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• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  expected for CPW, and a large portion of the campus hoping to serve as a host ... saving time didn't help me leave the office before dark. Most of you should ... while I was sleeping. One night, I dreamed that one of the performances at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Kresge Info Session Come integrate MIT, at least for an afternoon.

  

  the office about a slideshow of MIT images or clips of MIT music to help ... after the info session is over: The reason I know all of this is Dean ... MIT Admissions officers travel across the country during this season

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  subcommittee was Ben and another student, a great team. The three of us worked ... , as it turns out, was on campus with most (all?) of the MIT 2009 Early ... them the best classmates we could. All said, a great day of selection

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  genres of music, clothing, and stories that are unique to the African ... confronted with a world of people I had never related to. A majority of the ... the default language of the office. At lunch, I would sit and watch as

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  screen, since they tend to crack. sitting in the very center of an exam ... strive to be the first to reach the city of Adelaide, 3000 km south of ... Wednesday morning in Australia and speaks excitedly about the experience of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... . Editor's notes were added in the spring of senior year. For reference, here ... post.  On the week of Pi Day, my friend and I both wondered how a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who you gonna call? The Mythbusters @ MIT!

  

  see a number of mirrors all lined out on the grass. Last year, students ... : Last night, LSC hosted the Mythbusters, Adam and Jamie, who came to MIT to describe some of their work and how they get inspiration for what

  • by Bryan
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  helping students transition in and out of the dorm and navigating student concern during the renewal process. Being a member of this team was ... . There's quite a bit of concern that this apartment would prevent the floor

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  summer. the two sets of flights to pheonix, arizona are work-related, but the rest comes out of my paycheck. TT i'm going to anime expo in LA this ... ="here is a graph of the flights i'm going on this summer, where the vertices

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  Bridge and into one of most famous orchestra halls in the world. This trek ... products; the pure unexpectedness of seeing moment of inertia linked to the ... , slightly ragged due to the endless wear of psets and midterms, was renewed

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  Tissues - One 12 page lab report on the superposition of effects of ... as just a lot of math, and not the friendly kind. Interestingly enough, a lot of the problems I worked on this week had real life applications

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  : An informative diagram that I doodled Here’s a list of all the books I ... = nonfiction) Summer 2015     New Reads: The Emperor of All ... Asian American author) The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  “Think. Inspire. Motivate.” There has already been some coverage of the ... , but as one of the handful of inaugural TIMtalks speakers, I got a unique ... happen. I included videos of the talks in this entry, and I highly

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  ’t even noticed that i’d been enforcing the implicit constraint of only ... this state of being is actually fairly similar to the previous one ... the extra work i was doing was worthwhile? i invented a lot of answers

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  I'm often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is ... music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may ... evaluated by members of the MIT art & architecture faculty. Your artistic

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  you pictures of the muscles I have not sustained, and I drew a bunch of ... isn’t the same tired refrain of me listing the number of espresso shots I’ve had that day or the hours of sleep; one too many, the other

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  jumped at the idea of creating a new sign for our wall.   For ... discussing it with the rest of our house, I ended up drafting what the sign would look like using some pictures of the wall and created different 3D

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  just "Make") is sort of legendary. Gershenfeld has taught the class every ... had to design the bricks ourselves and laser cut them out of cardboard ... the peaks of the edges have to be wider than the valleys, so that the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  want to mention, which are some of the memorable moments from GIR's in ... monolayer of Au nuclei (styrofoam ball contraption, behold below) at the front of the room in order for us to calculate the percent rebound, relating

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  destructive because of the force behind it. (If it were, by Newton’s Third Law ... . It is the smallness of the bullet that gives it power. Likewise ... walk of life. As one of my NASA supervisors told me over the summer

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014