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• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  admitted who don't mind the expense of traveling to boston for the weekend in exchange for free food. Which is totally an okay thing to do, by the way ... asked me "would you like to be considered for a spot, or have you made a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring Break! A little guessing game.

  

  . I leave for (blank) on Saturday. Anyone want to guess where I'm going ... for Spring Break, I'd definitely be down there working on 2.007) Hint #2 I have to travel east from Boston to get there.

  • by Bryan
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  , swayed by other factors important to me, including distance from home ... I had attempted to be (for lack of a better cliche) jack of all trades ... barely scratches the surface. By trying to give prefrosh the option of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  Spanish, and recently decided to get back into the habit of using it once ... experience points (XP) for each lesson, with ~10XP corresponding to a normal 5 ... the leagues restarted, I began working to get ahead of the initial

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  photos by Sunday for a chance to become not really famous.) ... the same time. Well, I eventually decided to settle for the spamless ... Physics Students) in your major are a fantastic way of getting to know

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  -shirts (because blue is sneakier) and waited for the next game to start. Never ... managing to stay up all night long, I left East Campus for Logan airport. On the way, I passed the Dome. I looked for Ben to say goodbye, but

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  ’m finally getting around to writing mine, and as you may be able to tell, one ... diverse, which I am looking forward to. So far we have read short stories by ... just have to get over my literary analysis writer’s block and get the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  they wanted to write a musical, so they did. It was named for three words ... simply to not do an assignment, or not study for a test. One might do that ... . As part of their quest to be hardk0re, they get involved in a hack: a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t Dump I got stopped by the police.

  

  Awesome title, right? In short, my Friday involved graffiti, press conferences, and getting stopped by the police. Just one photo to whet your pallet. A series of updates on Orientation and the start of Rush are long

  • by Bryan
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  's a requirement for biology majors to graduate, and I'm a senior this ... knows how I write, so I won't get the obligatory first paper boost for ... , because individual class schedules for the fall term came out. (My very

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  If you walk down Massachusetts Avenue to the Charles River esplanade and cross the Harvard Bridge without getting knocked over by a militant ... fact, squares are so used to being completed by me that nowadays they

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  . But that's another story for another blog entry. What am I going to ... . For the project to be successful, we had to beat them. ICE is fairly ... ROTC in addition to waiting until the last minute for my ICE project. But

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  must pay $1.10 a gallon to get rid of this oil, which is used to deep ... On Wednesday, 70 degree weather spurred MIT students to sport cute ... , with accumulations of 5 to 8 inches of snow expected. Meanwhile crude oil

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  artistically. For my Jazz History course, I've been listening to a lot of jazz ... for my photography seminar. I have 24/7 access to the darkroom in the ... contrast was pretty tricky to get right, but I'm pretty happy with how it

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  programs for high school students which allow participation by non ... efficient way to get into a lab. 6. In response to my entry on Adam's and my ... , since it wasn't a very full flight and I had a whole row to myself. 7

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  nonblogging is apparently reason for you to yell at me. Please don't. Every post ... 's warm here, you still have to drive to get anywhere in Florida, Jamba ... related to MIT, except for the fact that my extended visit would not have

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  in shape year round. I never have to worry about voluntarily getting to ... to dedicate to psets, studying for exams, and pursuing extracurricular ... -register (at Harvard or Wellesley for example) or if you want to take graduate

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  (though perhaps not for me) to compete GPA-wise with applicants from ... for the first time. Vidya, aware of my unprovable connection to the ... course of my life. Sarah and I moved, freshly affianced, to New Orleans. I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  . You’ve probably got important reasons for wanting to transfer. My ... excellent resource for essay writing. To paraphrase Episode 6: How did your ... resilience just by applying. To all the folks who are working full

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  . Select up to 5 of your favorite pieces that you might want to stare at for ... ! (hopefully).   If you win the lottery, you get to go back to the ... half of the art had already been retrieved by the time I popped in to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016