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• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  got free art materials from MIT over IAP, which I'll talk about in a ... in the midst of a lot of relationship-related conflict to be reminded how wonderful and validating my friendships are. We made a nacho table

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  liked without taking a class in that course? After much hemming and hawing ... chemistry is fickle, feral, in a way that few things are. The flasks and vials ... , which is a major focus of Course 10. Also, Course 10 has a lot of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  "] trophy![/caption] Get Out of Kansas Free (Pulled Over in a Solar Car ... hair is in a bun too tall and high to be structurally stable. The way she ... , we registered the car in Massachusetts, where there is a seven

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  awesomeness is how to keep track of it all! In the past, we've given our CPW ... and the iPod Touch series. The app is free, and features: A ... MIT community is incredibly devoted to CPW, hosts a ton of excellent

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  semester was a total blur. In some ways, I did it wrong. 5 classes and a UROP ... do. But the summer is a totally different beast. I've compiled some ... there's a dark band between rainbows? Or that the color order is inverted

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  best place for me is a jack of all trades, dabbling in meche and in ... sitting in a coffee shop in Arizona, finishing this blog many months later ... from a corner where the wall is painted black to a corner underneath my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor ... away from where I live. We spent the first two or so hours in a car ... somewhere kind of far out at sea as the sun set. I mused about reclining in a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  job involves cleaning up poop in monkey cages. Desk is actually a pretty ... Environment offices, when I was accosted by a man in a bicycle taxi. MAN: "Hey, do you want a ride? It's almost free!" ME: "Well, no, I'm actually only

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  applications that a lot of prospective MIT students are interested in how to use ... reproducing structural bias in data and AI, which is a huge risk for those of us ... , Catherine D'Ignazio, is even a professor at MIT! Oh god I'm old.  Earlier

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  they're whining about is that in 2006, the writer of Doonesbury put up a ... super hero group is a bit easier than getting in. Bullwinkle Moose Yes ... "likes". Cornell is super jealous, and they started trash talking a bit

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  interviews has changed. A description of the current interview process is ... 's start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start.) 0. Is an ... . "Your interview gives us a vivid sense of you as a person and how you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  beautifully how to analyze everything, but says that analysis is only a tool ... develop a plan for a stair-climbing wheelchair. Blanco submitted a design in ... in class. "The approach consisted of a reclinable-seat wheelchair

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  justice to how profound and enriched that time in life was.  A year after ... -learned how to write my name in Thai, and inquired with family. I learned a lot ... so much that can happen in any year, let alone a gap. Above are the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  ’ve learned that “just right” is pretty much only right when the judge scores a ... recall learning. In this way, TKD is not really much different from say ... class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  narrow my decision down to two schools, and there is no better way to get a ... , Johnson. This is, in my opinion, one of the most valuable events of CPW ... free swag and begging for your email address. You can get a sense of what

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  Now that things have calmed down a bit at work, I finally have some more time to do some blogging! Here is a random smattering of things I've been wanting to blog about. THE SHARPE BROTHERS A while back, on the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Orientation Wrap-Up Reason #457 why I love Orientation: I don't have to pay for food for a…

  

  So Orientation is pretty much also a week of free food. The saying ... Playfair, we all headed over to the Student Center for a party with more free ... Match School and getting stuff ready for the upcoming school year. A lot

  • by Bryan
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  is insane. In that moment I realized how rich the world is, and how ... spend time in anther country. It’s difficult to justify spending a ... ’re studying at the Instituto Internacional in Madrid, living with a Spanish

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  ...or taking a nap. Keep in mind, this is just my take on things. I ... fun?" I think this is a very interesting question to pursue. So one ... -nighters six out of seven nights a week. Here's what I say to that; yes, MIT is

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  reference: In reference A, Theorem 5 is said to follow from The­orem 3 in ... education for free in only a year" by dedicating themselves to online ... classes for junior fall. One of the classes I'm in this semester is 6

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014