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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  , something especially appreciated at an institution notorious for being one of ... simultaneously is a blessing and a curse -- it takes the pressure off of work much ... Boston roughly once a month to go out and eat and explore the city. But

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  This past weekend was the legendary Campus Preview Weekend at MIT and ... went.) I was instantly stunned by the campus and the intriguing ... getting settled in my host's dorm at New House 2, I was pumped and ready to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  's something to write about on a very cold rainy day, and b) I have some really ... and solve problems. Although a lot has changed since White was a grad ... takes away from the Institute. Hence tests. In Laura's entry, Eric asked

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  semester on scripting, modeling, and lighting in Maya. MIT doesn’t offer ... to decide whether to stay in our current major, 21E Humanities and ... math, we’d most likely spend close to 40 hours on 031. And spend close

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  first president born in the United States and the only president to speak ... Protobowl, going down Wikipedia rabbit holes, and playing Sporcle quizzes. I have a lifelong goal of trying to make it onto Jeopardy, and so I view

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  , I looked into my internal state, and I found...calm. My troubles hadn ... while, and in the sense that I haven't really been engaging in self-reflection at all this summer. Usually, when things go wrong—and things have been

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  life and the universe instead of vector cross products and tumor ... Fridays are sneaky. Theoretically, as the last day of the week and the only thing standing between you and two glorious days of freedom and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  . Thanks to those of you who read and commented! I then realized I shouldn ... of various skills and abilities, freshmen ranked themselves most ... Education Director), and Professor Ed Crawley (GEL Co-Director) about their

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  the eggs and each egg reached maturity, it would take only three years ... 3, 2006. ""At this point 29 percent of fish and seafood species have ... clear trend, and it is accelerating. If the long-term trend continues, all

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  and upperclassmen, and to get a feel for what MIT has to offer socially ... first day of classes, and the first meeting of CMS.614/21W.791 Network ... , REX is the perfect time to explore MIT's dorms and pick the place whose

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  year, it's been announced with more and more fanfare every year. This ... pies and heaves one at the blogger. In even more gratuitiously slow ... cameras were grainy, the sun kept moving behind clouds, and we had no idea

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical ... thinking and processes that can be used to mass manufacture products. As an ... childhood memories... and decided to make a yo-yo based on the 1996 movie

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  could offer and it's been so much more. There have been three aspects to ... admins, networks better than the IT department and operating systems better than the people who wrote them" - Dan T. '85 (my boss) I chuckled and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.

  

  available today at 6:28 p.m. (Deep breath) Please don't be crazy and click refresh 200 times in a minute. You might get carpal tunnel! And you'll crush the server. And Labs will get fired. :-(   Ok, here

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 14, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  obsessive map-scanning, and the free stuff-hoarding, but there's still plenty of the sleep loss, the mingling with prefrosh, and the unreserved ... place so far, which is okay because I'm a host and not obligated to be

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to campus in less than two minutes and once lived in Africa and is actually named Sylvester and pretends to be Stephen Hawking on weekends

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  'm here to do is tell you about life at MIT. Selection's all over and the ... * -- and I'm here thinking about how awesome CPW's going to be next month. I can't wait to meet you all, really! French class is a lot of fun, and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  internship. I finished my internship with Microsoft this past summer and got a shiny new return offer to go back and work on Minecraft next summer. Yes ... Well hello there it's been a while and I'm am ridden with guilt and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  between points and lines that Andi alluded to in his post on duality (though ... for MITAdmissions Math Month, and thusly there will be some math. And ... material I learned (and still love) from the UROP I did the summer after my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  has a good penguin department and idk maybe I’ll major in that not ... deaths A few state schools, two or three smaller colleges, maybe MIT ... write about something that gives a good sense of who I am and what I value

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019