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• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  ways I am able to support my spending habit. I have a theory that ... good. I have a propensity to see something expensive, want it, and buy it ... right. I checked the reviews and the XS turned out to be a sweet camera

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Instructions on how to receive your decision online.

  

  decision online, you will need to have registered for a MyMIT account and you ... do not wish to receive your decision online, you'll want to take a ... Hi folks, I'm pleased to let you know that we're on schedule to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  to follow up by mailing a fee waiver to us. Q: I am taking my tests ... be able to consider you during Early Action (just a few weeks later) if ... complete and you did not match to a binding school. If you take MIT off your

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  , paradoxically, become a rather depressing pastime of mine. Sometimes, it's fun to vanish into a world somewhat tangential to reality, somewhat well ... strongly depend on the moral measure of intuition to arrive at a solution

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  -the-waitlistee) '10, who asked, How many hours a week did you/do you dedicate to ... did cheerleading, because I got to have fun with a great group of people ... inclined to waste time on the internet. A blatant plug for cheerleading An

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  seriously a lot of fun. First of all, I finally got to meet Alia and Mike, who are super awesome. They were really a lot of fun to hang out with between phone calls. Plus, I got to talk to a bunch of the newly admitted

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  experience, once I decided if I wanted to get a medium or a large. I’d only ... them.” It was a bit scary, a bit odd, and took some imagination to see ... , the frats seemed to send out a few guys into the foray of frosh to find

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  Vegas. I had the chance earlier to go to CES but I passed on it. A group ... to spend the money. I didn't realize how big of a deal CES was. Then I ... really about to spend the money to book a flight to Vegas to go to CES in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  one if i had to write a literary analysis on my blog posts, i'd talk ... 't) want to be alone. two in a season of secondhand joy, i talked about how ... go to a fifth, last sunday night. i arrived in the room a few minutes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  weeks, I went from programming a button to turn on a light, to designing and building a robot that could learn to recognize people’s voices. And ... circuit”. Feel free to skip this section, but click this block to read a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  from around the globe. Over a 24-hour period from September 17th to 18th ... .org to register. There is a randomized lottery to get in, but if you want ... binary to hex code that also just so happens to be a URL, writing Python

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  moment, like a lot of the shit Trump is constantly trying to pull, whether ... learn to be pseudo-law students by writing case briefs. A good friend of ... write a really great paper. We're hoping to get it published somewhere if

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little time helping to set expectations for the weekend. Because CPW is such a ... it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  students to take advanced classes out of a sense of competition, rather than ... school or working 20-30 hours a week to support their family – or who come ... students to worry less about this question. Half a century ago, B. Alden

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Incoming freshmen, come to the Activities Midway tomorrow! Find a group where you can continue your hobbies and try something new.

  

  Kesem table (#125) to meet my fellow counselors. For a list of groups ... assignments. If you want to see a clearer map, click here. ... service? Want to get involved with these activities at MIT? Then, come to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  Avenue Saturday (avec Sam): a lunch in Chinatown a visit to Trump Tower ... Square a return to Chinatown, where I bid Sam farewell Special thanks to ... To make up for the apparently unlucky (but ultimately normal) Friday

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  to Physics majors, it's not a strict major requirement unless you’re an ... devoting to this class on a weekly basis. The majority of MIT classes are 12 ... pick lab partners A pendulum experiment to measure the gravitational

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  love with a problem and wanting to do something about it. Most people ... extreme poverty up close. On a trip to Zambia, he became amazed at how clean ... on the path to starting Water.org, with a brilliant civil engineer

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  Spencer '07 in a 654-seat theater. That's a lot of seats. Now, I have to ... countless times, I feel in a unique position to evaluate a movie about an ... and runs off to live with her schoolteacher. Count Dooku does do a great

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  quite a bit of experience with Medical due to my training as a Medlink; so ... for a single student. Last August, my family elected to not put me on ... joint student-parent discussion, we added a parent’s voice to this entry

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008