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• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation ... to be taking over MIT's campus in five days. You may have heard of it ... but a pale imitation of the truth - valorous but vain attempts to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  For a lot of you (maybe not all), interning over the summer will be ... to the "freedoms" of college life.  As exciting as these summer ... post-graduation fun. Of course you will have a supervisor to ask

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  Honestly, I think if you ask anyone at MIT, there is something of a ... me long time to learn all of these new subjects at MIT." It is more of a general statement that sort of goes under the idea that you are now

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  sister of my friend Martín. (Their family used to live in Madrid when they were kids. Their parents moved with them to the US, but 3 of the 4 ... was in most of my classes in high school (Spanish included), and even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  - on both sides of the equation. I apologize to those of you who think ... " will get something out of it. Others won't, no matter what I say here. That makes me sad, but I can live with it, thanks to the rest of you

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  uninformed, this means that I 1) live on the third floor of the Burton side of the dorm Burton-Conner, and 2), am lowkey part of a cult—a rowdy ... ="aligncenter" width="535"] bombers class of '20 yearbook photo[/caption] When I tell

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  of major in the comments. If you offer to bring me cookies at CPW, I ... (COUGHMITCOUGH), which, I mean, is a kind of a big deal and will in fact influence the rest of your life. No pressure or anything. I will weigh in with how

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  For most of my life before coming to MIT, I had been really into drawing [annotation note="there was a lot of… naruto though"]all sorts of things.[/annotation] I had sketchbooks full of Digimon I’d made up when I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  Project Lab. From 1965, Minor White (a close friend of Ansel Adams) taught ... an inspiration to students, and one of them Charles Fendrock ‘ ... a number of extremely talented photographers ( Hi, Lulu. ;-) ). With

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  I've had dial-up internet for as long as I can remember. One of the ... campus-wide WI-FI. I always had this sparkling image of me, sitting in ... internet, most of the links were broken and the info outdated. This is my

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . Plus, there's a lot of work. Take last week, for example. I was up until ... on Thursday. Once I handed that in, I had a couple of hours of class. After that, I dedicated all of my time to studying for the 8.02 exam that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  Hey again world, it's me, Ruth, friend of Sam. Regardless of Sam's recent entry, Sam is in fact an engineer, and I am queen of the humanities ... 's a picture of Harvard's Widener Library to serve as a transition

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  discussion of one of the puzzles. In about a month all of the puzzles will be ... sorts of time consuming stuff). So, without further delay -- Puzzle ... for us to solve. When a new puzzle was uploaded, a group of people

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  significant is this number? Does a ratio of 5:1 mean a lot when you can have a freshman lecture size of 400? One of the quintessential features of American ... imagined college in high school, I imagined being in one of these huge halls

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to have some sort of structure, but it's become a bit of a brain dump of ... horizon, but the past few days have been when a lot of project classes begin

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  !). It was literally lifechanging. It was my first time out of the country ... rest of my IAPs at MIT. There are actually quite a few options in terms of IAP abroad programs. I thought it might be useful to write a quick

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a ... to have things sort of figured out in my mind, so I can say something ... pretty tough. I went through a rough breakup. I felt like my circle of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  at the forces affecting the development of cities around the world. If accepted, I will be travelling with a group of about 30 students to Detroit ... gain a better understanding of the social, political and economic systems

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  I have enough of a questions backlog now that I think it's worth ... little groups of freshmen led by an upperclassman (all incoming frosh are ... midway and the athletics midway, where you can visit booths of different

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  A brief happy post amidst the chaos and confusion of existence: Hi ... going on with me and my life. For those of you who don't know, I just ... with all of my family members and spend time with them, as this summer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020