend Katie Zhao’s new novel, [annotation note = "Katie and I have the same

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  architecture/woodworking/crafts nerd, I knew we had to go on a tour; I spent the ... getting carpal tunnel"]orbital sander[/annotation]to veeeeeeery carefully ... , over and over, trying to get it right and figure out what the relative

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019