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• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  and another school. The funny thing is I can’t seem to recall much from ... parents try to feed me coconuts, but this is of questionable veracity. My family then relocated to Carmel, Indiana, a city just north of Indianapolis

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  My roommates and I haven’t had an outing for a while, so we went to ... since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth grade, it was a fresh experience that I really needed. I remember seeing the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  observes that the proof contains all the key facts needed to actually prove ... my approach to MIT (more on that later), I've finally figured out my ... . Actually, I didn't expect it to be this great at all. Even though I loved

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first ... celebration to a puzzling punctuation in the calendar. Hmm! I say to the mirror

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  Hello world! I have returned from the -- well, to be honest, I never ... I don't usually see students on a day-to-day basis.) Anyway, I've made my triumphant - but temporary - return to the blogs because 1

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  year, Chris Peterson summoned me back from my alumna grave to apply my treasury of comedic novelty photoshoot experience to pieing the bloggers in ... the tense scene. In slow motion, Tim waddles over to a table full of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  be different - but I didn't expect everything to be so weird.  It made me miss my own CPW so much, but so grateful of the opportunities and ... the weekend to have such a terrible end to it - see Anna H. '14's post

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  up to near 50/50 like startup-school Olin College has, but I'm afraid ... ." Melissa's concerns are reasonable. According to statistics from the Society ... in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  think it was edited from a two-hour movie down to the point where it was ... want to get you in, have some explosions, show Hugh Jackman half ... 're talking about when they have to discuss the monoclonal antibody against

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  It is 2:30 and I already stained my neurons and nail-polished them to ... postal worker. To those of you, I bring item #6 from the yellow To-Do Post-It stuck to my computer screen: Deep breaths. (Items #1-5 are probably less

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the nomenclature of a certain telecaster's forum. Now I don't care much for that ... things that I like. First, the word "factor," which is something I like to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  reluctant to get the flu shot, because needles and injections terrify me, you know? I hated going to the doctor to get vaccines. I know they’re good for me, sure. I know how necessary they are. But I was really scared to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  with Writing to form CMS/W, which includes the Science Writing program ... . According to CMS/W: The curriculum in science writing is designed to enable the student to develop mastery of the craft and rhetoric of writing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  's really good and you should go read it. If you want to learn more about what went into the making of an article like this, and what it's like to do a ... gremlin brain was endlessly fascinated by it. I dragged my family to see the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  , maybe this is still just projection) is Korra's need to learn how to ... , jokingly referring this period as my "nice era" to my friends. In this new ... caused it or who to thank, because God, I really do want to thank the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  set and are MAD expensive. I also need to confirm that getting a ... one, except jump really high. My family used to have one in our backyard ... (which was only supposed to have like 2 kids at a time but we put around 8

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  before midnight with one of my friends encouraging me to get pumped about ... developments, I will soon gain access to the front of my cerebral cortex, where ... velvet pillow. The trio proceeded to crown me as tsar. The witnesses

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  , cutting the time needed for future research from several years to less than ... applicants and students are quite a talented bunch. As such, I try to look out ... wanted to share it with you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  it nearly impossible for me to type anything at all ever. Getting ... just took me two minutes to type those sentences. WHY WHY WHY did it have to be those two keys? Couldn't it have been something trivial, like F12

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  -wannabes were), I need to get my 8 units the old-fashioned way: PE classes. (I was going to make a joke about how "IM sports" aren't sports you play ... PE golf right up until May so she would be able to graduate in June

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005