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• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  10th will always hold a [annotation note='Beyond the matter in Lisbon ... think, learning from a friend that my high school robotics coach, Neil ... hands with a rueful expression and said to me "That’s like asking me to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  mentioned that. Also, BC's policy is kind of a policy in name only. If the ... having a painted room over a white one without having to do any work? Mike said: i don't really know how to say this but i've been trying to find a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  Nearly three years ago, I published a post provocatively titled ... . Scheduling and Registration DEGREE REQUIREMENTS (for a formal overview, go ... , Arts, and Social Sciences, and 3-4 subjects in one department to attain a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Events

  December Events

  

  a brief presentation by the panel members, which will be followed by a ... Fatigue or A Ten Second Sting?? you decide. WHAT? Flu Walk-in Flu Shot ... first prize: IPOD runner ups: MASSAGE vouchers! WHAT? Design a poster

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  descend upon the MIT campus... CPW Events Wow, there are a lot of cool things going on. Here are a few that caught my eye in the CPW schedule ... more, taught in a fun/crazy style by MIT students. Awesome music at ZBT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  bad ideas." The idea is to solicit student-made web interactives ... presented to prospectives as like "here, this is a fun thing that may ... down: * A magic 8 ball that, when clicked, pulls a random class out

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  It's been a while. Hi. (This is a long post, but you won't complain ... isolation of the Clock gene in mice. Clock is the result of a point mutation ... ~24 hours to a little over 25 hours. To express this mutation

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  applications? Do you get the summer off? Actually, it is a busy (though certainly ... way that we learn about admissions from a more global perspective and ... professional conferences. As you've read, Ben and I have done a couple already

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  In a public high school with about 700 people per class, there was ... learned to shove facts into my head, regurgitate it on a test a week later ... . It was a fear of being wrong that came at the price of making progress

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a previous entry about Spring 07 classes, I took a short story writing class ... Yang '09, each of whom had taken a class from him and recommended it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  though we haven't meaningfully updated our web page in two and a half years ... floor is arranged into suites of 4-10 people each. This means that for a modest reduction in room size, every 6 people in the dorm get a full

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  that I took part in: web.lab! It’s a student-run course here at MIT ... This is a guest post by one of my friends, Heidi Z. '27, one of the ... most unique, liminal pockets of time at MIT, showing that a month can

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  . he got back a wide variety of responses: one student said it documented ... between thesis, antithesis, and synthesis in writing. specifically, a thesis is introduced at the beginning of a text (oftentimes in the form of a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  As evident from my last blogpost, I'm doing a lot and it's taken a ... responsibilities and just sit for a couple of days. This week has exploded in my ... experience this past Thursday where I got yelled at so badly I had a panic

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  was so in love with this series as a kid. we are going to pretend this ... any meaning and also if today is a Tuesday or a Sunday signing a book ... years of my life to a novel I didn’t believe in. [annotation note

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  By Joseph Colosimo '12 Intro So, I’m Joseph Colosimo. I’m a amateur blogger, coder, gamer, and web designer (rather, I try to be). I came from ... . While I was there, I met old friends, made new friends, lifted a few

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born in Moscow on March 12, 1992, into a demographic hole created by World ... dad’s night job as a taxi driver, combined with my parents’ negligible

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  inspire students towards a lifelong devotion to science, technology, and engineering. FIRST works something like this: every year, in January, a star ... alliances of three robots each compete against each other on a small, enclosed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  a lot of surfing on each school's web sites to gather as much ... Keuhne: "[In many ways, picking a college is a lot like marriage: the ... , a kindred spirit admissions officer/blogger at the Johns Hopkins

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  lodged “MBTI” (the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) into a closet in my head for things I don’t pay attention to, until I recently talked to a few ... periods of introspection, helped in part by taking a Myers

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017