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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  I hear Early Action decisions went out. Congrats to those of you who ... you who get in will get to come to CPW. And some of you might have ... 'll get to experience a small slice of life at MIT to help make your

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  for free like I always do. When I first came to MIT I was terrified of ... ticketed several hundreds of dollars. It happened to a friend of ours. Once ... .   Ahead on the left is the Media Lab. The arch just to the right of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  bunch of nature writing from Thoreau to Walt Whitman, as well as more ... middle of a pandemic, I had a front row seat to see a late April ... slightly adjacent. But to be fair to my younger self, I come from a town of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Name in Flashing Lights Or maybe just mitadmissions.org

  

  minutes of fame? Well here's your chance to be a blogger. Last year, I piloted an effort to capture CPW through the eyes of a prefrosh, and this ... 'd love to share as many of your stories as possible because you

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  average of 3 short essays ...not to mention other random essays for ... article useful to all of you as you embark on college apps/scholarship apps ... ://www.uni.edu/~gotera/gradapp/stmtpurpose.htm) How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose Vince Gotera English Language

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  them (I shoot tomorrow) so I got to take a bunch of pictures! They use ... your missed shot for the rest of the match. Incentive to hit the center ... is when I was able to shoot. I shot in the first air pistol round of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... unceremoniously late. I would like to posit that half the notoriety of Unified stems ... of the time, and proceeding to sit down for a whole two hours and

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  ; instead of getting a band or two to perform, we hire a dozen bands to play ... considerable number of alums bring their families to pit lighting and the feast ... Feast, and at one point on Saturday morning I managed to fill all of the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heck yeah, democracy. PSET Extension!!

  

  the Beta submission of problem set 2 to Sunday 11:59 PM. Armando and ... statement. I've spent an average of 6 hours each day (read: ~ 8 pm - 2 am) for the past 4 days working on 6.005. Our assignment is to create a Sudoku

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  door button was right next to a lot of other important buttons on my i ... Almost a year ago, I met a kid who tried to convince me to come back to his room with him to see his hydraulic door. To this day he insists

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  to put all of this into some sort of algorithm or formula to determine ... thread to write new formulas and solve the puzzle from a variety of ... of you haven't received your packages yet. Please don't worry - they

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  impossible. So now, I get to start of my days writing in bed as opposed to ... closing of the door, the camera cuts away to a peaceful Next House Dining ... East (a wing of Next House) to 3West (another wing of Next House). Less

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  to the front of the stage when it was my time to start singing and did ... moving on to the next song when one of the music directors of [annotation ... years, dozens of students representing MIT's nine acapella groups will

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  copious amounts of time to my drawing/sculpting/architecture classes and ... certain of my path and purpose. 2. Apply early. There are only benefits to ... deadline, I encourage you to spend a lot of introspective time. This doesn

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  using parts of our class discussion as research for a follow-up to his ... Description: Studies important examples of the literary form that, between the beginning of the 18th century and the end of the 19th century, became an

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Listen to “MIT Is…” with Cynthia F. ‘18 on the MIT Trashion Show, escaping the MIT bubble, and UROPing at the Media Lab

  

  around the idea of an audio thing for awhile, and decided to give it a shot. One of the people we'd been kicking it around with is Kellen Manning ... guestblogger. Kellen works with MIT students to run the @MITStudents accounts on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  started at the very end of fall semester. MIG welding was a pre-requisite to ... is bad). So I came in to D-Lab and did a lot of practice welds, and ... a bead of metal to the contact tip, which means the wire can't feed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  of 46 meters, and yes, waiting to see if the rain will stop so I can ... of the above activities appeal to you, you can always, at the very ... in the rain! Go to bed early! Read an entire shelf of books! Take up

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  . I asked Kevin to share some of his thoughts on his MIT journey: how it ... first met while judging Battle of the Bands at CPW 2010. Today, at 3:54 PM ET, the kickstarter for Ministry of Supply, the business apparel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  expectancy. I'm out of college myself, but people I went to school with are ... side of life. Being both an old person and a young person, it stands to ... to think about these things ahead of time. Most of the most important

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011