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• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  in person. I’ve been looking forward to being a Blogger at the “Meet ... out to someone through the void of the internet. I wanted to be a part ... MIT, I would never make friends, and I would never be a blogger, because

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  hanging around the courtyard will be happy to show you around or answer your ... all the events that we’re offering this year. Things that will be ... looks like / what it will look like so it’ll be a surprise :) but if you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  video, which I hope captures a bit of what it was like to actually be ... residents could be shut out of the place they live and, in my mother's case ... could not be more proud, and I am certain that you join me in thanking

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  resistivity when pressure is applied to them, our hope is to be able to use that ... under strain in real-life structures. It would be really useful to know if ... ! Congrats on recently declaring your major, and on no longer being a freshman

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  interest in design: “His Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time ... his father's college workshop.  To be able to make whatever I dreamed up ... course. But just being aware of the perils of group work made a large

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

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

  

  blogs, but I knew that if I got into MIT I would be happy, and I knew that if I got into MIT I would be the person I wanted to be. That’s not true ... desperately I wanted to be here. This is MIT, and I am here. I taste the words

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  myself: I'm being really ambitious about all the writing I have to do ... classes. Two (9.12 and 24.900) are officially known to be communication ... classes a graduation requirement; that way, instead of just being good at

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  . Every five minutes, there would be 1.2 million deaths in the simulation ... more money and thus fewer people would be saved. Meanwhile, the ... million, which had to be split between the shelter and evacuation team, so

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  be the presidents of clubs, play sports, and sleep. Everyone hits the ... at MIT. I was told prior to arriving at MIT that it was going to be ... .001 (Mechanics and Materials I) because I wanted to be able to design a small

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  , burdened as they may be by a brobdingnagian backpack. See, sometimes, what ... travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of ... any more. Many exams will be scheduled close together, sometimes on the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  correlation to being able to read music and doing well in math. On the music ... the greatest things about being at MIT. We learn a lot about how to use ... decimal, allowing us to be able to distinguish an intro class from a higher

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  , our very own blogger Hamsika :) Being the amazing person she is, Hamsika ... into my CPW experience - boy, was it an experience!! Being the eager ... :25 to be exact. Nonetheless, lady luck was NOT on my side Thursday morning

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  While bloggers Jess, Paul, and Snively will be listening to President ... fewer solar cells for the same energy output. They can be mounted on ... blowing and power is needed; and can also be used for mooring a floating

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  *snively will be mad I beat him at posting this* *not anymore, curse ... Mattress Dominoes turn into "Oh Noes!"? Luckily the trend appears to be that ... past weekend, Snively and I were invited to be a part of a start

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  blog will have to be the outlet of my ramblings till then =p Just like ... introduction to each dorm) today and will be sent out with the May Next Big ... recent "bloggets" - this is going to be a super short blog. I have a lot

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  's drinking song is being proudly sung by a pack of ever so slightly inebriated ... . Structurally, Cambridge and MIT couldn't be more different. Learning is divided ... examiners, who are an anonymous group who set the questions to be examined at

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  Hi Everyone! It's been quite a while since I last blogged. MIT can be ... degrees and got a whole lot of planning experience being the operations ... around in his daddy's shoes pretending to be a grown up. Now I feel like I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  credits will be appended onto your transcript. Moreover, you need to meet ... your first year at MIT, or you'll be considered to be in "non ... would be taken by MIT for credit), you will get 12 units for 18

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  white foam appears anyway. I'd be willing to bet that the type of water ... 't be the whole story. Of course, Dan is completely right when he says ... - that's what's being reflected back to your eye. If something is white

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  Over the last year, I've had the pleasure of being the Undergraduate ... my feelings on where we are and where we need to be going, and why things are not as they should be in the UA. I've thought a lot about this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006