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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  the undependable nature of our printer to announcements for parties to ... Considering the lack of inactivity on these blogs in the past week or so, I think I speak for us all when I say it was “one of those weeks

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  me by and, apparently, get into MIT. But it's this very method of ... . Simultaneously, this frustrates me because I like to think of myself as hard worker ... more of the former. There's a desperate part of me that wants to drop

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  my next class?" The number of "yes" answers to that question divided by the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1 ... -pee of 0.4375. Yikes. Last semester, my favorite time to blog was between

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  . Prior to the visit, I was terrified of taking Biology at MIT. After CPW ... ) are so important—they’re designed to give you a glimpse of what life ... . I knew that I wanted to be part of the MIT community after CPW

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  on campus too! Just the general gestalt of the place is very cool--down-to ... things about Boston: Boston's nice, but to be honest I spend most of my ... of a small town--one of the best places to live on this planet, really

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  had to work, I walked to and from school most days. I kind of cry a tear ... . Others wanted to go where most of their friends were going. I and a handful of other people just wanted to see what was beyond state lines and

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  pictures of students' bento. The boxes pictured were delivered to students ... 'm definitely learning a lot. Here's the schedule of meetings we've held/plan to ... and used Google Maps to go on a 'virtual scavenger hunt' around those

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  at you. Pursuing the simple ideal of being a good student forced me to ... . It’s already exposed me to a lot, some of which doesn’t even have to do ... get from talking to them when you know, without either of you actually

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  , they're the other half of the fourth floor -- this video just happens to ... flavor of nerdiness.  If you choose to climb up all three and a half ... enough to contribute a mural of my own, and then it doesn’t happen and I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  one of the students that matriculated before coming to CPW; so I came to ... tour. Enter Kavita from Florida. The three of us decided to go to New ... pictures, so I guess I'll start to "show, not tell." (Pwahaha. How many of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  Class of 2010, here's one more... Central grad's MIT future a family ... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, and announced she wanted to go there. Only she didn't - she couldn't. Her family, which had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  , because you get to see where all the creative energy of the student body ... MIT—an intensive entrepreneurship workshop that runs over IAP, open to any member of ... company looks like, and were introduced to many of the monetary and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  with it and used it to make a lot of silly games and procedurally ... also learned to adapt my teaching style rapidly to a lot of different types of students. Some students struggled more than others, and I had to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  , this conference is dedicated to the study of human vision—figuring out ... Bylinskii, helped organize. Speakers talked about methods to approximate where ... electric eel and the tentacled snake. I was there to present a poster of the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already, yikes!) I went to an all-girls Catholic high school in the south side of ... fish, we also got to go to the Boston Aquarium as part of the orientation

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  uncluttered to touch. That's how I feel about the new MIT admissions website. I ... -easy to upload. You know what this means? Photos of kitties! This is ... post. Unfortunately, he beat me to it. He got a pretty good picture of me

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  . However, our awesome Next House wing reps Gabe '11 and Sam '09 forced me to ... of the week. On Wednesday, all BoC hosts showed up to help Ben. The ... of Quantum of Solace, the new James Bond movie. I got back to my room

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  first week of orientation, you get to go around and visit all the dorms ... , most dorms do some sort of in-house rush to decide what floor, house, or area of the dorm you'd like to live in. After that, certain floors, like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  and exciting. Most are beautiful if you stop to look.     Moths of ... was nothing to lose in trying. Lesson 1. Google is awesome. I searched ... time to photograph them! And they are all moving at once in a blur of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  I like to pack light. Maybe it's some combination of old hiking ... 't mean you have to lose the advantages of new technology, though.  Most ... .  Instead of having to ship my laptop off to some Dell warehouse in Texas, I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013