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• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  very close ended to the very open ended: before my time, in the days of ... questions which are going to a) elicit the most informative, enlightening ... old applications, which got me down to the Institute Archives, looking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  fill out a profile and check-in to the event before we could spin the ... dedicated to the people who had the most number of points, as well as the most ... since we haven't gone to any of Harvard's sports events in the first place

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  , alerts me that my microphone is off. This is the MIT I’ve come to. When I ... Arizona rivers, there is actual water. In Cambridge the heat doesn’t trap ... mischief every time I jump on at 9:05 am. Fix my home-cut bangs in the video

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  MIT World. Keyser is also the author of a brilliant essay in Nightwork ... encouraged to pay very close attention to the notion that perhaps the book in ... of the interdisciplinary nature of MIT. In 2005 MIT Professor Emeritus

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  , and three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on ... think Greg House is one of the best characters in the history of ... So here's the story. Each year I allow myself to faithfully follow

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  -100 in a quest to solve one of the greatest conundrums of our time: latke ... , the hundreds of people in attendance were permitted to vote on the ... answer to the question from the teaser text is no, no it cannot. But maybe

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  'm only doing all of these things in the first place is because i care about ... to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while now, and it's traditional for people in my living group, floorpi, to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  ) pressure to make the most out of that last summer before college. To explore ... ’ve spent the past fourteen days traveling back in time to the blissful years ... incredibly lucky to have my aunt with me at the time. Her instincts kicked in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  social innovation. We have to innovate, engineering the ways in which we ... involved. In the great tradition of MIT, our undergraduates want to pioneer ... prepared down to the wire. 20 minutes before the meeting, we sat in Next

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  of the biggest events I'm looking forward to is JULY FOURTH! Boston is ... cues given throughout the show is over 2,500. - The required time to load ... eight days. For the "live" portion the load-in is four days. - The total

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  something to that effect. Some students in the lab have fallen asleep at ... ). The idea is not to play hero and to attack a mugger with a gun who would ... 've been TAing this IAP) is tomorrow evening, and I am excited. The teams

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  're getting dressed in the winter. Layering is key, but you don't want to over ... flops are my shoeware of choice, even I have to give in at some point and start wearing shoes and socks. To get ready for the winter, this week the

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  6.046, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, is one of the most ... ? 6.046 is the kind of class that teaches you how to use this broken ... lot of the material covered in 6.046 is dense, very fast-paced, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  in lab during the last month than I did in my own room... which is a little depressing. But in the end it was all worth it. I got to work with ... show! One of the most amazing parts of 2.009 is the final presentation

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  about my UROP. By the time I finished, I decided to not post them. As is ... from Kellen. I don't know why I felt the needed to copy and paste it in ... .091 Part II This is, again, something I typed to memorize on the way to a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  location. Said item is now free game and the first person to get to it gets ... to tell everybody in the floor lounge while we ate our Chinese food. I ... , but also how they'd built it in the hallway and nobody had been able to

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  installing solar panels on the dome in order to conserve energy while the T ... derailed the T and smashed it into the dome in order to destroy its newly ... ? Also, all the captions to all the pictures of it showing up online and in

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  Eric Lander is the role model. He “played a pioneering role in all ... in cancer research most widely known for his discoveries of the first ... a couple students to wipe the giant blackboard in 26-100, our lecture

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  >?  I just have no idea - there's to much exciting and wonderful in the ... undergrads who would love the opportunity to do research and learn about their ... all the magic in-between dealing with proposals, funding, and listings

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  understood that I learned how to answer them at some point in the past but my ... wanted to sleep. The only other time I remember feeling this tired was in ... extended essay in order to get the IB diploma. I remember thinking (as many

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018