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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  students burgers, as well as dye their hair! Every Friday at 5pm, East ... tube races/battles/funtime. Meanwhile, inside talbot... At the ... it! It was a little strange at first, but we quickly went into

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  get some furniture. Also, while we're at it, Cam's first blog post makes ... series of e-mails from my bff Sophie W. '14. Background: at the end of each ... am writing to remind you that you have until Monday, December 16 at 9

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  to be here at MIT without you and all the lessons you've taught me ... me. I'm sorry I didn't spend this Thanksgiving at home--I promise I ... in the 3+ months I've been here. Being at MIT has really opened my eyes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  'm pretty sure they don't actually see me at all in our room since I've been ... done. You know that thing that they say where learning at MIT is like a ... - Notoriously a challenging class at MIT, 2.006 is all about modeling fluid flow

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  . At some point, my letters morphed into their current form - my ... quickly (she was slow.) Having handwriting that you enjoy looking at is a ... .022, then for 8.223. He's a character. // that's supposed to say vacuum at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  provides a "broad base" for physics at all. The approaches in the two fields ... is great! If a course isn't offered at your school, MIT will not ... like math, you are expected to be at a certain level when you get here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  perfectly at ease with social interaction!" Me 2: "Ah-ah-ah, don't be getting ... sitting at the table over there? Come on, get on it. Say hi to him." Me 1 ... eventually I'd have to at least meet a few new people. And as orientation week

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  -Student Government at MIT Serious Stuff with Silly Names -Serious Chemicals ... series of alarms, and a lot of sneezing. At some inhumane hour: my friend ... later. At a much more reasonable hour (like, 10am) my alarm. I blew my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  do you think about x global issue" or "what is your goal here at MIT ... idea of at least what direction you're going, but, if you have one, don ... comes first Yeah, academics are important at MIT, but quality friendships

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  back where I started - at the check-in counters. Turns out that my gate has a SEPARATE security line at Logan airport (beware, those of you who ... AGAIN. At this point, I was wearing my MIT 2014 track jacket instead. TSA

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  myself, or (at the minimum) seeming like a creep watching someone else ... Mojgani, the writer I met at Boston University last month after a ... bed at the same time and sing lullabies in harmony. Not nearly as many

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  this IAP?" "Oh, you know. I'm working at a startup in San Francisco ... everything from shadowing a doctor to working a brief stint at a finance giant ... decided to pursue a position at a fashion startup that boasted a fresh

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  just don’t give a shit.” - Hardi Meybaum, GrabCAD CEO/founder I work at ... think I could do better at with work?” Hardi: “Gabe, I think you’re doing ... . Hardi had never cussed at me, much less refused to answer one of my

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  ourselves. We don't look at each other competitively- I've honestly never felt ... the biomedical field at some point (yay biomedical robots), I decided ... /recitation and at least another 8 doing all the readings, notes, and the psets. I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  decision they made during their time here at MIT. Pledging MIT Sigma Chi ... life at MIT. You can avoid it, embrace it, or cohabitate with it. Coming ... -long bonds at MIT. My freshman year, the process of Recruitment allowed me to

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  cited (at 39) to "An Analytic Survey of Legacy Preference,", which appears ... any data, but instead itself cites (at 84) “No Distinctions except Those ... legacy-granting MIT.” (emphasis mine) Here they cite (at 371) the “MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  of the Sport Death shirt that at this point it's probably cheaper to ... , Egypt, before starting at MIT. This summer, I’m interning at RIA Novosti ... : the oldest dormitory at MIT (1918) and one of the smallest (~150

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  -- but also shows off and helps fund student projects. a day at the fair I ... delicious chili-cinnamon hot chocolate. At one booth down the first row, a ... leave it at that. Its most heavily marketed capability is the ability to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  Both my father (MCP, '87) and I spent some time here at the Institute ... was willing to shell out for it. After all, when you look at that Brass ... of my time at MIT. Some of the cooler features that I really enjoy

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  arrived in Bath bright and early around 10am. That means waking up at 5 am ... cold, but still!) Then I took a train to London at 6am and another train ... charming chocolatier from France. Thanks to my three French classes at MIT, I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012