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• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  the horrifying discovery of what "windchill" is. This year however, is a ... the technical aspects of many different wintersports, such as: Hiking ... over the weekend, where you can visit one of MITOCs two New Hampshire

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  Gregor, which had a beautiful view of the rain pummeling the Charles River and ... , double-canopy umbrella. It was, according to Amazon, the BMW of umbrellas ... chocolate at La Verde’s on the last day of CPW. I encourage you to do the same

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  since the second term of freshman year. Of course, I have by now missed my ... while watching the turtles at the pond where I’m working. I am jealous of ... focus on physics tonight. 6:15 — Dinner begins with the ringing of the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  ’re notified of whether you have a spot in that class are subject to the whim of ... to take their class through an [annotation note="the anxiety of writing ... wouldn’t have known to ask.  1. Ask the prof to save you a seat ahead of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  problems at the end of this post, and if you enjoy Mike’s writing you should ... type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT ... of the people there. Mostly my fellow physics majors. Because math

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  Education Arcade. I just found that I really liked the environment of the ... to trivia games. Here is one of the design exercises I made for the ... the event coordinators on the progress of each group! It's a good time

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  War II and deepened by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia ... to Chicago in 1996, when I was almost four. Most of the stories from ... she wasn’t invited to my house, but the jumble of Russian-English that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  (to you, dear reader), because Sam was basically the coolest blogger of ... Awkward" has been murdered, and we've been charged with the task of figuring ... "little black book" with lots of contacts in it. We've got to solve the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  'll focus super-hard on all the other pieces of your application. No worries ... a bit of all three. But the numbers all point in one direction: you ... I almost forgot: for you regular action folks, the deadline to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for November Reflect, rewrite, repeat

  

  A lot of the people reading this have probably spent the past two ... [/annotation]. A lot of the people reading this are probably starting on their Common ... you successfully do what the subtitle of this post says, we have curated

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choose my Halloween Costume!

  

  though I dressed as a witch like 5 times between the ages of 3 and 8 ... other ideas, or how on Earth I can pull any of these off within the next ... Okay guys, here's the deal...Halloween is quickly approaching, and I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  leave the entire contents of their shower onto the part of the floor ... the drain to make you think they'd shaved a small cow. Perhaps worst of ... . The morning finals began, specifically on the morning of my 8.01 final

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Getting MISTI-fied There's a loud boom coming from Lobby 10.

  

  the beauty of free food and bhangra. Word. ... So on my way back from my BE.370 recitation, walking down the ... discovered that not only was there the booming, there was FREE FOOD. Cue the

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next administration's agenda ... , and, worst of all, undermining each other in the quest to gain ... right-hand corner of the page. – Find the "Social Entrepreneurship

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  the curriculum of the university: worked on syllabus design, reading ... , and sea freight. The city: Berlin is a huge city full of culture ... Xerox (India).  Sara Hernandez Class of 2015 MIT-India Program

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  obtained to relieve me of the MIT firehose-induced famine. In truth, I've been eating well, and the schoolwork hasn't affected any of my habits ... hours straight, and there were no signs of the downpour letting up. I put

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And term starts again…

  

  couple of weeks. In the meantime, I'll entertain you with a list of my ... /statistics class. 9.71 (Functional MRI of High-Level Vision) Basics of fMRI, the strengths and limitations of fMRI compared to other techniques, and the design

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  time of the semester when [insert vague statement about being hosed].” I ... , and the conversation carries on. If the rules of the game aren’t being ... sentiment by saying something along the lines of “Honestly, it makes a lot of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  released, which defeats at least half the purpose of the whole form. And ... fill it out? As soon as possible after completion of the fall semester ... similar to the Self-Reported Coursework Form from the Part 2 of the

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  of dirty laundry. I print out my p-sets for the week. While I’m at it I ... ’m running out of socks. I spend an hour picking out socks on the Internet. I ... something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011