Search

Search Results

• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  question 11a on our application ("what do you do purely for fun?"). Try to ... were released. On the drive home I considered calling someone to check my ... . Happiness is not a place. In the following months I went to CPW, shopped for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MITES, RSI and WTP deadlines approaching Summer programs at MIT for 11th graders.

  

  open exclusively to high school juniors. MITES and RSI are free; WTP is ... Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) is a rigorous six-week residential, academic enrichment summer program for promising high school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  . (Free admission! If you're ever looking for something to do in San Fran ... cars actually latch on to the cables and get pulled along for the ride ... (which is at home, anyway) so I have to rely on Sarah for my gaming fix

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  , Adam and I headed to the Museum of Science -- MIT students get in free ... heat for as long as I was allowed. Needless to say, it was a good ... Columbus Zoo. I managed to make my annual trip to the zoo last summer, but

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  for undergrad. You'll have the chance to succeed wherever you end up. It ... , and possibly others, have questions. Feel free to post your questions as comments on this entry, and I'll answer them. It saves me having to be

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unfold I met my blog muse while doing the laundry, and then came this entry.

  

  in 3 flat to find something to wear for school. Exhibit A: This ... to an ASA activities midway and has scored a free shirt from WMBR ... I'm well on my way to the goal.

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  decided.  Asia’s reason for applying to WISE was simple: “it was free”. We ... to see for herself that there was always something going on at MIT ... doing research mentioned that his son visited schools for free during his

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is ... undeniably call mine. I feel that for a long time I was okay with this because ... have a flag that was truly ours. None of has had clothes to wear on

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  that this may be more challenging for some students due to their ... recommendation from people who can write well on your behalf, or to at least have ... describing any limited capacity should be sufficient. Feel free to link this
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  waking up at 7:30am on weekdays (this is hard for a college student. really ... staring at The Weather Channel for hours on end as a child, and having a ... I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  opened my eyes to all the possibilities and opportunites free for the ... . And they don't just want to meet you--they're looking for people to go and work for them. People are dressing to the nines and lining up around

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIA No More Why I haven't blogged in 23 days.

  

  it too. Here's mine for the week: Andd a second shot, with stuff you ... IAP trip to India - Taking EMS Shifts (I happen not to be on any this ... Homework, which currently includes: (1) Reading for 9.01 (Intro to Neuro

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  skills before coming to MIT, even for computer science majors. For example ... -level computer science and physics, for example, much less access to research labs ... and provide you with instructions on how to track your application on My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  His Wife For a Hat) Rock on, Oliver Sacks. He has this amazing way of ... ) discussed why he majored in physics, and then went on to medical school and ... finding a subject interesting, and actually wanting to do it; research, for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  ’s possible to do so on a college student budget. But what if you’re pursuing a ... languages again. After that experience, I decided to try to go abroad for the ... vary widely based on the country in question. For instance, Italy is

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  to come), the freshmen Logs put on a skit for the audience that they ... be performing for free! And they've asked me, more or less, to let you ... on the congratulations bandwagon here (a vehicle that goes from 0 to 60

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• 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 ... , and their soldering irons to strum their guitars; beat on their drums ... student center to battle it out for a shot at glory! So how much would you

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

  Admitted Students Update Class of 2012 guestbook and an update on The Tubes.

  

  . Watch your mailbox! Finally, feel free to use this entry's fresh comments space for more admitted students chatting. ... As of yesterday, all 522 admitted students can log into MyMIT for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  simulations on an MIT-inspired neural network (i.e. after thinking about it for ... passion for architecture and civil engineering to prevent such tragedies ... Simmons dorm room, which transitions to a car chase on the Harvard bridge

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  students will have taken an idea from nothing more than a sketch on paper to ... specifications for fruit... or break things apart to learn. Despite the fact ... bump on a force pad to unlock the gate. Pappalardo has essentially

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014