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• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  . I take every chance I get to try new places for dinner. Otafuku has a ... of news and found the New York Times. I was enamored by their graphics ... interview with the Graphics Editor, I knew I had a new goal to join the Times

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  dog but returned before break ended to spend New Year's with Raymond and ... competition where you code your own bot to compete against other teams' bots in ... undergraduates work in teams of up to 3 and create dynamic websites according to a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  when I started, and I get to look back at all I've done. Not gonna lie ... than just trivial occurrences to get me excited ("Oh, math joke, not ... , everything was completely new, and there was a lot. At MIT I learned how to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  and turn off your desperate-student-trying-to-get-employed persona and ... weird to just keep wearing some of these shirts around in your post ... shirts. I started by sorting shirts into ones that I actually wanted to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  to colleges that don't usually really get a lot of love, the Zion Bible ... around to getting dressed it was about 2:30 and I put on my SPS Shirt ... , except today in addition to all that I was excited about a shiny new CCD

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  to get, what are you supposed to do with your 80 to 100 years on earth ... (allowing others to build on your work, perhaps) or helping professors get ... in the sense of rushing to try and get an answer. yes, the answers to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  corridors in order to get around campus without walking in the rain outside ... energized by our diversity, with a meritocratic openness to talent, culture ... was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  with that beanie. I kind of want the weather to get colder just so I can ... these companies, from Apple to Google to Facebook to the NSA, falling over ... If you're looking for an in-depth view of Career Fair and all the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  , takes the principles of D-Lab: Design to a real-world level by showing you ... When most people I know think of MIT, the first thing that leaps to ... dedicated cadre of people at MIT dedicated to changing that perception - and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule ... part of CPW for me was talking to other prefrosh getting to know the ... prefrosh is like an open door to visit labs, classes, and get exposed to

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Are We Waiting For besides this video from the freshman arts program

  

  If you're returning to our site today, you may have noticed that we ... (appropriately) to the MIT Movies Emeritus page. In its place, you can find "What ... movie was produced by MIT students during the Freshman Arts Program which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  , go to docs.new (the most useful website shortcut frankly), and put ... to help prevent burnout and introduces some variation in your life ... class. This is due to a few reasons: Firstly, I have never had a semester

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  . Campus feels festive. We get to meet new people. There’s free food. However ... advance. Get their phone number. Arrange to check in and coordinate your ... thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  weeks, you are expected to have learned how to operate your first set of ... , learned independently how to program in Matlab, conducted your full set of ... oral presentation to give to your professors/TAs, given this presentation

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  yours -- "You have grit - the single most important factor to succeed in ... applying to things and places I didn't think I was actually qualified to get ... me that I wasn't going to get it, but I tried anyway in large part

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  there and look at everything you pass by. And you can get to downtown Seoul faster and more conveniently on the train than by driving, if you’re ... Ethiopia in January, much more able to handle myself in Shanghai, to get

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  “Walking in LA” by the Missing Persons and “Welcome to New York” by Taylor ... honestly didn’t expect to love New York as much as I did, even though the ... , quieter day-to-day reasons I love living in New York. Mostly, it’s a city

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  or Senior year. The topic must be relevant to your major, but can be ... must be completed by the end of your senior year and it will be permanently archived by the MIT Libraries. I did a little bit of web surfing to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Philly, Jersey, Wilmington. Jess, Keri, Lulu.

  

  for your patience throughout this long process, and for applying to be ... , although it's only been a couple of weeks. Lots to tell you about. Fall Travel About an hour after I launched the new site (talk about cutting it

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  think about all the new people you're going to meet in the next five hours ... So you're flying to college. Or you're flying anywhere alone, and you're ... 'll probably miss you, and you're excited because the airport you're going to has

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006