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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  Lightning Talks" for our admitted students and parents. Nine faculty members ... Economics Has rising trade integration between the U.S. and China contributed ... emerging technologies reinvent and create connections between people

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  opportunity to try something different, and it's worked very well for me. I ... and have it here in Boston, so we also looked for places with parking. (Parking for resident students on campus is something like $700/year, and it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  sciencey things and learning cooler sciencey things and getting paid for it ... This weekend marks the notable milestone where, for the first time in ... hands for a research job. I have a UROP (Undergraduate Research

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  their own thing” and know that it's good for you to do the same. It’s the best way for them to figure out if they are comfortable and at home on our campus and the best way for you to be comfortable with them being

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  type. The door is at the optimal angle between slightly ajar and fully ... course 16 advisor for the first time and expressed my abject terror at ... of the time, and proceeding to sit down for a whole two hours and

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  prerequisites. Anyway, apparently the lecture halls for this class and 18.404, the ... -register for this class but my friends Athena and Alexis were taking it, so I ... minutes, so I just went to Hayden and wrote admissions blog posts for an

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  upper MG (middle grade; for ages 8-12) contemporary fantasy novel. During ... Period, but then my friends and I teamed up for the web programming ... submission in early April. And a week later, Penny asked me for my schedule

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  and I told him that for once in my time at MIT, I want to be good at ... for not being good enough, for not being smart enough and putting in the ...   work culture and blame MIT for my stupidity. Then, there are days where I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  “what’s happening this semester” post and explain what’s new for this year ... foot, and I eventually couldn’t walk anymore. I went to MIT medical for three days, deciding that the wait was too long for the first two days and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  selected us for a big two-minute (and fairly sleepy) final presentation, and ... mailing lists asking for people to join us, and by the next week we ... method for measuring distance), and the Arduino connected to a more

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  note="we meet 3 times a week for 2 hours during the semester and like 20 ... and HATED myself five times. I attended 14 exec team meetings for ... "]McCormick[/annotation] Penthouse to brainstorm ideas for our show in February, and Bomber Formal

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  for shirataki noodles! I snuck in vegies in my dinners! And I actually ... . My parents, in all their fear and love, were always there for me in ... during our freshman spring break, and we didn’t adequately plan for it. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  for Biotechnology and Neuroscience, 10am-1pm. Next up is 9.24 Disorders ... .g. malaria—we know how people get it and how it works). So, for the non ... " problem sets for the class). The professor for 9.26 Principles and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  of us in space! 2) Tickets for the Vessel, Come from Away, and the ... from when we ordered chemistry and shoe shaped cookie cutters for our ... for a club event 12) Danny's externship certificate of completion, name

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  we see the same needs for change, and over time we’ve gotten better at ... and work-life balance were all well and good, for other people. I still ... to work harder. I am beginning to see a parallel between work and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  . For example, there's only one front desk. At the same time, Conner 2 and ... courtyard in between. (EC consists of 2 parallels, east and west, so that 3rd ... Responses to comments: Edward: Hey, thank you for answering my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  not tricycles, for extra stability and a flair of whimsy? Become the ... it's not as convenient as I think when I have to lug it around between classes. I don't want to fork over cash for an electric scooter or a bike

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  NAND flash device. The controller sits between the filesystem and the ... and 2 labs will do that). So...I thought I'd take the easy way out, by ... about the Therac-25, the X Windows System, multi-threading, and a couple

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  . “You know, 14. Right between 2 and 50. Doesn’t everyone know this stuff?” ... giveaway that the person you’re talking to has been fully and wholeheartedly immersed in the MIT culture. I am certainly a full-blooded MIT student, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  of Gender and Race) illustrated this point pretty well for me. The ... whom I know here got deferred EA and then got in. Eventually, those of you who get in will get to come to CPW. And some of you might have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006