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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pulse 2011 [by Nathan Kipniss '14] A lot of talent under one roof!

  

  energy came through in Rambax’s performance. I loved that spoken ... [by Nathan Kipniss '14] Last Friday I went to Pulse: “Our ... quality!) I was taking African Music this semester (21M.293, to those who

  • by ARTalk
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  Design and Manufacturing I (2.007 in nerd-speak) involves two ... challenge that can always be met. In his lectures, he starts with a problem ... favorite guest lectures. I thought I'd share his background and some of his

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  about the school that I’ll be attending in just a few short months. My CPW story can be summed up in three pictures. Friendship: From R to L ... ;class="photo"> Um… Speaking of pictures, I apologize in advance for the poor quality

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  soda can holder things. In fact, I got a bunch of free stuff that I wasn’t even looking for. Besides the two soda can holders, I was given a ... I experienced at CPW was just amazing. How can one compare an MIT

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  cw: suicide ment in lyrics if you'd had told me a year ago that i ... whatever. Dancing, singing, playing games. In a way, it's no surprise that I ... of me that honestly regrets not pursuing media earlier in life. Had I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  again! I can't say I regret the intensity of the emotions I experienced in ... During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free ... ! In this post, I briefly summarize each week of course material and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  scherzi.    I can’t listen to Paganini’s Caprice No. 24 anymore. In ... poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high ... behind silver and gold no one can see   I am from memories

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  I can remember, back when I was applying to MIT, there were two huge ... used their address. I used Gmail so I'd just go to Gmail.com and log in ... type a couple of commands, which I detail in the next video. There you

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  unlike any other school in the world. As a freshman, you can work in the ... finally meet a lot of you. You are all awesome and I can't wait to see your ... , Bryan's blog is way more thorough than I can ever hope to be, so check it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  I have known for some time that my approach to things can be ... have so much more life experience than my kids have and I can envision ... the things that I most enjoy about my work in the admissions office is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  other things to do, and when I got back to the room around 12:30 in the ... So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several fairly reasonable restrictions, and my roommate and I decided to take full

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  this year. Q. I'm not a super-genius. Can I still survive at MIT? A ... Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the College Confidential message boards), I've noticed an abundance of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  application, which I barely remember anymore - occurred via a link in the blog comments to a post in some older blog y'all don't know about, when I was so ... key. The tube was by my front door. I missed it on my way in to find the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  I'm going through my in-box today, taking care of some long ... , and I decided to wait until now instead of posting it in June - this ... professors that I have something to offer... when in fact I'm not sure I have

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  , they're mailing regular decisions out tomorrow! I can feel you shivering ... like, two-thirds of the way up the block, and I was pretty dumb in high ... . Anyway, she didn't really say anything, when I walked in, but merely thrust

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  . I was taking a bath (not really sure why this detail sticks in mind ... accused me of witchcraft, I was a sophomore in High School, tutoring a seven ... . I was getting a tuberculosis skin test, which I needed in order to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  In middle school, I repeatedly listened to Lupe Fiasco's hit singles ... out of Arizona/the only one who can save me is Rona," I riffed ... check if Lupe was in his office. I went to the fourth floor of building 14

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  volts - he blogged about it in one of his entries, but I can't find it cuz ... - sorry I can't find a public domain pic that I can post). In very much the ... playing in the background to keep from falling asleep), I completed my epic

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  with 100 dimples hemispherically embedded with radius 3mm, I can help you ... -tesselating backgrounds should stay non-tesselating. I don't know if you can read that tiny ... website, and you can tell they're serious because the text is red. Psh I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  ! (Also, I clearly couldn't bear to put anything in the F tier lol. That ... love languages, and I tested into Spanish 4 because of my AP scores in ... .  Differential Equations (18.03) → Rank C Chill class in terms of grading, but I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025