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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new ... better at time management, but that's deserves it's own entry). As of July ... readers may have picked up on, this is one of those times, as my summer has

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  absolute blast this summer. So here goes my attempt at one of those guides ... of the most important things, SLEEP. Make sure you get some at least ... So summer kind of comes to an end today. Orientation starts next week

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is there really a Game Lab?

  new approaches for applied game design and construction. Their mission ... groundbreaking games, interactive online courses, and new applications to real-world challenges. Yes, you can make a career out of playing games.
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  asian a cappella group. this post is a look at the different components of ... arrangements. the pros are that learning new music for each concert is a lot of ... somewhat arbitrary part of the concert because, well, it has to be sung at

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  of this New Yorker issue), a digital object is overlaid on the screen ... following augmented reality and virtual reality closely since the beginning of 2016, but it wasn't until the AR in Action conference last week at the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  : because at the end of the day, it’s about your lived experience, not just ... from a rural or small town?". This is an iteration of one of the most common questions I get at college fairs and webinars: "Does MIT

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  , representing one of their student groups at the Activities Fair, problem sets ... social life at MIT begins. I originally met two of my closest friends ... of the people I originally met at CPW. So seriously, meet as many

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  year at MIT right now, I clearly got more out of that info session than ... so at first. In senior year of high school, I was not understanding AP ... " after we took our exams at the bimonthly Science League competitions

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  was one of my favorite restuarants in Chinatown: Taiwan Cafe. Taiwan ... recommendations, browse on over to Mitra's blog (this week: Thai food at Chili Duck ... of geeks, and suddenly remembered that this was the night of the super

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  favorite thing about MIT – the ski team! For those of you who don’t know, at ... , bought a race license, and two new(ish) pairs of skis though, one for each ... icy race course at Okemo, scared out of my mind. I frantically texted my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  bound up with the concern that not being at the top of the class will ... classes, even though some of my biology recitations were held at night ... I would have still felt like I needed to be at the top of the class

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  introduce yourselves! We met lots of folks at CPW who were regular readers but ... incredibly proud of her. At the same time, I (and I am not alone) don't know ... when I test later, you'll see a bunch of new things early next week

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  current status of it is? The floor still up and operational? Any new ... as well): Dropout Design then expanded. Hired a couple of new ... 's a hall) of East Campus called the Disco Dance Floor. Matt blogged

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  at the MIT Club of Greece event. Tuesday The MIT Club of New ... Keller '48. He lived in the Bay Area, was chairman of Chevron Oil at the ... clubs around the world. At last count there are nearly 60 of them, ranging

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Homestuck Day! and advice about college decisions / cpw

  

  identify with. No one at U recognized the Homestuck jacket that I wore ... one night I was at MIT. This is relevant because today is both CPW, MIT's admitted student weekend, and Homestuck Day, 4/13. Check out the new

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  of the friends I made at work were MIT alums, class of 2014 or 2015 ... time on fifth west, and am nervously anticipating the thrill of new ... lot more time on my hands than I was used to. I went to one of those

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  There are no undergraduate classes here at MIT over the summer. Hopefully you already knew that, or at the very least figured it out from all ... old homestead. It’s not a complete “Night of the Comet” (or “28 Days

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  performing all kinds of outrageous intellectual feats at the whims of the ... they could possibly mean. At some point, one of my friends decided to try ... the 31 passages. Combing through "The Eye of Argon" at 3am with two very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  beginning to get the hang of how to be at MIT, how to make the most of the ... memorial drive side of next (waving at random cars until you get the right ... what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  winter. TBS’s new reality show King of the Nerds features two people from ... of a pain. Really? No one at all? Not even your mom? Nope, no one ... . My prof at the time sent me a revised copy of my manuscript that I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013