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• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  . Anyhow, I just wanted to point out and celebrate the 5th Leap Day in my ... .01 (economics) pset. (ever want to know what a study room looks like at four in ... . So, every 4 years (or, in the case of years that satisfy yr# mod 100

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  figured I'd blog about how and why we did it. The Idea According to my inbox ... students their decision letters in tubes, a practice that dates back to when ...  Elizabeth Choe and current sophomore Loren Sherman to figure out how to do it. At

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  -year varsity starter in the outfield for the Warriors, applied to the MIT with ... still able to achieve what he's capable of in the classroom." Fannin is a ... strong and supportive community life. Read on... Stepping up to bat in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  , haha) could have been used to describe me. Thanks to one of my friends, Christina '10 - an MIT alum and a fellow Camp Kesem (more on Camp Kesem in an entry coming soon!) counselor - I've had a chance to spend a little more

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  beginning to punt in spectacular fashion), it was really refreshing to get a ... was less refreshing to do all this in one month, but so it goes. Here ... prove that you actually know how to do chemical engineering before you go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  can't get into an FPOP, what can I get into an MIT?” I figured DEW was worth trying anyway: best to get comfortable on campus before the ... Boston activity I've done in college. Sure, I go to Faneuil Hall, but only

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  problems in the first chapter, and i thought to myself "i can't solve that ... growing as a person at mit: that problem you had no clue how to do suddenly is in your problem set, that topic you tried to independent study but

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  with free food you want to go to in your CPW booklet. A sleeping bag, and a willingness to sleep in things that are not beds. Not homework ... stop by Random Hall (and I happen to be home, and you recognize me) I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  "]P/NR.[/annotation] And it was, in some ways. PNR definitely made it easier to get into the ... how much effort to put into understanding a subject also came up in 18 ... , though, I’d like to admit that, in retrospect, five classes was definitely

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  ourselves to see how many words we recognized in each one. Then she'd hand out ... on, and you can see how this might get annoying. But, the class was ... enough to get around Rome for 2 days this spring.... Anyway, like all good

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  every kid around the world,”  said Binzel, according to an article in CBS ... in the late 1980s. Worked with Professor Jim Elliot and Ted Dunham to ... . Then worked to map out the dark and light areas of Pluto by measuring how

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  demonstration in Solid State Chemistry. I returned to Random Hall in a numb state ... in my room escalated back to numbers that looked like my test scores in ... , incidentally, also happens to exist outside of cyberspace sometimes. Anyway

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  asked of late. I'll address a couple quickly now, and get to some others soon. Katharine (and others) ask if the delay in the deadline will delay ... one in. Finally, I know that another deadline is about to pass for some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  Economics, and #9 in Political Science—these are numbers you can show off to ... had to give up my interest in mathematics. I simply applied it to other ... us to learn and get feedback from each other. Smaller departments

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  lot of people. look how easy it is to get signed up! Three steps, that ... think that website belonged to one of most elite schools in the country ... , Facebook was once an exclusively college networking site. A way to keep in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  how can you possibly go on. I think, in contrast to Kate, my self ... is, or how to go about acquiring it. The other type of depression is ... probably not considered “enough” to be clinical) in which a person feels

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do letters of recommendation have to be submitted in the MIT application portal?

  how the recommender intends to submit their materials, because it will ... Our preference is for recommenders to use our application portal to submit documents. However, they do have the option to submit their
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  the trip upstairs to the admissions officers. When we get them, the ... of hard work by the records office staff to get it that way. Admissions Officers get locked in a dungeon and cannot come out until all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  sculpture that lives in the East Campus courtyard. We tried really hard to get ... . Because it was 6:45 in the morning. And I'd gone to bed sort of later than I ... the cannon, leaving a cute toy one in its place. We weren't supposed to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  more interesting submissions were in response to short answer question #2 ... : "In a paragraph or two, describe to us a YouTube video, and why it is ... - Get Set Go Self Defense Where the Hell is Matt? Pulp Fiction in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008