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• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  I'm more worried than anything. Please feel free to be honest... if ... you even before I applied to MIT. "MIT students are way smarter than me ... , was part of a religious club, did a UROP, and made many lifelong friends

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  free barbecue going on somewhere on campus or saw somebody getting a ... /baklava/soda combo for only $4. Plus, if you buy 7 sandwiches, you get the 8th free! It ... burrito at room temperature, and Anna's burritos, unlike revenge, are not a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  ;-) Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule #0 ... with free food all over campus. Open houses, free pizza, liquid nitrogen ... Battle of the Bands is an annual CPW event hosted by ZBT where a bunch of

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  where I'm staying on campus. Kim '11, who was also in Toy Design with me ... Science will host a “Clubhouse-to-College and Career” Fair August 6, where ... the Museum of Science for free (yay MIT ID card!) and because I figured

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  you are, where you're coming from, what motivates you, what you ... read in their homes. For me, there are several places where you might ... ?). There were cheers and shouting as each of the major actors made their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  where people are talking about things I have no idea about, because I can ... ’s easy to take for granted the haven that is created Under the Dome, where ... my college back in Nairobi? Yes, the facilities and faculty here are

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Live from the Glass Lab! it's...tuesday afternoon??

  

  One of my favorite MIT organizations is the Glass Lab, where students, faculty, and staff can go hang out and create beautiful glassware and ... 3 webcams in the lab. Feel free to tune in. Live, from the Lino

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  . Now, where are we? As juniors, we feel like we finally found our footing ... lot of ppl are concerned about choosing MIT due to it being more ... help somehow, if you are still thinking about what to do on May 1st. Let

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  a microsphere. These microspheres are about 1-10 µm, about a hundred times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence, and are made out of two types of biodegradable polymers. Inside of the spheres are

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  there, as well as some here, made me think of something to post: namely ... a business trip, or fixing a hole in the roof where a tree came in ... " to "already applied" to "got in". I think ALL ECs are probably the same

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  monocase.' (i just made this word up on the spot so pls don't hurt me) there are actually a lot of explicitly distinguishable features from this ... ' or 'lol'. especially in chat messaging situations, periods are omitted

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  newest advancements in science and technology are made.   Which ... decisions are made. The class is taught to Course 15 undergrads and gives an ... MIT classes are divided up into units. The average class is 12 units

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  year." There are things that I have missed about MIT. I've missed friends ... ' for the friends I've made here and the team that I've rowed with for our college crew. Seeing another academic system, one where much more emphasis

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  one else can reasonably complain that they are made “worse off” by the ... that no one can legitimately claim that they are made “worse off” by it ... that everyone is truly free, they are actually living under this

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  MIT – and specifically, you teaching at MIT. What? There are many ... are all teachers – whether it’s working and learning together in the ... the many other (see #17) ways to teach,* you are most definitely coming

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  More CPW Pix

  

  nice to see folks I met last summer on campus (you know who you are), or ... showing up (thanks!). We made root beer floats (yum). There was much ... that made it all memorable. Hopefully that warmth comes through in these

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  will not be allowed to return to campus after Spring Break. Classes are continuing this week; classes next week are cancelled; classes after spring ... decision is completely understandable, considering that coronavirus cases are

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  interventions where you may have defiers. If there are defiers, then we wouldn ... economy. Many questions are of the form of “What is the impact of X policy on Y?” where X and Y can be, quite literally, anything: the effect

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  are lots of other jobs out there, some of which are barely technical at ... . EDIT: Timur informs me that these pages are not accessible to non ... few other things are charged directly to my student account, but

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  . There are bromeliads - living bowls of water where the treefrogs lay their ... , where the most exotic moths are to be found. On New Year’s Eve, we visited ... Mathematics. Hi! Most children grow up thinking bugs are cool; I never stopped

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014