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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Alumni Association: Friday evening, there is a nice reception with MIT ... CPW website as a PDF. You can fax it to 617-253-4076. If you have ... help bring the campus to you! There's a lot more excitement between now

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  ... Anyway. The other gift, as you can probably guess by now, was a Valentine ... on a secret: MIT Admissions loves you. No, really. I know the L-word gets thrown around a lot these days, which I think is sort of sad, since

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  of my own. A lot of it is standard stuff, stuff that you'll hear all ... you the most good. Interpretations of each can be found on a page of ... there? You don't need to be doubting yourself as you enter finals or a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  , talk to somebody! There are a million and one people around you who are ... . Also, your professors are there to help you. If something is bugging you ... are, because first semester freshman year is a ball. My awesome pre

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  . There were a handful of other benefits of being too: CPT is built into ... “Where did you learn about functional programming outside of 3 ... says you’re in the EECS department – is that true?” another asked during

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  do you mean, 'good morning'? Do you mean that it is a good morning for you, or do you wish me a good morning, although it is obvious I'm not ... must find a way to get to Ogana Major on your own. He is waiting for you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  . There was one little point where you could stand with a clear babbling ... college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month ... that Seattle is a gorgeous city. I was not disappointed. A lot of what

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  the words is irrelevant. Don't let the cyrillic stop you. Have a ... a riddle for today: You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1 ... mollusk scale, insists that you can identify the lighter jar by performing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  I've come home and found a place where I can unabashedly be my loud ... Well hello there it's been a while and I'm am ridden with guilt and embarrassment that I haven't blogged in a while, BUT in my defense there has been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  to correct after someone pointed it out. Maybe you can see it a little ... small and detailed painting is kinda challenging. There’s a lot of room ... adults, where I think ‘adults’ is a euphemism sex scenes, gore, and darker

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  . How often is it that you can say that you were in a place where it was ... 's already a reading assigned for 5.13? This is nonsense. This year is going to ... sure there wasn't a single thing on Stellar* that I didn't know about. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  applicable or useful, but there you go.  Albatross Lore For a good portion of ... pineapple is just really, REALLY sour.  In swimming, there’s a competition category called “Freestyle” where you can use any officially

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  'm not looking forward to! Which is also a first for me. There was always at least ... students, and there was a period in elementary school where I thought I ... finishing my major (which is surreal), but it's also a mindset change that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  depends on where you live. In MacGregor, it's fairly rare for a student to ... watch a lot of TV is highly dependent on whether or not you watched a lot ... -year-old brother, and I am the happy owner of a shiny new Sony Vaio! My new Vaio is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  good can come from putting Such a thought Out into the world. Is that ... ’s asking the question in the first place. And even if there is a simple ... ? Is that how you’d advise your students? Is that a mindset you

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  YouTubers and writers Jon Bois, where he ranked every NCAA FBS college ... how specific the school is about their mascot, I either got a specific ... phylogenetic tree based off of the file's contents. You can then save the tree as

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  . You're in spot A-12." Okay, I thought. A midsize instead of a compact ... car for hours at a time on busy city streets, where dings and scratches ... 't trust myself with a ~$40,000 automotive masterpiece. "It's not you; it

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  Office)  where you can apply to be interviewed for a lot of different ... conversation with Katie '17, but she is in my sorority as well as a member of LUChA (La Union Chicana por Atzlan). LUChA has a mentoring program where

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  ! There’s been a lot of the ways my life has changed, both expected and ... vs. Honolulu: [carousel image1="116460" image2="116461" /] As you can ... roommates can attest, it most certainly has—my bedtime is now around 3:00 am

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  had to tear it down a couple weeks later) You can watch a time-lapse of ... There’s a lot of things that happen to us that we simply don’t think ... easily recorded than ever before. So here is a random assortment of photos

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017