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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  Brooklyn named Abi (if you're reading this, hi Abi!). After a quick stop at ... it matters. Abi then ran off to the Whitehead Institute to take a tour ... 'm headed to my last class of a day, an hour-and-a-half lecture

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  that just walking to Next is the faster option. I have a skateboard, but ... classes. I don't want to fork over cash for an electric scooter or a bike, neither do I want to pay for a Bluebike ride for an ~8 minute walk every

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  when to take your vacation or start a new job. I may never again feel ... This weekend, I moved into a new apartment. This academic year, I ... dorms you can choose to live in, but I wanted to get a place with my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  spent months working on :) On Class Council, we tend to have a signature ... . Some weeks, there is a lot of work to do and at times, people (students ... to satisfy everyone in a class of over 1000 students o__o. Despite the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  different kind of anxiety -- a waiting game. A countdown to 9AM on December 15 ... A year ago today, I was anxiously crouched over my laptop on the ... 's kind of assuring to think of it like this. It's a yes or a no. And I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  that will suffice. So I'm trying something new this time, a new reason for why in the time it has taken me to write this new blog entry I have ... truth. Yes, folks, I'm about to tell you the truth, and man, is it a doozy

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  . This included a ride on the Silver Line to Fish Pier, where we had dinner ... upstairs for a quick tour of his computing den, we headed back to Tetazoo ... years here will feel like that, a mere blip on the radar. And while there

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Random notes A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

  

  Hiro Nakamura on the NBC series Heroes, has signed on to the film 21, a ... entitles Everybody Loves A Math Joke is now the most popular post ever on the MIT blogs, thanks in part to its posting on digg.com, where it received

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  dish. Use a knife to draw a pattern on top if you're feeling fancy. Bake ... working on a new arrangement for my a cappella group. i just finished a book ... ) * * * * * * * over IAP i took a class on software-defined radio taught by MIT Lincoln

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  manage to deliver them to me in html-friendly ASCII). So when you see a new ... Oh, what a bad blogger I have been. I was lamenting to Matt last week that I haven't had a chance to think up any good entries - sorry guys

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  've also been on OpenCourseWare from time to time in an attempt to learn a ... on business and medicine) to stimulating lectures (like a few on the ... centimeter of precipitation - enough to finely coat the Earth's surface with a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  reflect on the transition back to MIT from a place where I have lived and ... setting. There is a great deal that I enjoyed about engaging in one-on ... provided sound counsel to my young charges along the way. There are a number

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  that I continue to interact with and get support from on a daily basis ... ; During the Gala, we got to meet a majority of the Black Community on Campus ... were hosted in New House joined in on a movie night held in the New House

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  around finals time, MIT had an invasion... Well as I walked to lab last week, I noticed something interesting on a crosswalk on Memorial Drive ... MIT! There's a couple more of them around campus, but I didn't want to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class ... sunshine and warmth to the other coast, especially on cold, icy New England ... my license before I left, oops), learn to drive, go on a sunset run

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  get to explore MIT on behalf of all of you. I'm new around here and so ... keep my finger on the MIT pulse and chase people around campus to get ... begin by telling you my thoughts on this new portal. Lots of schools have

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  more important in science: getting results or finding new questions to ... Parents are always the optimistic ones, right? My mom always has a response for me when I claim I made a mistake: We don't make mistakes; we

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  wrote, "I sent in my affirmative reply on March 21st, and have yet to recieve a reply, is that because I sent it in so quickly?" Harlan '10, I am ... applying to a school that I already sent the scores to? (of course MIT isn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  —drafts that never made it past the first sentence and exist in a folder on his ... Tube until eventually moving on to another project. Months went by until one ... since he’d first stepped foot on this new land. With renewed vigor in his

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  things on campus. I'd like to bring that back this year, along with a much ... 'm doing this semester is here - it's a guide to nice places to work on ... access. Click on the name of a location on the sidebar to see pictures and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019