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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week of work

  

  Continuous Random Variables. For all that, though...I felt a little bogged ... Last week was one of those weeks where I had either a test or ... if by correcting our mistakes. It's a nice feature. Tuesday: I had a 7

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  engineering school where people do / there's a good environment for startups ... respect for, because they seem to conflate giving a pep talk and a pamphlet ... a pre-requisite for entering the program, was the idea that you could

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a week in europe pictures of munich, vienna, amsterdam

  

  for just one week and breathe a different kind of air. it's almost ... for two years: briggs field, flat and green and fine but boring. the sun ... i sigh and sit down and maybe drink a calpico and finish them. i look

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  ????" Admissions blogging is a pretty new thing for me, so please don't be ... were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu ... optimization. I live in East Campus with a ginger cat named Reese, who takes his

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  awesome events and have had a chance to collapse and sleep for the first ... include my oh-so-awesome CPW event? Oh right, I'm a blogger. So here it is ... challenge to you: Eat free food. Find a hack somewhere on campus Build

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  Three hallmates and I piled into a Zipcar the other night for a trip to a warehouse club in the area. The house manager just delivered a ... rent the car for two hours and split the cost between four people. I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  before about FIRST, which was a transformational experience for me as a high school student, and which I have been involved with as a student ... If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year(s) before enrolling at MIT (for a gap year, military service, or other reason ... joined by Christina J, a junior from SoCal. The event (exclusively for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  So a few days before Halloween I asked you all what I should be for ... walked around campus for a few hours feeling like the coolest person in the ... my dorm just in time for the big day. I dug around in my closet for the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  matching you with an MIT student host for CPW. With a record number of you expected for CPW, and a large portion of the campus hoping to serve as a host ... don't, don't worry -- I assure you we have a host for you. CPW invades

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  for the occasion. More swanky formalwear... at left, Dan '03, a team captain, dressed up for the occasion. At right, Chris Morse, a three ... CAN BE EATEN is a clue for EDIBLE. These are the cookies: (C

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  let you guys know about a competition that she and fellow MIT undergrads Jennifer Sim and Di Ye have organized: Introducing a great opportunity for ... we are inviting YOU to be a part of it! THINK (Technology for Humanity

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  , check back in a few for some more a more impressive sketching of my life ... It's been hectic for past few days; I had my first German vocabulary test yesterday and I had to learn like ein bazillion words for that, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  MIT. When this happened our system creates two records for a single individual ... Based on a high volume of document submissions generated by my previous post, we are now extending the deadline for submission of missing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  MIT, this is a problem I wrestled for a while.  And I've learned that it ... winter break for a few days of ice climbing.  Temperatures dropped to ... .  Look, there's a reason I'm writing for MIT Admissions and not Vogue

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a zookeeper described as being the size of a stick of butter. Like a number of ... , delighting a contingent of residents who'd spent the past year campaigning for

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  taking a crash course in conversational German in preparation for a trip I ... to indicate your level of understanding. For example, I'd say I have a ... The other day my roommate and I decided that there was a flaw in the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  for a small instead of a tall? SMALL IS A RELATIVE TERM, mmmk?) Let ... To take a leaf out of Sam's book: DID YOU KNOW? Charlotte/Douglas International Airport has a scale model of the Wright Brothers plane hanging from

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  , GA, will head off to Dartmouth for a Ph.D program next year. As an ... , one of the few MIT microbiology labs, for one and a half years. She says ... and that bacteria allow for easier scalability of a process.”

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  how every single point was accounted for. Regrade requests: If a ... using the regrade request feature quite a bit. My pset buddy for 6 ... either full points or increased partial credit for a given question. The

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020