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• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  've met a few people you can talk to, see how well you can get to know them ... , if you went to CPW, getting back in touch with your host is a good way ... !) in your lifetime. They've also been some pretty great teachers

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  resubmission to our journal. Getting to “Reviewer 2” Albert Einstein (in a nice ... to be Paper 2; in a few weeks when I get feedback, I’ll need to revise ... : reflective, personal, and trying to get people to accept me for something

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  kind of situation) is to make lots of plans, so I had ’em ready in spades: I imagined, as realistically as I could, how it would feel to be ... I wanted to open my decision alone so we could get the argument out of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  to sleep. For those playing along at home, here is Pset 8 in all its ... are a strange beast to me in E+M. 5:10am. Still thinking about SI units ... so as to illuminate the otherwise dark shadows in the figure. A

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  classmates and get dinner with people in your hall/in your club, and with how ... to axiomatic thinking. Except, in reality, mathematicians don’t start ... rules that be. In particular, I wonder who created them, how they are

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  time we also just go get food together or go to the movies, but all in ... ). So just in case you don't want to watch the entire video here are a few ... actually loved a ton! It was basically just a writing class on how to write

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  getting to the drive-in window where the lady says, "Here's your Big Mac ... in the blogs about how important your living group is to your MIT ... means that you have to live in that dormitory for the year (unlike

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  getting a 100% and a 70% in a class will show up exactly the same on your transcript. hence, don't try to get a 100"]A, B, or C[/annotation]) or No ... would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  part of trip planning was then figuring out places to visit. In my mind ... ditched it eventually and decided to improvise once in the town. Salem ... witch hats and cats in the storefronts. We never did make it to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more ... challenge is proctored to help them identify aptitude, understand how students ... concepts are in our daily lives -- it might even motivate some students to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  fellow '12s in an effort to get to know them better") Matt's entry to see ... wrong, but hey, I was pretty stoked to be quoted in an article and have ... coming to an end and I was in denial about having to leave Alameda, I

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  drawing and tell the machine exactly how to make your part by defining the ... engines: To see a video of my engine running, click here! I didn't get it to run in time for the speed competition, but afterwards I worked on it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  —it was great seeing all the '22s who used to live in Burton Conner, along ... March 27th, i got to experience spreak in all its glory! it was absolutely ... immediately ubered to the airport with two people in my group who also live in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  . Classes are in full swing, though I’m just getting acclimated to how much ... brought in a tank of fluorescent fish, which I thought was a great way to ... . Hooray for living in Maseeh! Katherine ’17, Cathy ’17 and I managed to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  I'll get use to it in the future, but it's pretty weird. I'll keep ... we are trying to integrate VR tech into high school classrooms. In this game, one person uses the VR headset to navigate a cell in a first person

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  how to get back on - with the end result that I haven't blogged for over ... structure of America's higher education systems Great! Glad to get that over ... to get down the basic facts - oversharing first base, if you will. You

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  to decide and no one can tell you otherwise.  Anyways, it’s great to ... .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and ... winged mechanical beast that brought me to a new world, and I rode in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  learned in classes to create a tangible product. Did you know that Collier ... ’t work? Am I just bad at doing research? In some ways, the answer to that ... and guidance, I was afraid of being seen as incompetent; unable to get

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  for everyone, and we pushed through to get all our dishes in downstairs ... to get the tradition going early. For our first Floor Frosh Social ... useless in the context of Apple Bake, so I decided to try my hand at a few

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer ... , video game designer...you get the gist. And then in 6th grade at the ... properties either those inherent to the cell or those in the local environment

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006