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• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  doing, but I am doing my best to at least get my head around the music ... running two hours behind, although if the Amtrak schedule is to be believed ... is well, out in the American West; we will just have to see whether I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  [source: IsNateSilverAWitch.com] All of this is a very long-winded way to say that Nate Silver is as close to a rock star as you can get in the ... currently wrestling - is the freedom to work in my underpants. I'm living the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  approved by the hall (or at least not objected to), your door is your own to ... you spend your life. Inspired by my desire to spend more time in the way ... could get painting, so I resolved to paint the tree over spring break

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  some of Boston." Not sure how quickly we're going to get power back ... halls) for the weekly Physics department colloquium. The speaker is a guy ... used, and gradually pick up on vocabulary as you make your way through

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  met this weekend!! :) (this is why I like to ask you where ya'll are from :P one of the best things about CPW is meeting you all who come from ... since then. Holla to the MA, NY, CT, NH, MD, RI, NJ, CA, MI, IL, IN, MO

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by police for getting too close to the ... to sit. I wanted to get to the front. That's better. From here, I ... was busy getting lost in the moment. This is the photo I almost

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  always the best part... how about the milk vending machine in the basement ... due Friday Fill out a form. Get a free bio minor. But do it by Friday ... startups and to la la la la fa la la lee" but really they meant "now we get

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  we do not have enough information. While it is important to file your ... doesn’t reflect your test history, fax your score report to the ... This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  . Essentially, MIT students get the month of January off to do whatever we please ... is slightly extended to interface with the servo on the wall. The ... characters over serial and applies the given command to the motors. It is short

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  freshman to declare course 6. Is it earnest advice? Who knows. Change your ... . Experience the weight of knowledge. Get frustrated at having to ascend or ... , maybe because you don't want to explain that it is not, in fact, the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  Pleasant Gap. The town revolves around Penn State, is surrounded by farms ... stimulating dream. We quickly discovered that trying to squash the bubbles only ... Torborg, also recently found its way to the Colbert Report. Check it out

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Registration – Important! If you're planning to attend CPW, please read this entry whether you've already registered or…

  

  registered for CPW: the deadline is TODAY! Please log into your MyMIT account ... MIT account and confirm that your registration was recorded by the system ... your registration information, you're all set. If the form is blank

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  even when you know that what you see is false. I was so struck by the ... is so difficult to answer is because of the problems I discussed in the ... the judgment is made sufficiently regular to enable predictions from the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  , because ~college is a time to explore~ and the closer I get to my future the ... possible way. List-making is one of my [annotation note="haha get it... top ... computational research project after the other. Which is to say, I know how to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of ... (which is still pass/no record), and to a lesser degree in your second ... by semester two (or once you become a sophomore the regular way), that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  different way, I feel like I have time to write about it. I've been a part of ... opportunity I have to pitch an idea to an organization is an opportunity for me ... for materials, and I want to know what it is like to buy nice yarn. And

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  't promise to get to them soon, but I'll try my best. For reference, I've done ... to talk about more than just The Process. Every college is different ... in the comments we didn't get to answer (watch the webcast for the ones

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  getting a bus to Lechmere from right outside the station. We both have not ... concerned hall members to the kitchen. Small advising meeting is held. Hall ... out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  thesis. also the writing is not very snappy oops the soundtrack to this blog is the album Blue Moon Safari by Air and Vegyn :-) Last fall, I ... answer that you would give, but maybe not the answer you’re supposed to

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

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  story is to let your children play Sonic the Hedgehog 3 if you want them ... 't get much worse... Because he forgot the way out! He ran north, south ... , once again, you can consult Mitra. That is actually always the best

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005