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• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  anything to them was Battle of the Bands.* For an hour and a half one night ... difference from the stage to you to just nigh the electric breakdown of air ... Hey-o prefrosh. Are you dying of anticipation yet? CPW starts

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  at the center of the room, and quietly slid to the edge of the room ... think it’s also a great set of steps for how to socialize and discover new ... for all of us to “break the ice” and flow into conversation. Before I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  to calculate internal forces and deformations. It's a neat class because I've been able to learn more about the force distributions in ... Chemistry: Some of you might be confused as to why I'm taking this class, and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  , so I figured I might as well take this opportunity to clear up some of ... addition to taking classes, the best way to become part of the nanotechnology movement is to get a UROP at one of the many laboratories conducting nanotech

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  Today I got an email from MIT that directed me to a website which ... that we are not offering you admission to MIT in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. The number of applicants for admission to the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  members of the former convene together to celebrate a 10M concentration of ... Electronics Research Society", though to be honest that name is a bit of a ... diverse and talented group of individuals who use the space to work on any

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  best color in the box. From the ages of 3-10, my life goal was to be quarterback for the Detroit Lions, though I was eventually was forced to give ... they come one right after another. I happen to be a bit of a nerd. I

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  Science and Engineering. According to its website: Climate change is the ... adapting to climate change require an understanding of both the Earth system ... impacts of a changing climate * How to model and analyze complex climate and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  You Are LUSCIOUS I lusciously answer some of your questions

  

  of the mail/website, you can get an idea for the "vibe" of each college ... , etc. - and strive to make each aspect of them representative of some ... website doesn't answer these questions, it hopefully serves as a bridge to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  day has been exciting and full of surprises. I usually get to the office ... discussions about obstacles, as well as to share victories with the rest of team ... as one of our intern gifts! Generally, I’ve been able to bike to work

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  boxes of Chinese food during CPW. Is there a place on campus to get this ... variety of meal options, and especially by the fact that it's possible to ... (instead of trying to appear to be all things to all people just to entice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  such a success, rising above so many other fashion e-commerce websites of ... exposure to develop your own taste, so you may mimic the taste of those ... website spat out two hundred options. None of them were usable, and some

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  timer on a carton of milk and a slab of chicken waiting to be thawed. An ... new restaurants, and to spend extended periods of time in nature. And ... grasp. There was a strange freneticism to the semester, of collapsing a

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  solar astrophysicist at Harvard. The AAS has a whole website on how to ... to present my research at AAS conferences, and membership turns out to provide valuable access to new opportunities. In this case, I realized that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build ... (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  "Mankind has always had a yen to travel. Millions of years ago ... computer talk to you believably. Your version of Windows almost certainly ... is still going on in lots of places about how to make the computers

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  of Sakata Afrique, in a photoshoot to publicize their spring show, "AfroShake" When I first sat down to talk to Emmanuel, that feeling of ... mulled over the problem for a while, keeping an open ear to the projects of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  on writing!) to compare a bunch of genetic sequences. For three hours ... A couple of days ago, I was working on an entry talking about all the ... , well, IAP. Oops. :) So, here's a quick recap of what I've done so far

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

    One of my favorite questions to ask, when talking to ... decided to chronicle my weekend! This will be the first of several "a day in ... would I see, where would i go, etc. I figured that people would want to

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  we managed to collect sixteen of them on our first pass. This was a ... of MIT buildings have floors numbered 1 to 8. Alan: Despite CJ ... , am a big fan of exploring campus. CJ: Anyway, we’re going to start

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021