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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  shops I haven't shown you photos of. Up first: the Lab for Manufacturing ... the FIRST shop (the easternmost building on all of campus, and a huge ... efforts to document all of them, I split the entry into 2 parts

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  fair amount of one-track mind scientists, you can also find some of the ... and it was the first time she had been on a plane. Lots of adjustment ... food and where?" The boxes you saw came from one of the campus food

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  post.  On the week of Pi Day, my friend and I both wondered how a whole ... even with it, the end of the first semester here felt like walking on a ... NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  became a brother of Theta Chi. I'd talked a lot to Noah about the whole ... even thinking about going to “Kresge Kickoff” that first week of the ... August Saturday, finding my way to the front of the tent to take my first

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  operated on my sense of time, then the concept of "morning" would be applied ... sleeper who could slumber through the initiation of a massive nuclear war ... reports galore, and hundreds of pages of reading each night. Last semester

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  that bothered me was the mentality of the class as a whole…… It terrified ... number of things that they are worried about. Grades, SAT scores, the ... organization for lost orphaned baby whales in the middle of Africa, speak Spanish

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  not studying, but managing to oversleep and forfeit 5 minutes of the ... the gaps of some of the stuff that I semi-blogged about. As you may ... over a month!) Well, here it is: Starting from pretty much the first

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  after running to Building 35 for a quiz. I've since spent the balance of ... microcontroller labs due over the past couple of days. One of them just stopped to ... 's 22 today) while the other helped an army of hallmates soak him with

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  As the blogs are quick to harp upon, MIT thrives over the month of IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions ... , all of which are numbered very inconsistently with respect to the usual

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  , how it’s always dark out after my last class of the day, that tells me ... the chillest thing ever." For the most part, that's a stinking load of ... seriously; don't try any of those at home :)"]safely[/annotation] in the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program: Now Taking Requests Plus... a fun mitadmissions.org milestone!

  

  requests. There are a variety of details on this page, but here's a quick ... 'd mention here that the MIT Overnight Program is open for business. You can ... students, and starting in March, the program is only open to admitted

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  tale of what was most likely my first ever math lesson. Moral of the ... time in the larger of the two living rooms, in which resided four squishy ... of them. Before every launch, I glanced at one line of the table

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  in another class I hustled to my first event of ROFLCON: "Before the ... ! The next day I woke up bright and early for the first panel of the day ... mildly. I’m overwhelmingly obsessed with the internet. I think a lot of it

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  for its front desk, it was only one of the packages I had ordered, and ... the beginning of December to the end of IAP, and then maybe we could pod ... probably make room in his group to staple with all three of us. The other two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  pages or longer than fifty. The research can be performed in your Junior ... 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 / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  appreciate a lot more now that i know japanese. literally the first line of the ... well here we are again. those of you have been keeping up with the ... 've just been too down in the dumps because of the quarantine to actually

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  engineering - I like the idea of making things. I like making things that will ... ...why do I even bring this up in the first place? Well, I've been wondering a ... doing for the rest of my life. And in some aspects: yes. I do. Raymond

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  50-50 with regards to if they had or not). CPW was the first admitted ... will never be able to use this word again without thinking of the ... knowledge -- the campus, the events, the city -- but most of all it was the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  pictures. This girl was there the whole time, and all of my pictures have ... life. This is the first year I've been old enough to actually vote, and ... hear the awesome director Michel Gondry speak (courtesy of LSC), and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  the Office of the First Year with the First-Gen Program! My one fun fact ... One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a lot of time outside of the Office of Admissions (or currently, on Zoom

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020