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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  way to being wise, a tree feeling stuck in one place, a tadpole coming ... initiative is beginning to bear fruit in the form of scholarly research ... 'm currently at nerd camp, but anytime the blogs go unblogged for too long, I get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  well. We want to see that students are involved in things because they ... As much as we love formulas, you're not going to find one here! We get a lot of requests from students asking what their chances of
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  carpet to match with my roommate, which in hindsight was not the best ... that I’d have to unpack in just four months. Instead, I focused my energy ... design class I took to get them printed. But given that there's only a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  him explaining the profundity of anaphase in mitosis. I listened to ... note: if you’re ever in an exam and you don’t know the answer to a ... frantically tried to explain it to us in the remaining minutes of class (good

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  . Here in Part 2, I've analyzed the remaining four games, hoping to gain more ... select 5 integers in the range 1 to 50, inclusive. For each integer k you ... three rounds, the rankings are combined to get a final score, calculated

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  just wanted to talk to my mom about putting me in a gifted program ... volunteered to help out the following year. (You know how it is, when you're in ... about 3 weeks ago) to get straight A's, but despised every minute of AP

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  in the last two weeks, i've been invited to two parties in the bay ... group text with all the other company interns in the bay. it was a link to ... , because apparently everyone has to be a founder in this party. when i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Weekend Immersion in Science & Engineering?

  WISE (Weekend Immersion in Science and Engineering) is a three-day experience for rising seniors to learn what it is like to be an MIT student. The program is completely free, including the cost of transportation to
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... jumped in to the kid's defense and started roundhouse kicking those bikers ... make a reference to the scene in Veronica Mars where Logan was attacked

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  packing my bags, begrudgingly all-nightered to get all my items stored away ... and didn’t find written words to be the best medium to get them out, so ... own archives and emailed out to all ec residents for contributions. in

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  puzzled again? a little puzzle for the class of '09

  

  So this week, each day of Orientation, the students have been getting a group of scavenger hunt questions to solve, and today they get to solve mine. This blog is supposed to have a question on it, so I'll make

  • by Bryan
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  independent country, and, in the process, to create a pretty awesome place for ... because it pretty much entails every dorm trying to show off its culture in ... problems, applied instead to having the most fun in the most creative way

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  really fit in at MIT? I attended CPW hoping to find the answer to this ... an ungodly hour for me to still be awake. When I have three tests in one week in addition to psets that need to be completed, I want

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  classes to get into an in-state school. Believe it or not, AP mania hasn ... ran 45 miles a week to get in shape for cross-country. I swam and dove ... , just to see what's happening in the exciting world of high schoolers and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  athletics at MIT in order to share with attendees what I believe to be the ... , How I Came To Own and Love A 'Wagon For The Little Old Lady Who Lived In ... you hundreds, perhaps thousands, on labor) to get checked out. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  of MIT to set up. I understand that a lot of people get a lot out of ... exists in and around MIT knows that there’s always so much pressure to be ... expectation that seems like it’s almost designed to breed guilt in students who

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ST PATRICKS DAY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  

  gets done, but you worry some, I know But who wants to live forever, babe ... HOZIER, KING OF IRELAND, IS HERE TO SPEAK:  It can't be said I'm an early ... sleep so well? You keep telling me to live rightTo go to bed before the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  Cormick, the dorm I live in. There, Anuhya '14 used her mad design skills to ... As you might have read in my last entry, I had a 6.046 (Design and ... , post-6.046 exam. I know that before I came to MIT, my impression of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  . Adelaide sits on the floor in the hallway to strap on her heels. Adelaide is ... a huge part of the undergrad tradition at MIT. Getting your "brass rat ... creates its own design specific to your class year. Then they reveal the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  your major's requirements. However, if you want to major in engineering ... Harvard is B+/A- centered.) There is pressure to get good grades, but you ... repeat, do NOT put yourself though being pre-med if you only want to hang

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006