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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  you pick an event where you can meet up with your student each day ... river can be a nice break from all the events of the day. Have questions ... at Student Financial Services so you can stop in and get your questions

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  Calculus: I can't mention 18.02 without describing Professor Poonen, an ... the top of my head: You get brownie points if you can name this. The ... natural intelligence drop off, I can seriously get to work on pursuing more

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  conditions here in Cambridge. The good news is there's not much that you can ... ? I can personally withstand a snow-induced catastrophe for at least ... students taking for-credit courses over IAP, you can also spend your time on

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  track one's progress in a leadership program, when you can't really assign ... can hear it: "M-I-T! M-I-T! M-I-T! GO MAGGIE! YOU’VE GOT THIS!" A blur ... ), but can be extremely motivational (like at XC Regionals). To all those

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  , what are you-click-doing?!But I can say these shoes were once black… and ... picture of my brass rat so I can say my MIT ring was at a national monument.” Success! Although you can’t really tell it’s in a California forest. I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  promises can't shake off the sense that I've made some amazing friends and ... can only bridge a bit of the distance! Many of the kids we've taught are ... families during our time here in Germany, and I can't begin to say how

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  check in occasionally so I'd suggest you pick an event where you can meet ... short walk along the river can be a nice break from all the events of the day. Evenings can be cool here this time of year and it will even

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  courses 2 and 16, which means you can take it for EECS, Mechanical ... feels rewarding. I can't bring myself to write too much more about it ... when it feels hopeless, I can pull through. Sappy? Perhaps, but darned

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  competition video here because a grainy 480x360 video can't do it justice - you ... can read this great article in Popular Mechanics about FIRST, this year ... tension will remain. Good: your FIRST season CAN go perfectly, because the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  Hrm, ok. Let's pretend everything is seven or eight days ago so that I can write about this as if it happened last weekend. [Begin Time ... local: I can go home to get things. Sometimes that means I can go home and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  being. I can dream in black-and-white or in color, but not in black ... that if celestial bodies won't move for you, you can at least move your ... nobody reading your blog can tell the difference anyway. At least I didn

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  record and it records audio while you're writing, which means you can slow ... , so you can check his blog out for some videos showing the pen ... I can talk about my job at Los Alamos, which segued into what my plans

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  combinations of images and words such that you can figure out which word ... repeated. We want to see if infants this young can determine which words mean ... . My summer is productive, but not too taxing. I can still relax and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  pungent mushrooms, like a million thimble-sized cans of tomato paste, tempeh ... and bananas are basically the only things you can depend on on when the ... alternated between meltingly tender and softly chewy as only intestines can be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  banana-flavored granola bars? There must be. Granola bars can taste like ... can feel my youth dripping away, slowly, like melting bananas. 10:30 pm ... , numbing eternity. I can't remember the last time I was so far away from the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  taught Latin at Splash! since sophomore year at MIT.  On April 30, you can ... !, you can't buzz until Alex Trebek is done reading or you get locked out ... temps. within it can vary by 25 degrees." Her answer, "What is the Grand

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  reflective essays about each of the projects we do. Instead of this, we can ... be in the form of a blog, I thought, "well how can I not?" 1 ... 'm going to graduate. And then I have to be an adult. I'm not sure you can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  enjoying the laziest IAP I can muster. I sleep until at least noon every day ... , tablets cost WAY more than $150! "How's the battery life?" I can go all day ... software that you can use for a free 30-day trial or buy for about ~$25

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  , "I can't wait until I get to MIT and brush shoulders with Nobel Prize ... company since it was like a "omg-I-can ... their research (that is, if you can even understand the extent of their

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  poses a problem when the unit can't accurately detect whether I'm actually ... solution to the last post's title, you can go here. Personally, I was ... versions of that song. Can you guess where this post's title comes from? (No

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008