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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  permission. *Should the winner be unable to come to CPW, an alternative prize will be arranged. Cryptic Hint With Bad Wordplay: The frosting does not mix with apples, nor is it the color that it appears to be.

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  show how important being on the same page would be for our team. Not ... opportunity (which turned out to be somewhere in the middle of broad and ... product like this would not be viable. Our answer to this killer question

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  seminar will be required to actively participate in class discussion and to ... . Concepts applied to simple computing circuits in the behaving animal. M. Fee ... experiences of characters in "Sex and the City" are generalizable to people of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be ... laundry, and have a place to sleep. You'll actually be living here and will ... liveblog I intended it to be, but I'll throw up the first location on my

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  watching South Park I thought to myself "Why am I not skydiving?  What ... redundancy built in to the skydiving gear you wear.  Not only is there a ... comments, I'd be more than happy to answer them.  If you're here over the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  'm so not explaining quantum mechanics to you." I've been toying with the ... mit is as a prefrosh, to a rising sophomore whose gone through all the ... it. I guess now is as good a time as any to ponder the intricacies of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  into the CPW live chat already know, your hosts will be contacting you ... already knew, but for many of you, that won't be the case. It's not a bad ... be :) If you've checked out the CPW website, you will have noticed a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  to ensure that you will never fail because you spent too much time on a ... failed to reach the intended destination, i.e., the correct answer.) 4. I ... Comp. Sci.,” etc. Math tends to be the all-purpose flour in MIT

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  is rising, the semester's winding up. I'm trying to wind down (not that ... not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my ... to my roommate, "It's so... gray!" She's from the northwest corner of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  at 9:30 but the rest of us, uh, did not"]11am,[/annotation] we set to ... to be internal. We scraped together all the information we could find ... devoted myself to the project without worrying about other work I could be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  think one of the most important things at MIT is not learning to be ... busy. I didn't use to think I was the kind of person who liked being ... will take more than one day to do it. However, that's not to say I don

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  disregard it. Similarly, the ON/OFF switch will not clearly be labelled as ... considered ourselves to be a powerful culture. dear frosh: here are the things ... say no to things too. Why selection bias is the most powerful force in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  of other people around the world, and Be comfortable with, or willing ... tell compelling stories that will keep people coming back to the blog ... -Answer (250 words or less each) Describe why you want to be an admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  the same. and the yearning to be in-place will forever stay. i will ... , what to expect of it, how i was failing at expecting and on the other ... incredibly hard to leave MIT, if not the first year, then the second. it is a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... , I thought I knew how to handle life. In fact, I had a clear vision in mind of what I wanted to do. I expected to learn more about the field I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  , endless categories, and I want to fill them all with my insights on The MIT ... most versatile words in the MIT vernacular, if not in the recorded ... went on during IAP." noun -- the location of one's UROP "I'm on my way to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  will be held against us in the admissions process." Not at all. Many ... will explain my activities at the centre without me having to write about ... is read by multiple people, it goes to committee where it will be seen

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• FAQ / Transfer

  How do I apply as a veteran?

  ), committed to supporting the academic, financial, and personal goals of ... -achieving academic high school student before entering the service and have not ... are not eligible for first-year admission and should apply to MIT for
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  that is not the case for everyone), so we didn’t feel any pressure to ... us they really wanted us to be home for the [annotation note="Our parents, not having grown up in the US nor gone to college, don’t fully

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  much or as little of the $10 to the other student, whom he does not see ... price on anything. Heh. That proved to be the perfect segue into our gift ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007