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• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There ... , you want to make a choice that leads to the least regret. So, how else ... , where everything is absolute. A view of the world where I feel if I don

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  only drink water for a week. I mean, eat, please, but think of how much ... wanted to get into it, too, but honestly wasn’t sure how much time I’d have ... is indeed a world outside of MIT and you should be concerned about it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  be a Havard student, which is how I learned all of this. I imagine ... they call UC, much like how MIT's is nicknamed the Stud. Thanks to ... I visited CMU this weekend! This is pretty long, so here's a table of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  blogging again. Maybe I'll even try to match how prolific I was as a freshman ... few of them have a "flexible option," which is often denoted by an ... is 2A. Also, Course VI is broken into three subsections, 6-1, 6-2, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  , you're the one I would expect to know how." This is one of the highest ... (life is both hard and weird without a conventional living situation ... more patient later. 2.Bring a big tote bag or backpack (this is self

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Events

  It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity

  

  . Bryan, President Hockfield periodically has lunch with a small group of 4 - 6 graduate and undergraduate students. She very much hopes that you ... you can be a part. Sincerely, Kirk Kolenbrander Senior Advisor to the

  • by Bryan
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  . If you're applying for regular action, now is also a good time to ... is completely optional): "On a separate sheet, show us and/or tell us ... Championship Series. My friends and I had planned a West Wing season premiere

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  : how to delegate things. delegate is a fancy word meaning getting someone else to do it. in esp we have a saying, which is "your job is not to do ... across. how to set up a meeting. i've learned that mit also runs on when2

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  good idea for a while, but after an hour of congratulating myself on how ... is a truncated icosahedron, which has 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons ... hedge my bets, I've set out on a crusade to learn more about regular old

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

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  MIT portal, in the orange box on the left there is an "Overnight Program" link ... quite a trip! We left off in Miami, where I had a great meeting before a ... , where I was due to do a meeting in Tampa. Like in Orlando and Miami, I had

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

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  graduate school and get a PhD. There is simply too much that I want to learn ... major, not a major crisis necessarily, though it certainly is a question ... true that is anymore. I think, in a vacuum, I love physics. But I don

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  . Navigate how much pain you can take. Decide how much is ‘worth it,’ whatever ... for how much I lifted or how long I rested. When bench presses or ... worse. If the former is true, I might well push through a set; if it’s the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  weekend; it is the intangible element that makes CPW so much more than a ... Campus Preview Weekend, none is more important than the CPW booklet, a 96 ... was a large cardboard box filled with industrial quantities of frozen

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  metallurgy). I am finding that Cambridge is much more concerned with theory and ... , the lab experience is much lamer. This week, I am learning atomic force ... 'll get to do all year. As a side note, AFM is incredible because it lets

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  cookie monster. Second: Count how many of each cookie is used in the ... CAN BE EATEN is a clue for EDIBLE. These are the cookies: (C ... Technology has plans for world domination through weather control. It is our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  ://open.spotify.com/playlist/3EGKKO6m7WI5iA1Z7eHb40?si=6c3b4351813f4ae0 Monday My general plan is ... lab, a 25-minute walk down Mass Ave. Usually the day is clear, or ... time? — but I love the process of writing a first draft. The world is as

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

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  considering how understaffed he is, but I’ve been sick pretty much every other ... , and once caught a cold in 90 degree weather. I’m still not sure how that ... from a friend a few weeks ago during a different contamination: Hey, how’s

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  cadets a few weeks ago. It is statements like these that make me very ... . I want to be a fighter pilot - that is why I joined AFROTC, for the ... 't expecting to gain much in the program other than a commission. Now I am a year

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  say is that I've never really been able to take a break yet this ... although MIT is indubitably hard, much of the difficulty is self ... classes, have a schedule: 6.01 (Intro to EECS via Robot Sensing) is an

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  will be a simple text box, similar to one of the essays from the Part 2 ... Midyear Report: This online form is required for all applicants, including ... semester (or after completion of the second quarter, if your school uses a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010