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• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  impossible. So now, I get to start of my days writing in bed as opposed to ... change nonetheless. I am left thinking about how much has truly changed ... than 6 months ago, I thought I'd stay in my old room until the day I died

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  entertaining, but right now we would like to emphasis something you should take ... ?  That event is probably a sneak peak into how the residents have fun with ... there so much they moved in early to hang out with you guys!  They can

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  as CPW. As for CPW, I don't think it goes according to plan for most prefrosh, because I don't think it is possible to grasp the sheer enormity of it, without having experienced CPW previously. How many campus visit

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  Hi folks - a comment I received in response to the last entry: I ... impact an essay can have. I just wanted to clarify my last post in case I ... who were strong in other areas. I was really just trying to say that

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  've learned anything that I could share with you that would help you relax. But ... MIT in a designated space marked off w/electrical tape. Then I rigged up ... from school, I can see the SIZE of the envelope! It's still dark here in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  them just to see what happens, but not in a dangerous way." Really, I ... easier (shoot, three more days!). Anyhoo, I'm going to be covered in fur in, uh, oh snap, five hours, so I think I'm just going to wash some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!

  

  excited electrons in the sky. I stopped by Ashdown (grad dorm) for free ... So where did I decide to watch the fireworks from? C! The MIT Sailing Pavillion Now I'll tell you why, after I show you everything else

  • by Bryan
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On schools & context

  

  A while back, I asked for parent questions and received exactly one, which I haven't yet answered. It was: "It would be good if you could talk ... I've said in the past, the large majority of our applicants are highly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  physical classes. now, i'm living in a house with some friends, taking ... things down when i've had enough. this tuesday, every person in my house ... 'm not running from activity to class to activity anymore—i'm just in my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  -of-knowing. but this class of people is, i suppose, special in that we entered mit ... people i wanted to. but i saw a lot of them in those last few days of the ... prouder than anything else, that in some small and minute way i have maybe

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  Institute Requirements in a blender and added basic neuroscience - I have to ... transformed into signals in the nervous system. Examines how the brain uses ... of cool optical illusions. I get to remember how to do convolutions, a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  other friends in the class, my top advice for picking classes. i love how ... ! that's the least number of classes i've ever taken in mit, and the least ... requirement of being on an f1 visa. in theory, i should have less work to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  -- i.e., that that would be measured by an very large MIT in the limit of ... to MIT many times, you would expect to get in in approximately 1 in 3 ... applying 500 times would probably give a good result, but I don't feel like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  inevitably care for me in my old age to play music that I actually like.   ... whole phase in October where I listened to Cab Calloway's version of "St ... My personal judgment of the blogger: this is all stuff I listened to in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to ... -mates, hopefully figure out some way to use the myriad 5-cent coins I've amassed in ... Sam's Mom in the early morning for the 8-hour trip up Boston way. I can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  , hastily labeled "Ideas for Later". And in this box I keep, surprise, ideas ... down. Then I'll throw it in the box, and whenever I get antsy about ... these projects. So that's exactly what I'm doing! My friends in Oregon

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  same professor that I’d had in Brazil. This was too tempting, so I am now ... about the research process in MechE. I'm planning to design an experiment ... II This class is a 6-unit follow-up to 2.678, a core class in MechE. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  in high school, I was a pretty shy person. I was very quiet, went to ... freshman year. (resume anecdotes) While I tell myself I would come to MIT ... , I'll be honest. I went to high school in the south, and you know

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  -- teachers in this country are seriously overworked and underpaid; I hope you ... who has taught you in an academic class in high school (i.e. no middle ... process is the same in this case. I get many questions about what subject

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  throughout the reading of the application), I'll dive right in. How do you ... better picture of who you are, how you are in the classroom, how you think, how you relate to peers and teachers. Then, I read the secondary school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005