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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  a lot of it went bad before she had a chance to eat it. You have to remember that you're buying for yourself, and that you have limited time ... runner (=50+miles a week) so food is very important to me." Well Dave, you're

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  we will welcome them to campus for the first time as members of the ... to college. But now the payoff has come, and it is time to make the ... 'll be able to accompany your student next weekend. But before I do that

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  high school me seemed to have time for everything. She filled up the ... —or rather, you have no idea what is going to end up mattering, so do your best ... very confused, told me I wasn’t supposed to have been able to reserve

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  your process – the teamwork, intentions, and values that you bring to it ... building things that did), that it is actually good to change your direction ... valuable when it is not about beating your opponent but when it is used to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I need a high school diploma to apply?

  Institute when you're here. For some more information, check out What to do in ... MIT doesn't have any age requirements and doesn't require high school completion to apply. Each year we receive a small number of applications from
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  mind you’re always stressed out and you always have to be working, even ... you are taking, you are not going to have a good time.” -Azaria Zornberg ... ’t have a 5.0 leaving MIT, doesn’t mean you’re going to get nowhere

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  trafficked, but wouldn't it make more sense to have the chainsaw in building 46 ... am happy to announce that, in case of zombie invasion, we will have a ... Hackers don't waste any time hacking CPW this year. It's the first

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  weeks, you are expected to have learned how to operate your first set of ... , learned independently how to program in Matlab, conducted your full set of ... oral presentation to give to your professors/TAs, given this presentation

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  ... I am an MIT alum have to say that you rubbing your MIT admission in ... scores and your rank in high school, and you certainly have nothing to brag ... Question One Elizabeth asked, I have one... I was talking to my dad

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  try to find your way around. Have fun. See MIT. And for anyone who ... longer ringing) Mom: "Why do you have to be so hard-headed?" Me: "I ... will be an emotional weekend for us all, but just remember to have some

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  format?? Dilemma.) Simply lovely You don't have to stop biking once you're at MIT, though! Join the MIT Cycling team. Don't have a bike ... On Sunday, a coworker and I decided to be tourists in our own city

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  in time management.  You've got tons of things to do, as well as even ... time for anything. Fortunately, there's two periods in which most of your ... also many sources of data that we have yet to process, like a dictionary

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading Some final notes before decisions are posted.

  

  number of applications this year, up 9% from last year. At the same time, due to an increased yield (the percentage of admitted students who decide to enroll) and a steady class size, we have admitted even fewer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  , mostly just having the time to eke out a few spare sparks of metal from the ... time I chose to be with friends, of which many choose to live in the ... , and we got to open a box full of more lives, but this time they went

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  out which jar they raided before you take the mollusks to market. Your ... because I am lazy have been preoccupied with my schedule. I've been wonderful! Classes have started! REX happened! Politics is happening! Blogging

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  confusing mess of “Where do I start? How do I start? When will I have time to ... don’t have time to watch hour-long episodes of cooking. That’s totally ... ’t have time to cook, or can’t be bothered. There’s all the restaurants in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  , and you’re trying to play sports/look for internships/have friends ... . First you have an arbitrary function. Let’s say you’re plotting the ... of your speed at any given time during the run. If you plotted every

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  year. Maybe your friends have promised to take the bus out to Wellesley ... marathon for you to run, and then your parents won't have to make the trek ... anyone runs bandit--you have to qualify for it. You have to run really fast

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  amount of time you have outside of the school year to explore different places and to travel broadly in your time away from school. Just a month ... years. And this summer is no exception! I have relocated to New York

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  someone from Spain is reading this, allow me to say that you have one ... day). 496. Other than the classes, there's plenty of time every day to ... complete sentences rolling off your tongue, and soon, you're starting to make

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008