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• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make ... hallway lined with air mattresses for catnappers, and throw in a bunch of ... ...all sandboxes for building castles. Put them all together, slap on a deadline, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  study for math, although I never mastered studying for physics.  Physics ... myself for doing the best I could. I also learned that HASS (Humanities ... and it was really interesting.  For the first half of the semester

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  advertisement: In other words, there's something for everyone. - From 10:30am ... Virus by Professor Mnookin, for example, or The Field Guide to Science ... this time of year, it could be mistaken for a painting of the snow

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  taken some photos for you guys to see these machines :( But this just ... we're talking about. Training's actually pretty cool! For the Edgerton ... part. Edge-finding! Woo! Next, we drilled a couple concentric holes for

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  slew of internships I applied for, a strange idea popped into my mind ... ’m working for the organization that was responsible for teaching me English ... trying to do the same for K-12. My role in all of this is mostly marketing

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  . Manalis, I know you probably didn't mean for it to be so mean. He and Prof. Han are pretty nice people and have co-taught this class for six years ... for that lil' step function when he did so stinkin' much for physics and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  weather; for me, it was either really cold from head to toe or very warm up ... to watch out for rainstorms in the spring (or any time, for that matter ... people eagerly await the arrival of spring not for the weather, but for

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  (Source: leslieland.com) Man, I feel excited for you guys! *Wipes ... don’t remember much what happened during my Pi day; I think I went for ... . That would be some story) Anyway, I just want to say this: Thank you for

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  sealer for a local rice micro-enterprise in Brisas del Mar; and designing solar driers for family harvests and testing water in El Benque. January ... continue with the back-breaking process. Their yuca mill has been broken for

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  "submit" as the January 1 deadline came and went. For some the wait is over, while for others it has just begun. In the admissions office, we are ... limited availability relative to the significant demand, for the exceptional

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  . Because for the first time in our lives perhaps, there is very little ... - but for what? Or work - in which specific industry? Gap year - will it ... but be influenced by the people we care about. Parents, for one, is on

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  pursuing a career as a filmmaker. It was a proud moment for him, and for me his mom, when he won second place in a local filmmaking competition for ... my gender. His film “Other” is about a very important topic for a lot

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  for lab stamina though. Sleep is magical. 3. Don't know something? Ask for help. I've asked so many questions at lab that I've probably driven ... you speak. While asking questions is great, thinking for yourself has

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  is, unless you aren't looking for flexibility), then you're in luck. If ... 's twice as old as the United States. If I could massively overgeneralize for ... respect for tradition and history, whereas the latter is more concerned with

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  of events for August, Boston has been graced with cloudy skies ... Freshman Pre-Orientation Program, and was so excited to explore MIT for a ... saving time for last-minute decisions. Oh, and grab tons of free food. It

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  described my lessons from the National Conference for College Women Student ... population, I never felt different for being a female engineer. In fact ... graduation ceremony for the GEL class of 2010 took place. It was encouraging to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  spent most of the last week working on stuff for Campus Preview Weekend, including how to make it more accessible for the students who attend. One ... 25% to the undergraduate population for the weekend they're here. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  expenditures for 4.111 materials will be manageable as I can no longer depend on the parental units for feeding this creative money-sucker habit of art ... following is a crop of the syllabus we got for studio this semester. The

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  Vermont and New Hampshire. In Vermont, for instance, I lived in the ... furthest south I've ever lived (except for one year I spent as an undergrad ... winter. You have to know how to dress for the cold. A few simple rules

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update: App Tracking & More All of the mail has been processed, and MyMIT Application Tracking is up-to-date.

  

  for EA applicants; the current status of your application is now shown ... a good time for you to check up on the status of your application ... for you. We should have the following: Application Part 1, Application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2009