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• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  friends, you're likely to finish the movie and the pizza and get into a ... CPW, or throughout the year...how do you get to do this? There will be a ... getting 6 hours of sleep... by senior year, I was getting to bed before 1 AM

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of ... of MIT page, was the most fundamental restructuring of MIT in its ... the Institute writ-large, ought to work: [visually_hidden]We are awake

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  the window, so when it gets cold I tape/fasten the curtains to the frame ... Every now and then I get a cool email from the outside world. Here ... breaking off to become the new College of Computing, my how things have

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my test scores?

  evaluated alongside other components of the application such as curriculum, grades, and other examinations. Test scores are not the single factor that ... applying to MIT and would like to see our testing requirements, please visit
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  , staying up until 3 in the morning just to get one more page in, one more ... and I'd love to do it again. I'm actually hoping to drop by the arts and ... 't want to get out of bed, or I start entertaining the idea of transferring

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  by Niven & Pournell (there's a page that explains the metaphor ... , for example, the sipb.mit.edu cell, run by the SIPB. This allows SIPB to ... 's the 8 page draft paper that was due today. Or the 6.004 lab where I have

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t worry, the king lives…

  

  . So my task is to keep the trains running efficiently during that time ... year is mostly just to not break anything. (For the clueless, these ... for this period of 12 months.) By the way, my name is Chris too

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 7, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  , California, who reportedly has the same music taste as everyone in LA, wants to ... ! Please give a warm welcome to: Aiden H. ‘28 from Loveland, Colorado, who grew up without internet and turned to books for entertainment like

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  some fast, diverse recipes to get you through the semester. 42 ... it gets cold every year, to Miami for New Year’s and a Green Christmas ... walk on the beach and Catching Fire at the movie theater by the yoga

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  ?) paper was due on Friday. In addition to the two communication ... -run newspaper, the Piled Higher and Deeper comic was joking about how to grade ... . First, we had a pun in our title. (Also, note the colon. Do we get +20 for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  want to check out the webcast of the ceremony celebrating the opening of ... 'm totally going to sneak down when I'm at the lab on Friday morning. This is ... out better, because the building has a cool structure, but it's hard to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  never going to end. It seemed like all my midterms were clustering on the ... belief. Now, as Spring Break comes to close, and the month of April has ... most challenging to courses at the same time. Last week, I had my first

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  Mass Ave, from Random Hall to wherever the exam will be held. A lot of ... , family, friends, random stranger standing next to me on the bus). I’m the ... ’ve rocked out to her everywhere, on Rock Band at Alpha Delta Phi, in the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  to me to risk judgment by other people. The fact that there are things ... able to enjoy things without getting obsessed the way I used to felt like ... all the dialogue that I planned out, but four pages of art was enough to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  Smith, who would go on to run GoogleX and PlanetOut, and later became the ... out solutions to the problems posed by our developing society and to ... the change to MIT brought about by the Supreme Court’s decision in the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  their fellow mortals, only get to attend a fraction of the events they ... group was getting quite hungry, so we decided to head to one of the ... without the booklet as it contains, in addition to useful maps of campus and

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  in the sense of rushing to try and get an answer. yes, the answers to ... particular quote in the opening pages that struck me so much that I added it to ... trying my best to get into good colleges. But trying to think about the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  missed the December 1 deadline by two weeks (I thought I wasn't going to ... interviewer some the favorite pages I made. After the interview, be sure to ... "wet and not-so-hot." It's quite an experience to be in a place where the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  this was enough, and we quickly left the room to get some air outside. We ... , there's more to life than getting into "the school of your dreams." In ... students affected by the storm to the 18th). It was definitely a roller

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  than MIT does. Here they are, side by side; the're approximately to scale ... , we can either get an answer of left, and move to the node's left child ... fronted the bill for everyone. Five I put myself to blame I let you get away

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023