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• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  problems at all. As it came around the final turn to approach the finish line ... :30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  concurrent viewership started to blow up to the 400,000+ range."]it blew up ... some of these panels. Coming in to the weekend I knew it was going to be ... I told her how much it meant to me to see women in the gaming space. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Introduction To MIT World ...and my blog's first feature: Akamai, Clever and Cool!

  

  . With a collection of almost 400 videos, it's a little daunting to pick ... it best to start with a modern day adventure story about a company that ... My first blog entry! Let me begin by introducing you to MIT World, a

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar event ... more anxious pre-frosh two years ago, so I figured it might be helpful to ... jacket. Looks like CPW is going to be chilly and occasionally rainy (see

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  beautiful than it already is.    So, taking all this, I’ve started to ... to remember that life is not absolute. It’s dynamic. It’s beautiful. It’s ... lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  .687.9184 Fax is the most reliable way to get us a document. It is automagically ... documents to this Wednesday, February 1st, at 5 PM ET. This is a mighty good time to login to MyMIT and make sure everything is in! To recap, you may

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  just do not like (hint: deflategate) it is just much safer to lie. My ... It was so exciting to be able to welcome the 1000+ adMITed students ... this is the best time to tell you about some of  the things I first

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  this blog explaining why WISE is amazing.      Applying to WISE ... decided.  Asia’s reason for applying to WISE was simple: “it was free”. We ... apply to. But she wasn’t genuinely considering it. “I didn’t think I’d get

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  acknowledging that it is possible for anything to hurt you enough to make you cry ... always have. It’s strange to feel as though some version of yourself is ... satisfaction of acquiring knowledge, and the opportunity to use it. It is

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  to happen today because classes start on Monday which is, believe it or ... timeline is a little hard to explain just because sooooo much happened, but I ... almost-equally-clueless college students, and we needed to figure it out

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  from home -- but for now, MIT, it is so nice to meet you. Let's be good ... this year, so I know it’s a bit eager to be starting to write already ... laundry to clean it out.) I've been reading the blogs since elementary

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  left home for college.  I used to measure his height through its ... outcome? How can we even compare outcomes, like, would it be better to be in ... consultant? And who is to say that her interests didn’t bend into a different

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  times, it takes years to understand what MIT truly is. The same goes for ... butter to any meal qualifies it as a meal of substance. Sure, it might not ... what one believes to be true is the key to understanding at all. So, in

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  what I expected, but it's so hard to tell how much of that is due to this ... the strength to fill it, so all I can do is try to block it out. Like ... Note to anyone who is confused: Cruel Summer is a Taylor Swift song

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  until i can listen to it. in practice, no news is urgent enough that i have to listen to it as soon as possible. after all, ignorance is how i ... control required to ignore something is hard. i know i find it hard. so i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / CPW

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

  

  "]CPW[/annotation] 2020, except it isn’t. It’s the first day of CP*, a virtual answer to ... got the rare shot, I blew it. Talking to people virtually made sense to ... cool to people”, but I could never go through with it. Pictures and

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  of the bracket and unanimously lost to it. Sorry, Julie Andrews fans ... whole do-mi-mi, mi-so-so business starts to lose a little of its charm. In the end, it came down to A Mighty Wind and Hebrew Hammer, with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  My ML model finished training right after I finished this post technically i *am* doing work right now

  

  code to run on my computer for my UROP project this summer, which is ... [/caption]     This is what it's actually been like for the most part.   ... Junior year was a milestone for me because it was the first time

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  does it work? Don't I have to let other colleges know by May 1? Is it ... will MIT take from the waitlist? Is it true that you haven't taken any ... admitted students. While it is true that we haven't taken anyone from the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It ... sing This is true--it's not a lore! Oh MIT. You offer us experience ... thanks to Lourdes '15 [who filmed it] Kirsten [my TA] and of course the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012