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• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  parents love getting to visit me in Boston. The Parent Lounge: I hope you ... financial aid award, when your supplemental forms are due, how to pay your balance, how to find on-campus student employment, and how your online

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  .0001 (Intro to Computer Science Programming in Python) — real talk. aside from ... —partly because i thought i was too late to the game to get good at it, and partly ... THICC 5/5 cannot be described in words 😩 (lol MIT is not a bad place to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  adventure to Montreal in the great land of Canada. Neither of us had been to ... : So all in all, it was a successful and spontaneous adventure to the ... . She asked me if I wanted to go to Canada, and I said yes. About 24 hours

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  and tweaking components to get everything to work like it does in the ... so much cool great fantastic stuff, that it becomes tough to blog ... of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  A parent posted a great comment on my last entry, with too much to ... in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other issues in the future. The parent wrote: Why is it so important to have gone

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  it is in Boston or Addis Ababa.   How do people “get” water ... used the word “preventing”—to me, it shows how in many places, we take ... our utilities get to us—in fact, I can say with certainty that I know

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  premiered in a theatre Wagner built specially for it. True to form, the ... in various ways by computer, then projected onto to create, by turns ... managing to be graceful Rheinmaidens while suspended 30 feet in the air

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  lab or get a paper published in a top journal. I have to admit this ... message might get lost in the deluge. Lizzy also asked how early housing ... pressure to work hard, or do students in the program encourage each other to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  State on my full scholarship, she was planning to get a pool in the ... , are you really getting married???? (in reference to Ben's dating post ... . Anonymous asked, do you have any advice on how to get to know professors? it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  I've learned in 6.01 and to get down some more Python concepts so that ... out, taking forever to get in. But if I jump right into the deep end and ... weeks. I couldn't begin to fathom how many other people are going through

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  disabilities services to talk about how I can get around and get caught up in my ... Kayla E. '15 and I decided that it was a great idea to go out for a run ... could barely make it up the stairs I was in so much pain. I promised to go

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  our regional happening in a couple of weeks, there’s a lot of work to get done… ESP Retreat: Every semester, ESP has a retreat to talk ... to address in the middle of the semester and running programs. These

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there ... problem was to get the answer. What about the answer? Why does it even ... great photography class where I am learning to take photos with film

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer Decisions to be Released Today

  

  , we had to decline admission to a great many outstanding students. We know this. And it's not a great feeling. What is a great feeling ... applicants will be emailed their decisions at 5 pm. Eastern Time to the email

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • May 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  energy, excited state, which is great to be in, but eventually, it will ... have to nullify any part of any experience. just because i am calm in a ... back.  when i suffer great loss, i can allow myself the opportunity to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  in our lives—in this case, how to communicate more effectively via ... source project, which is a great idea. I urge all of you to join me in this ... offered me to write a guest blog, and I thought it was a great time to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  physics, grade a few papers, and in exchange I get to say I helped teach a ... . Or in laymen's terms, I get to break stuff in lab =). It's fascinating ... guy to get to listen to my professors talk about how it all works and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  instance, I was lucky to get one or two of them in a given year, presumably ... weather. To get us started, let's go over some important terms: Nor ... you miss due to snow gets made up near the end of the year, though I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  lot of what I was looking forward to in college.   freshman year  As a ... to keep pursuing existing interests in computer science, while seeking ... lol” kind of way, since one of the first things I had to get used to at

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man ... five-something am to squeeze an hour of writing in before school. I struggle to crawl out of bed now, but I’ll stay up late into any night to get

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023