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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  's cover, and take a chance to try something new. Rule #6: Pack for the ... Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule ... : Talk to people, prefrosh and current students alike. I think the best

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  are good questions, and the jury is still out. I’m committed to this ... again? My answer is a cautious yes. I love physics and I don’t want to ... asleep during class. Everything carries an associated cost, and the key to

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... my dreams, and senior-year-me couldn’t be happier to be there. I was ... various dorms and houses to decide where I actually wanted to live for the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  .36 (Neurobiology of Self) which is a class that focuses on the neural mechanisms of the self, in an autonomic sense, and how we might begin to attempt to separate our physical forms from our thinking forms, if there is even a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  work, and life is good. But in the meantime, you probably want to do anything but work, so that is why I propose the following: an MIT Admissions ... with the phrase "On A Farm," which is connected to a bunch of boxes

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  to sleep. But there is learning to be done! So I make a mental note to ... to see them and show them around the campus that I like to call home ... pita chips. Life was good. There is a media room in the basement of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  you and the car is related to the force along y delivered to your bike ... situation is the same as if you collided with a stationary car while biking at ... FPOP, interviewed Matt and I yesterday for it, and the article is pretty

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010. That doesn't mean I'm not allowed ... ") ensemble, and this January we had the amazing option to actually go to ... (sabar drummers), learning to dance the Senegalese way, and eating lots and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  , and a stay at a luxury hotel that looks like the one from The Shining ... find a jug of whole milk next to the half-and-half. Though I'm sure it ... day of MARC. While Hans took a nap and I wandered around the basement

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  everything else. And I'm sad to say that the first thing to go is always my ... supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... metaphors from a reading, Travel and Writing by Butor, claims that life is a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  : Bostonians only have a 25 Letter alphabet. No one knows what happened to the ... Gruder gets it. Satire is supposed to leave a mark. Advice about applying to ... like a chore at first, remember that everything in you application is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  . Without the people and the place that have become a home for me. Well there ... conversations about your future, life is too easy and things become a big deal ... you the boot in the butt and tells you to get lost. And then what do you

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  moved in there was only a hexagonal frame in the courtyard, and by the ...  three storeys high. Imagine that: three storeys. And the deadline was in a couple ... -playing. Sure, there’s this stereotype that it’s a bunch of nerds who dress up and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  done at the same time, there’s a lot to look forward to. for instance ... attempting ai research seriously, and G seemed like a good way to try that out ... thing i like the most about growing up is that you become more and more

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  I do not own any fall clothes. It seems that this is going to be a ... Wisconsin, and the other, Abby, is from San Diego. Last week I get home from class one day to see that Claire has received a big box of “fall clothing

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  years here. Ming says that doing research is the best way to learn and ... , the researchers in the Seung Lab designed a robot that learns how to walk in the same way that humans do. Ming says, "The idea is that babies

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  morning, again, and lab work in the afternoon. “Work” is a generous term, as ... proves that it is possible. And she does have time to go out for ice cream ... wandered through a light drizzle. There was mist on the road, and clouds all

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  different dorms. After visiting and getting a feel for the dorms you get to ... broken. I'd be willing to bet that a lot of the floors had a Wii on, we did ... between floors, it's a chance for freshmen to visit all the floors and find

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  of my friends and everything around me is that hundreds of other people on campus were doing the same thing with the same purpose: to take part in A Day In The Life, a project open to the entire MIT community

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  A few days ago, President Reif emailed the MIT community to announce a webinar on the science of vaccines, and the role they will play in fighting the pandemic. The webinar is open to the public, and will be hosted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021