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• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  Hey prefrosh! Welcome to campus! If you're not here yet, hurry up ... you aren't sure what to do yet with your CPW, here are some tips from my ... this cool one MIT student and get to know them and blah blah blah

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  going to keep typing Shyam's name because I want him to Google himself one ... get a piece of e-mail that's accidentally been replied-to-all, I say to ... to give them 19 years on the chain gang just for adding another letter

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  're looking to take care of everything from your Google search results to your ... student, you sort of get used to being one of the youngest. Everyone else is ... changed when I went to Next Gen Summit. I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  head:  how to help prospective students (and their parents) more ... Courseroad and Firehose have added so much value to current students ... to dormspam:  Hello, fellow kids --   As you may

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  " button to blogs so that they could be easily shared via Facebook. As I said ... bottom of every blog entry. By clicking this link, you may choose to publish the article to the News Feed of your five thousand closest Friends

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  A huge perk to living at MIT is living right across the river from ... wasn't new to me, I'd seen it in an episode of CSI: Miami, but there was ... an e-mail informing me that there was to be another flash mob, this

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  . From the website: In 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, [150] students work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build ... prototype. The large teams must work effectively to realize this task, so

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

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7:15PM ET!

  

  . From the website: In 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, [150] students work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build ... prototype. The large teams must work effectively to realize this task, so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  Development, the program provides scholarships of $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 to ... , Philosophy or "Outside the Box." To apply, you must submit the Preliminary ... needed for future research from several years to less than a week. Jamie

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  Last Sunday may not have been my first time coming back to MIT, but I ... same energy. The streets were full of fraternity vans trying to snag new ... mayhem that is Registration Week was the perfect introduction to my Junior

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day. Hackers deploying any hack always subscribe to a strict code of ethics. This ... saying when it will be returned. # Brute force is the last resort of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pervnert This entry is not suitable for children under 7 or finite-volume, compressible vapors.

  

  . Don't forget, Mitra! I solemnly swear to starr writing entries MIT again ... this film, like two sphinxes solemnly intoning "intermolecular forces ... trenchcoat. All motion in the room seemed to freeze as the shadowy character

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... , mentor, and (now) admissions liaison since 2002. Before I came to MIT, I ... United States and the former head of Google[x]. It's been called MIT's most

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  it's a cloudy Tuesday morning and i'm walking to Caffe Nero to get a ... my house in Central, and the latte is conveniently free thanks to a voucher sent to me by an upperclassmen. as i walk, a thought pops into my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  education to the public through longstanding institutions like OCW and MITx, Course 7 has decided to livestream all lectures to the general public. From the website (biographical links added by me): In Fall 2020, all MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  for its signal of the year coming to an end and the promise of the new one to begin. I prefer the days right after the holidays, taking ornaments off the tree to pack them away while drinking cocoa and listening to

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  If you are an international student who is coming to MIT this fall, congratulations! You have a lot to be proud about. From experience, I can say that right now, you have a lot to be worried about too. Here is a non

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to ... A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo ... on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  at Microsoft and got to work with Minecraft. I learned some cool things ... micro-internship applications opened up in September 2021, so I decided to apply to several places, including Microsoft. To be honest, I was pretty

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  At this point, the admission website must appear to be "all about CPW, all the time" and to a large extent our office is that way too. We're getting ready to welcome the prefrosh and their parents to four days of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010