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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  To take a leaf out of Sam's book: DID YOU KNOW? Charlotte ... the last six hours, and have another eight to go. But this isn't about ... don't have questions, then just tell me about your day ("Well, first I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  people pictured (I'll only publish first names), and any reactions to the ... here: To celebrate the movie release, I am declaring this weekend to be ... take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  planning committee, I feel it is my duty to share with you all the exciting event secrets. Seniors took a break from their theses to celebrate, among other things, the first two consecutive days of nice weather since

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  Rocky, The Godfather, The Princess Bride (read the book first, though ... Carnival, The Inner Game of Tennis, the Spencer booksAdvice about applying to ... yourself is going to lead to the right outcome for you. This is true in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  before my senior year of high school, I went to meet with the IB coordinator (basically a guidance counselor) to review my college application ... Mass Tech made my list. I actually hadn’t even thought about applying to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  'm Abir, a prefrosh, and I was fortunate enough to have the BEST host ever ... asked me to guest blog about CPW and I am going to try to give a glimpse ... beaver I am, I decided to book my flight to CPW EARLY in the morning; 6

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  Playsentations began. The first group to go was Tube Racers. followed by ... Tension filled the air as people were ushered in to 6-120. Scientists dotted the MIT campus, urging people to get to 6-120 as fast as possible

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  :( what should i do to prepare for the tryouts in the fall? First and ... This morning I went in early to image neurons on the confocal microscope again, and I was going to take pictures of the lab and our equipment

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  undergrad level. So if you come to MIT (or any other top undergrad school), you'll talk to your fellow students and find that their acceptances and rejections don't seem to fit a pattern -- one person was accepted at School A

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  to the first post in this series, I sent out a poll asking people for ... making a billion pancakes on Tetazoo. It was right next to my first room so ... (This is the second half of the Art of East Campus series. The first

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  from first quarter to demonstrate what that entails: -- data structures ... Programming in Python, first quarter of 6.00) and 6.0002 (Introduction to ... bonus: for our first WGS.229 essay, we had to take and analyze several

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  be sure, Nozick was not the first to advocate for such ideas, with ... had never consented to. The first part of Anarchy, State, and Utopia is ... gradually become clear and solid to me. The argument Firstly: What does the

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

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  resigned to becoming a regular old software engineer for the first two years ... my cave of despair to blog again! I've made this post two years in a row at this point, and I figured that it would only be appropriate to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  I know this is delayed, but I never got to write an end ... ended, but I'd like to sum things up in one post and just get it all out ... fun all the time.  I really had to struggle to just pass my classes, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  ethic to just sit down and finish that %&!@ pset already. So first ... you, ThinkGeek.com! Well, at first Tetty pretended to be mortified to ... , how would you describe your first year at mit? relieved that you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  thekeri said: And to Laura: update? Please? I'm suffering over Spring ... ). While technically you don't need any knowledge of 18.02 to understand 18 ... mad at me because my kindergarden teacher wanted to talk to her, and she

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  The college recruiting process can be a confusing world to maneuver ... ’s Women’s Soccer team! I was the first in my family of four kids (who all play soccer) to get recruited, so I definitely have advice for other

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  2023 this year. She also happens to be quite a good writer, so we decided to do a dual blog post about our CPW experiences - hers as an excited ... ] I committed to MIT a couple of weeks ago, so my main goal at CPW was

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  my stuff (since I had already planned to spend the first night with ... the fastest way to work and what they mean by "la noche madrileña"- the ... don't even know where to begin. I guess the beginning is best- I got

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  -is? Thanks again. You are welcome to submit your first-marking-period grades to ... . :-) ------------------------------------- If I would like to play for an athletic team, should I contact the coach before I apply to MIT or just (if i get in) show up for tryouts? And

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006