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• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  middle of the road to figure things out. I stopped where I was, in the ... – like, 5AM late – talking to students on Saturday night of CPW. When I ... . Dead phones can't make noises. But a concerned person can. I woke up to someone

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update We plan to release Early Action decisions on Monday, 12/15.

  

  copy of that email here. We'll have more details on the decisions in the days to come; thanks for your patience. In related news, I can announce ... . Here is a chart of EA application landmarks over time: In 1982-83, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  since I started this awful, misguided experiment in temporary ... did a pretty good production of As You Like It, but I must confess that ... of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. Really! I actually studied Hamlet fairly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  . During my overnight stay in Milan, I travelled the roads of time to meet ... can be heard on tracks of Beck's Odelay album). And during the late 1800 ... Ponchielli's La Gioconda. In his later years, Arrigo served as director of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  Sorry I haven't blogged in a while -- I've been hosed with the deluge ... buddy Tiffany, a Course I junior with a terrifyingly robust sense of work ... involvement in international development @ MIT. Enjoy! In the grind of the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  ambiance and the kinds of people I saw wandering around (you can recognize ... of portraits of the 67 individual resident physicists. Each poses in ... Dirac Medallist smiles awkwardly in front of an innocuous upside

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  suppose. I can’t speak for any of the other languages taught here at MIT ... properly pronounce the rolled “rr”. I can’t for the life of me figure it out ... García Márquez entirely in its native language of Spanish: Crónica de una

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  who are struggling extraordinarily well, and some of us (at least I hope ... series by Orson Scott Card.  Unlike many of the MIT students that I know, I ... As you can see, the area in Lobby 7 that was normally cut off due to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email ... as you can often see in movies but i'm a steady person. I'm not a guy ... course will end in a couple of weeks time?" Yes, that is fine. You can fax

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  feel like: So I just made a vlog to get back in the rhythm of filming ... from the bottom. And because I didn't talk about anything MIT-related in ... Thanksgiving, making it impossible to attend all of them), I'll go into a couple

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  to get these. All I have to do is live in my dorm. I can handle that. I ... I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to ... commitments on Tuesday nights will be able to take advantage of them. I will

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  in Baker, my first year, I got to know a collection of 8 people ... In the first installment of "Making the Switch," Melissa '11 asked ... temporary dorm in Baker House, and I walk into my quad. And now for an

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  either. I filled in the conducted interview form a couple of days ago after ... math evaluation which I made sure to be sent in the early weeks of ... send in TOEFL instead of or in addition to SAT I without any adverse

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  familiar with Redux Toolkit, I can now think in the level of "do some action ... 't know, and the possibility of more unknown unknowns, and I can understand ... in the level of words. Bob has more experience. He can listen to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year ... like. I didn’t visit many colleges outside of my local area in high ... that I would feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of STEM in comparison

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the ... ,[/annotation] I can tell you that I was nauseous once, too. But as a self ... of anything Stanford related. I left it to her to decide why, exactly

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  same time, I was in school studying math and computer science. I am more interested in the math side of things, how physical systems make order. But I ... coral or fractal growth pattern of the veins in a leaf. After taking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  (minus Bexley…), and participated in more events than I can keep track of. It was truly the most fun I had had in a long time (especially ... at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  wrath of the shop guys, or a drop in their grades. I can guarantee that ... you can use your imagination, and I'll just describe some of the other ... selection of electives within their major. I can't think of any other notably

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  topic of affirmative action in college admissions; however, I'll say right ... I fit in ethnically at MIT. I've never really felt out of place, or ... So one of the questions that I am frequently asked my prospective

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006