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• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  , professors are so happy to hold office hours and talk with students about ... before 9, so even if you go to bed at 3, you can still get some solid hours ... getting 6 hours of sleep... by senior year, I was getting to bed before 1 AM

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  practice back in the dorm, go to office hours, and do anything I could to ... blog entry has to be about CPW, so I'm going to treat you to another story. I had very little physics experience when I came to MIT. I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  favorite movie. If I saw or heard anything Tarzan-related, I'd beg them to ... my residual fascination with Tarzan contributes to how much I love the ... clueless is normal. We are beginners in everything we do, from reading, to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  hallways. In an effort to spice up the recurring blandness of Maseeh’s white, white walls, my roommate and I have taken it upon ourselves to overhaul ... still “under construction”, but I first wanted to give a shout out to an

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  means by "magnitude." In astronomy, we use the word "magnitude" to ... . "Magnitude" here could also have meant "importance." The term could be ... and somewhere near the bigness of a star. There's no golden chain to be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  important peer pressure was, and is, to our development as individuals. We are ... taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a generally good principle: don't let other people tell you what think or how to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  top 25 albums of 2007?! Come on, Blender.), when it occurred to me that it would be a really good idea to write a post. My dentist doesn't actually have anything to do with MIT, although I do constantly feel like the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  responds to several important pedagogical issues: it should cut more broadly ... to as Course 6 or EECS) is the most popular major at MIT with 700 ... , a senior majoring in Course 6 to learn about her experiences with the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  policies are subject to change for each entering class. Please refer to this page for up-to-date information on AP and transfer credit.] Remember ... cried like you didn't see THAT one coming), but it's still nice to have

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  'll ever attend. I am trying really hard to scrounge up some sad, much as I ... four years here and I love MIT to death. On the other hand, no school until September for this kid! (I have a feeling part of my inability to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  want to reread Marilee's recent post. [But MIT is my dream school, I can't imagine being happy anywhere else!] [This doesn't apply to everyone, but ... attracted to MIT's campus culture, I've found these students often are also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  commitments if i had to, and most importantly i’d learned that having no free ... . there’s one short scene i want to talk about in this post; it is probably ... probably screwed. in other words, by the time he knows to look for the other

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  important does MIT consider math competitions to be? Do you consider making ... Lupe (who I'm looking forward to seeing at CPW!) asked, "is it pretty simple to travel on train or ? from Logan to MIT?" We'll be running a bus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  I rolled out of bed at 8:30am last Friday and raced to Pappalardo ... cuts and scratches littering my hands fueled my trek to campus. Today was the last chance I had to work on and impound my robot. It didn't work

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  life update to catch you all up to speed.   Hair   If I had to name one aspect of myself that has changed the most in the last year, it has to be the volume of hair on my head. Although I always

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  nary a mine since bidding goodbye to the tender age of microwaved pizza ... prototyped during the Vietnam War to sharpen the reflexes of future army enlistees, and that Bill Gates had cleverly developed a way to hook up my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  , you actually expect MIT kids to remember things that aren't numbered ... features include an über-convenient café, an Athena computer cluster (not to ... , proximity to the Infinite Corridor, and - most relevant to this blog entry

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  of the lab (2 and a half hours) to build our toy. If you know me at all ... the 3rd floor of building 35 you ask? Well there used to just be a ... 's this class at MIT that designs toys, have you heard of it? It's hard to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  cheater for 1) being a senior and having more emotional things to say and 2 ... coffee when I got home so I might have been able to post mine first, but ... post for a long time, mostly over finals, when I dared to dream about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  hours too early. When this happens, the only acceptable thing to do is ... Hudson's wedding in Aspen, Colorado.) Last weekend, I went up to Seattle to celebrate the wedding of one of my floormates. She met her husband

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005