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• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  every function we write in the class returns a visual output whether that ... was also a bit scared of these classes because I felt that I would feel ... really want to explore it more. And I am really glad I did! This is a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  to Algorithms. Still, I never thought that I would want to do a startup ... The following is a guest post by Sam U. '16   When I applied ... aerospace. From the start, I knew that MIT had a strong culture of computer

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  and Sam's Mom told me that it was coming the week of the 22nd. I think her logic was that she would have time to hide it from me, figuring I was too young and stupid to know what a postmark was. That's probably

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

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  lively murmur and a beat in the background. IAP is one week in. I spent ... I frequent in Santa Fe was once a jail that held Billy the Kid. My ... passed. In the beginning, it was like a full-blown middle-school crush. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  that, post a comment. I'll confer you an honorary degree. ... the first day of classes is Tuesday, YIKES! But I didn't get through IAP without learning a little bit, at least. Let's hop in the Techno

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  had been rejected for a number of opportunities earlier that week, so I ... . Within two days, I found myself in a conference room at the office on the ... interpret them.” My supervisor chuckled when she read that, and I nodded in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  ’t do that with a diet that’s 90% fried chicken!” Either way, there is a ... , because in the end, food is great. I like food, you like food. So let’s get ... ’re probably thinking, “Cooking? I’ve never cooked a day in my life! I could burn

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  . (I want *that* job!) One of the lecturers needs a document camera in ... than I learned in one year of being a student… and I’m not even working ... paired with a mentor in the Boston area to do an original scientific

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  remarks that, Epsilon Theta is a small and close-knit co-ed fraternity. We ... you see fit. Think that wall needs a mural? Want a rope ladder in your ... the year: pika is no different. In the fall we have a major Work Week

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  . How do I know if product management is right for me? I think this is a ... these things in mind, I don't think it is a smart idea to go into the ... product manager is that you wear a lot of different hats. You're going to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  that it is really only one part of your application, and that in a few ... I did, online. But today I decided that was a bad move, so I switched ... now, which is probably better for me since I've taken a lot of chemistry

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  Report et al, I would suspect that your Midyear Report is in your ... ;-- not a real word] before CPW, but the best that we can do is ensure you ... in session, but MIT is not?" This is a good question. It's certainly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  that we'll do lots of case studies this semester too. Even in the first ... Development. I am going to help build a satellite! It is going to space! I am ... ). It's a pretty good gig. My second job is working front desk in my dorm

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  's stomping a mudhole in me. I think the problem is that German I, II, and III ... for a class. I feel so smart just being in a class with that name, to be ... Engineering II -- I found out this weekend that every other school in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  150 in attendance. So I'd booked a room that holds 150+ and figured ... interesting. :-) In a nutshell, I'd had trouble getting in touch with the ... parking garage steps from the meeting location, and the campus is in a good

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  actually did. Here's how: First, I wrote a crude but effective scraper in ... line to a text file. Then, I cobbled together a tweet generator in Ruby ... learn. In making @mitblogs_ebooks, I learned a lot, and sometimes the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  far away.  That is, it is about a mile and a half down Massachusetts Avenue (living in East Campus, the closest dorm to classes, we have a really bad sense of what is near and far from us).  But today is a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  let’s talk about financial aid a different kind of holiday miracle

  

  MIT "set aside" a certain amount of money for me to eat. Now that I'm in ... tuition at a four-year university is 2-3x what my family makes in a year ... as I could, and hoped that even just one would let me in, and very very

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  cannon, but with a firing range. In order to do that, though, we needed a ... before, I come from a small town in the woods, a place where people generally agree that almost anything can be improved if it is shot out of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  , and so I randomly rank classes that happen to fit in with the rest of my ... ’t consider myself to be a terrible ice skater, but I was pretty bad in the ... taking measurements of toxic algae concentrations while you’re on a boat in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006