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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  on my way to biology recitation, I was stabbed by a deep, instinctive urge to blog about my shoes. Understand, reader, that I had journeyed by ... keeps sending me mail. 12.How to get into MIT . . . literally. As in which

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  . Life is hard; get used to it. And then I came to MIT, and I realized ... MIT, freshmen get to do things! Freshmen get to be the president of ... ; people often stick around for a few years after graduating, whether to get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  looked like. We can't include the code for the function we used to get ... could get from this data set, we decided it would be cool to pick certain ... we filtered the data to get all the variations of "aahhhh." To get all

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  . Intrigued by the potential to get paid to play with airplanes, I asked Carl ... through junior high and high school. By the time I got to MIT, it was pretty ... was on the software required to get the aircraft working together, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  could get into MIT, and was floored when the university flew him to Boston ... engineering is the field for him. Chemical engineers get to draw on math and ... cement his desire to help low-income people by working to develop

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

  EA Telethon EA Students, This One's For You!

  

  Ok Early Action accepted students (AKA prefrosh), stay by your phones ... don't particularly want to walk all the way over to campus in order to ... as long as the telethon lasts, to answer questions in the comments, and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  they get to the author. --- CPW has been by far one of the best ... to hell" with an arrow pointing to MIT, but I'd have to get on the road ... attention to myself. By the way, those boards are amazing. The professor

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  BEST WEEK OF 2007 ...a self-rewarded happiness.

  

  by a little I mean a ton. I was invited to interview for my PhD at my top two choice schools!!! Needless to say, I did a happy dance. Still ... than when I got into MIT for undergrad. I knew I was going to get into

  • by Bryan
  • January 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Examination Nation 9 hours to prove that I learned something this semester.

  

  live with thermo by my side. Then I spend so many nights getting all the ... Materials II Before I begin to arduously study for my 1:30 final, I thought I ... morning. To: Bryan From: Matt Sung to the tune of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  with the life of the Admissions Counselor at MIT, here it is: We get applications, we get a lot of applications. We then need to read those ... . Its a long story. Ok, I need to get back to reading. I have a lot of

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  Mechanical Engineering course 2.009: Product Engineering Processes took to Killian Court (the big grassy quad by the Great Dome) to fire birds at pigs ... to fire I'm sorry, but this is the best action shot I could get -- it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back Why is it that breaks go by so quickly?

  

  by ridiculously fast, and now, I find myself back on campus, wondering where the last two weeks went - and getting excited about IAP :) As Jenny mentioned in her entry, IAP 2010 is about to begin! People are doing all sorts

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 3, 2010
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  in the class and go work together to get it done. We do this because ... MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student ... , all classes at MIT are taught by distinguished professors because we
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  MIT application essay. I figure it's getting to be around crunch time ... specifically, I'm going to lead by example by posting some of my own writing ... get good schooling. I will go to college for six years, get my Master

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  plowing makes it easier for me to get to my class which starts at three ... , walkway, and a red thing... its uhhh, getting harder and harder to sing ... ;     an original musical by Erick '17    

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

   you have the length of an elevator ride to pitch an idea. You can't get ... from a direct application to an employer. Everything elsethat they ... networking is to talk to people. Well actually, there's a little more to it

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  getting, we had one picked out and ready to order. The first day was a huge ... that this was going to get done. People’s level of interest was a truly ... , to President Reif stopped by at one point or another to check up on our

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  attempting to understand language by lysing the words and fractionating the ... to get a feel for what different research areas are like. Get to know ... figure out why. Get to know your PI(s). You want to get your name on a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  stop by Random Hall (and I happen to be home, and you recognize me) I ... you stop by Random Hall (and I happen to be home, and you recognize me ... , according to random people polled by Randommites outside of Random Hall

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  other and getting yelled at by the Sheriff for being too close to the ... ’re women. Did you expect this to be simple? By the time we get out of our $9 ... required to get across the bridge, even if you take Saferide, is sometimes

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010