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• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  to know them a little better. If you're nice to them, they might be willing to snag a cot for you to sleep on, which means you won't have to lug ... be :) If you've checked out the CPW website, you will have noticed a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  ’s right, MIT requires you to graduate with a strong mind and body, while ... sign up for these classes on the P.E. website through a lottery that ... signed up on a whim, not bothering to read the course description, since it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  ). The term-long project (and ~40% of our grade) was to write a detailed business plan as if we were about to start a company. This involves ... Engineering”. I uploaded a copy of the 16-page plan here if you want to take a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of ... ? Hacksaw? Russ will always know where to find it. Everyone's getting a bit ... that he'll be heading to his alma mater West Point next year, as a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  There are some things that only make sense to you once you're living ... is easy these days. Fact 1: my internship switched to being a Canadian ... 't believe it's happening, sometimes, now. When we returned to East Campus in a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  down and enjoy a meal. I let go of my workout routine to make more time ... make sense. I scheduled a time to meet with my TAs, met up with my ... making a decision made me anxious. For many nights, I chose to simply go to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  from a corner where the wall is painted black to a corner underneath my ... conferences. I had a thermo pset and an essay to work on the night I found out ... nearly everyone at AWP, I hadn’t been to a conference, writing-centric or

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  ensures that they are active. To make a whole bunch of yogurt: pour a gallon ... bottle start to pressurize, so make sure to check on it after a day. Taste ... school students will be leaving home to go to a university knowing little

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  ado... How do I meet know more people (To new friendships! A special thanks to my dear friends Matt Q. ‘19 and Noah M. ‘20) Recently, a friend ... , making the effort to know, rather than meet, others has always led to the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  making plans to build an igloo tomorrow. I've been working on a few ... it to make a program that did things on the Internet. In fact, I ... solver" or "how to wrap a wonton." So have fun. Make mistakes. Make a mess

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  humor too, however, since I got an A anyway. In case you didn't care to ... Friday happened to be a Saturday. Let me restate this so that profundity ... ,” according to its equestrian-friendly website. No horses did I see, but statues

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  like the professionals do on how to spend a summer in Boston. Now first ... list of things to do is by no means expansive and there are probably a ... was able to get on the T, miss a stop, get off at the wrong stop as much

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  force me to have a much deeper understanding of the material. Yes, you ... starting to get a little idea of what being a scientist feels like.  You can ... whatever). Because I don't want college to be just a natural extension of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  my next attempt. I got a bit bold here and tried to make it look like a ... through. But to make ornaments and all the other pieces, you gather on a ... , but to make a cup, you blow a bubble, transfer the piece from the pipe

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  Symphony Orchestra, and the Media Lab, to name just a few. MIT Dramashop ... , and nerds you'd expect it to have, such things are only a fraction of what MIT has to offer. Being an artsy person, I signed up for a pre

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  ! Another person I would like to give a shout-out is Katie Bodner ’15 (whom I ... design her experiments and now she is a pro! Good job to all my baby bears (I am so proud!) A note to freshmen entering this fall: When you are

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  department’s minimalist but colorful website), I decided to apply. And for a ... A’s, planned to go to GSD (Harvard Graduate School of Design), dreamt ... you're doing. In a matter of months, I’d gone from preparing to apply to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  GAMIT 2004] Bruno - A unit of volume equal to the size of the dent in ... to highlight just a few of MIT's cool environmental programs: The ... Initiative: "Planet Earth is a monument to the magnificent complexity that can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  is represented to make for a more straightforward analysis. For ... cool patterns is to make visualizations. I can do this with a variety of ... 'm quantifying. I try to make plots in a way that allows each plot to show a new

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  shifts in perspective that make a huge difference in the way you feel ... hard, make all the cheatsheets, do the practice tests, go to office hours ... . Don't waste time trying to prove to yourself that you can finish a PSET

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019