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• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  . I think part of the time spent at MIT is about finding things you love ... that I met at CPW or near the beginning of freshman year, but I also have ... what’s in store for you at the institute (out of many other tastes that

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  ." For example, computers can analyze thousands of samples at a time, he ... used to that. I'm used to being one of the smartest students, but at MIT ... beach at night and looking at the stars.' [Cydney Scott / The Post] Corey

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  of my biggest reasons for choosing MIT. But back to the scene at hand ... great picture of it at the end of her post here. Unfortunately, the ... (since last year.) All of the furniture has been moved to the edges of the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  , medication, and race, but at the end of the day, in the real world and in the ... irreverent take on them. The level of action was a bit overwhelming for me at ... interesting and at times painful account of how difficult it can be to conceive

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  winnings of 500%, I will never gamble again in my life. Anyway, I was at ... a full account of my activities at home later on, or maybe not. Anyway ... very nearly attained twenty (oh dear!) years of age, I had not yet

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  ’ve taken at MIT have had at most 20 pages of writing, and those were for ... courses. If you do the math, that’s at least one per semester of the ... pigeons to stuff into those boxes (i.e. friends), then at least two of those

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  Tuesday, we put a grant proposal together in the span of about two hours at ... “related shenanigans occurring in my wing of Next House at the time”? Well ... cookie content, not pedantic deliberation on the origins of particular

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  particular. At the beginning of every summer, I feel a particular flash of ... Learned I think it's easy to look at these trackers from all of these ... management, once you get over the small hump of activation energy to actually

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  week ago, one of the admins on the MIT Class of 2017 Facebook page asked ... do one at the time, since I was dangling off a cliff in Utah and had limited Internet access: (trust me, the lack of reliable wifi was by far

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  , who is one of the most amazing singers I have ever come across.) At 8 ... of strangers with music. I was totally mortified, at first, but as ... : namely, taking advantage of every resource at hand. In the meantime, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  's opinions on the types of people at MIT - I know there are a lot of different ... concerns, at least as I saw them back in the spring of 1996: Will I have a ... discovered that there are all kinds of people at MIT, even those that you would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  . I spent most of my CPW at East Campus, because I was convinced I would ... chocolate at La Verde’s on the last day of CPW. I encourage you to do the same ... . Coincidentally, 17 also happens to be the number of prefrosh living at Random for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  reacts) The only bright side I can think of right now is that at least I ... 't looking great for Washlava at this point. vii. Examination of compound scores Next I wanted to get more granular and look at the distribution of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  ? the you is directed at certain people in my life and instead of writing ... eating at me for a couple of days now and what better to rid yourself of ... were going to be my maid of honor at my wedding, i thought we'd go on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  , at least superficially, that what I was doing was kind of insane ... . Not out of writers’ block--I truly always want to write, but mostly ... energy, and the rest of the things that come easily are mostly Internet

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  -picture view would be difficult. Luckily, that sort of thing is easy at MIT. I ... admissions site at the end of the Fall '05 semester, and learned about some ... . Even at that early stage, I could really tell he had all of his ducks in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  me at least, to think about the idea of this being a part of some story ... the end of the semester (or at least the end of some arc I can’t see yet ... year of settling into whatever “role” I play at MIT. For instance, since

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  out of the stud at 6am after pulling an all nighter during finals week ... supervisor a quick email: At exactly 9am the first day of Week 4, I dashed ... the skin of my teeth and sent my supervisor the final changes at 3:53pm

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  surgeon, but also good at all of these things too: she’s basically the ... After four years here at MIT, I am finally graduating. I have a lot of mixed feelings on graduating. On one hand, I'm nervous. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  , so so so many blog posts that talk about the tradition of the MIT brass rat, the ring design and what happens at ring delivery, I'm going to skip past that. As surreal as it feels, I've finished half of my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019