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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  got to the point where CPW just wasn't as much fun as it would be with ... lot better once you have gotten sleep and you will be able to enjoy the ... we are here if you need us, but do not feel pressured at all to spend

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  textbook. You won’t regret it. But what does this have to do with Linked ... need to go tour Europe for two weeks before semester begins again. ... deadlines that I never had time to appreciate and absorb the material. Some of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  how it grows and can't wait to see what Infinite does next! for more ... Infinite is a student-run magazine and group dedicated to the ... , it has released an issue once per semester with full-page spreads on a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  prospectives on here might be curious to see what problems on problem sets are ... according to b) C-C connectivity and c) C-H connectivity (Y = methyl, E ... you would for –Me.) c) Use these values to make a graph of potential

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  'll transfer you to her voicemail. Me: Okay, thank you! I left a message, and am ... to present my research at AAS conferences, and membership turns out to provide valuable access to new opportunities. In this case, I realized that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  Hey all, sorry to be absent for... what has it been by now... three weeks? That's inexcusable for a freshman blogger! So I will have to make it up by posting much MORE often... it looks like some order might be

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  shown above picked the right one, so I didn't need to think long about non ... 've learned that groceries actually have to be purchased once in a while. With ... To be honest, my weekend mornings are probably less exciting than

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  involved in things that you love or interest you, because you need to be ... officer, I think that I would have had fun trying to be a journalist. I like to think of myself as someone who asks the tough questions and is not

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three months. As this week comes to a close, so does MIT's week of finals. This ... . But there are only 168 hours in a week, and I also need to eat and sleep

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  to learn about and it feels very much like not-school :P (Definitely does harken back to my science bowl days where I memorized so much random ... to new scenarios — to create. On the other hand, trivia is much more

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  interested in helping us distribute them but needed to call around for us ... going to DINEPA, or Direction Nationale de l’Eau Potable et de l ... ; unfortunately, he didn't have too much of the information we wanted, since we

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  enjoyed it enough to do it well without too much effort. I wanted, like everyone at MIT does (according to the fantastic pressure survey in the Tech ... . When the sun is out, I'm out. When I need to sleep, I do. A third policy

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

  Financial Aid Tracking + Evie Pix Some quick updates.

  

  are amazing and are giving the admissions crew some much-needed cheer ... Hi folks, First I just wanted to give mad props to the kind folks who ... : A new enhanced portlet will be launching in the next week to 10 days

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  friends and family are much, much more important to me than grades or money ... ’t need an MIT education to start doing amazing, world-changing things ... report back to base. Clouds covered the world thousands of miles below

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  neuroscientist (or your parents) will tell you, your brain does need sleep in order ... , and they also need weekends, if not only to catch up on sleep. No matter ... This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  course at MIT, and I need no further proof than to note that the class was ... Mechanical Engineering course 2.009: Product Engineering Processes took to Killian Court (the big grassy quad by the Great Dome) to fire birds at pigs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  for serious business and once to meet with my high school classmates in ... sweat* I know you are counting down (consciously or unconsciously) to the hour of the decision release. Many of you will be glued to your computer

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  timeline is a little hard to explain just because sooooo much happened, but I ... that even though I loved my family, I needed to be with East Campus folk ... almost-equally-clueless college students, and we needed to figure it out

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  mealtime jaunts, it's difficult to find much free time to speak of. This ... ? Yes, but you need to be disciplined and devoted to making it work. I ... (Hey, I never finished those entries from the summer, so I have to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  snickers, like "why does a chemical engineer want to be an actor, too?" But ... important items that engineers should add to their personal wish list. Now it's time to blog about something I feel particularly passionate about: public

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012