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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... Thursday I can be found sprinting across Killian Court to get to poetry on ... --swell to life in the imagination. I've been posting my favorite poems from

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

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  available. I hope this is somewhat helpful to those of you in the homeschool ... 'd recommend bookmarking that page, and not this entry. But this should get the ... our community. Over the past 5-10 years, we have seen a surge in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  one, except jump really high. My family used to have one in our backyard ... set and are MAD expensive. I also need to confirm that getting a ... was passed to get an ice cream machine for Simmons, but the plumbing to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  . Literally dozens of opportunities for you to explore new research or get a job ... class gets you to really absorb is how differently real-life situations ... professor. This is a class I’m particularly glad to get because I tried taking

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  that, in the footer to each email, we include a line explaining to the ... from one list to the other, in this case from the admit list to the ... it too, in part because of me, I'm so, so sorry. If you want to talk

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  ’s this tendency at MIT to start making summer plans all the way back in ... getting ready to send off their MISTI applications. And it made sense too ... year, I wanted to spend my three months back in Texas. I looked forward

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  work space in the intro architecture studio to find this: This is ... -related anything is the sheer range of supplies you get to use! Although all of the ... regular floor plan of our lecture space, just to get acquainted with

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  couldn’t get myself to blog about because staring at screens hurts. So here ... Designers, this semester and I’ve been very grateful to have scheduled time in ... chance to say goodbye to in Cambridge when we left campus. Here’s a list of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  me. I may post some photos in a future entry. Anyway, I will get to the ... going to get to every question today. Amy wrote, "I saw people carrying boxes of Chinese food during CPW. Is there a place on campus to get this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• 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 ... "sweet italian sausage" in 95 C water to cook it to an internal temperature

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

  BoA & Restricting

  

  getting mixed messages about this. We say in the application, "Please keep to a 500-word limit." Kevin says in his blog that 650 words is okay ... application. Also, I am not going to count the words in your essay. I have never

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  holiday in October. To celebrate the year's start (and because I'm lazy), I ... .100, Aerodynamics. Although this class is going to be a time sink (Adam walked in ... just switched to Course 9 from Course 5, which in my humble opinion was a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  CPW was so much fun! I meant to get this blog up and running ... I entered MIT, I had no idea I'd get as invested in building things as ... my work is needed to get it done, and that I can depend on everyone to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  To those of you who sent in your early apps - congrats! You're done ... 't worry - you're not missing out): 0% of people who do not apply to MIT get ... like science? You do well in school? SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE WHO APPLIES TO

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  enough to get some solos in Fugues songs last year, and when I did, I found ... hang out with new people in my department. When it comes down to it, I ... again, without a need for always trying to better oneself — in essence

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  also give talks in class, and get lots of individualized feedback to ... faculty in 1997, and prior to that was a faculty member at UCLA and Harvard ... Research Award. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  apartment that she was to live in for the next three months. It’s nothing like ... in my UROP lab around 7:30pm. My worst day was an 8:30am to 8:30pm ... parentheses in this post, but I’m going to roll with it: the new season of Top

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  possible are worlds i will be happy living in, and i can maneuver so to make ... offered me a return offer and i accepted it. i asked to work in the new york ... world i could've gone back to work in san francisco. in another world i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary ... chance before early applications to get my best possible score on each, so

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  came, so she drove to school to give her the tube. Kris '10 and I were in ... going on? WERE WE IN OR NOT? Needless to say, everything our teacher said ... understand that you can use it in desperate situations to break into things

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006