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• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  . A great place to find a parent to talk to would be in the Parent ... us in the Admissions Office the weekend is more about getting ready for ... the weekend it makes sense for me to offer some tips about how you can

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  few blocks away in any direction. First off, there's Toscanini's about ... went at the end of last semester before it was time for us to take our ... blog entry, you can probably tell I support diversity in ice cream

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  best described in How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose, by Vince ... prom date who is a math teacher in rural Washington now and trying to get ... tripping over each other to get onto the page. Sometimes it is hard because

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  now we finally get to see the parts in real life. If you haven’t seen an ... or worse, it’s going to be over in three hours.  Projects, however ... been working in teams to design, build, and control robots to assist a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  , representing the Hamentashen team. In order to understand his slides, I’ll ... guys will get to see it. I assure you that the real thing was much better ... MIT was packed to capacity with students eager to hear six MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  of the movie was a little joke by Pixar. And I refuse to bow to the ... storms, so that is the last time I will mention Nemo in this post. It ... of snow on MIT: What better way to celebrate than with a giant

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  where the TA was doing an introduction for how to code in C++, and he ... . I bought my computer off eBay in 2015, right before going off to ... computer died. Or the time it took multiple hours to get a simple piece of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  Fall Hits MIT… in the form of a Giant Spider! I promise I'm not a blog-hog, this is just too good!

  

  couple babies! But how did the little spiders get all the way to Lobby 7 ... Let's cut right to the chase: THERE'S A HACK IN 6C! Natanya ... a web! I've decided to name him Lucifer. He's huge! He has the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  ones in which I get to dispense laughs or in which I get a chance to learn from you. It was great to confirm my suspicions - in addition to ... blog seems to really resonate with many in cyberspace. It is hard to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  ="768"] When did you get a sliver of the moon in your eyes/And how'd you ... , ranging from absolute flaming garbage to (at least in your opinion) pretty great. It’s nice and cool outside, so you go to sit on the front porch

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  wouldn’t be able to get in, just because you are never fully prepared to ... also knew getting in would be an uphill climb. Oh, and first I had to go ... significant challenges in my life up to that point than getting an A in math

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  don't know how to cross streets in the city, but I do know how to get ... comfortable enough to actually fall asleep. A fifteen-minute nap in Hayden can give me enough alertness to get me through the rest of my day... plus it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  How many desserts can one consume in 2 ½ hours? Five MIT students decided to find out, while celebrating a 21st birthday. We had three stops ... pastries just waiting to be injected with ice cream! They opened the store in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  Okay, so I just figured out how to add the Spanish keyboard to my OS ... ...it's kind of pathetic, I suppose, that I just figured out how to do this. But ... yet (I'll get to it later, I'm about to go to sleep...), but basically

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  and i have nothing much to do. but with nothing to do, i'm getting kinda bored. so i'm writing this blog post. (how does it feel to be the friend ... for organizations to last a lifetime. but i get bored of making websites

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  . Basically, in a ploy to get people carry around their new 3DS systems ... 's outward facing camera, the 3DS is able to establish its orientation in 3D ... if in offering to the Nintendo Gods, it recognized the card. LOOK AT

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  semester. I loved biology in high school - mainly because I had a great ... writing and think it'd be great to improve my creative writing ability, or ... fantastic benefit to working in my lab because when I'm done with my work, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  and my voice. I decided to make the three posts different in some ways ... frequency of my blogs. I do not have to force-write posts if I am in a writer ... to read.  I am always evaluating myself on how I am doing. I am usually

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  imagine the kind of support you’ll get. You don’t need to know what to ask ... route to transferring to MIT in September 2024, I attended a small liberal ... A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  anywhere else! If you’ve ever been to the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch before ... pumpkin. Time to make a stem! Get an assistant to gather a small blob of ... Last Saturday was MIT’s annual Great Glass Pumpkin Patch! [caption

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023