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• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  , “impossibly busy with less time or resources to complete everything than available (as in trying to drink from a firehose). (context: MIT)” I drank ... my last blog post in a desperate attempt to preserve inspiration, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  blender -- with a catch. Blenders don't speak English, so in order to ... have a couple of things I need to tell y'all. First, Blendie (the Rrrrrrr part of the title). I could devote an entire entry just to this, but

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  . To get in, you must either be the next Newton, or filthy rich. Good ... Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the ... , because how the hell should I know? I got in to my first choice school, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  because in order to teach you have to know your stuff, and because through ... -generated censorship, or how people manipulate social media to suppress speech. While I ... social media, broadly defined. In short, I wanted to design and teach the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  this: Mr. Jackson [was] a father figure to generations of young men in ... . Jackson, a father figure to generations of young men in the house, died of ... " Lewis Gosman, who said his job was to keep the 35 young men "in line and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  ammunition, and more guns than you can (or would want to) shake a stick at. A ... never blog about varsity sports, why?" or "You try to hire bloggers from a ... all make hand turkeys, draw turkeys, or photoshop turkeys to shoot at

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  of 2017-- to experience the thrill of working in the Super Sport Car ... new collaborations will lead to new technologies in the fields of the ... , sophomore year at MIT, my phone started talking to me in the middle of a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  's probably not in your best interest to use the comments to wonder about this ... sports, it's possible to join and excel even if you never played in high ... you're interested in a club sport, feel free to email the captains of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  very close ended to the very open ended: before my time, in the days of ... answer. A) and B) are somewhat in tension, but we try to balance them as ... to elicit enlightening information about you, or what sorts of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  21 years old. Well, it's been a while. According to MT I started ... microfabricated fuel cell that could be used to power a cell phone. We filled Ruth's room with one thousand inflated balloons. My flight back to Harrisburg

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  materials to make popping boba and talked about working in industry. I loved ... fisherpeople in Maine to find responses that could be used to argue for a whale ... to work on public policy, too. I don’t know that I want to work in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  the train, the plane, to work, at lunch, in the evenings, or my personal ... If you are a college student, or even in high school, you may have ... -fi stories (!!!!), in a very organic way. Going to try and add to that~ Some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  seniors, I had no final exams – or any obligations – in the three weeks ... jubilation to dissipate. The weather was markedly poor during the third week in ... dark and sunless. But, I still managed to find time to relax in the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  Teaching Assistant (TA) who is in industry/research, to complete a series of ... in 2 years, in order to reduce the financial hardship on his family. As ... 5!) but also managed to find time to have a UROP, participate in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  CPW story can be summed up in three pictures. Friendship: From R to L ... his room and attended 6.006–Intro to Algorithms, a course located in the ... choice to focus in Digital Systems Design.   There are two of these

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  things to say about everyone else. Really, we all loved being in that room ... , being an actress in VagMo was not particularly taxing. We didn’t have to ... Teaching Assistants The final shout-out in this post goes to my awesome

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  watched Pitch Perfect, a film in which freshmen know what they want to do ... , created in an attempt to win dinner with the renowned Professor Eric Lander ... , and even attempted to get in on magnificent Black Friday deals, but

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  entered the field of biology in order to make or find something that can ... required to take 18.03 (differential equations) where as in biology you are ... in Python and Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  . A voice narration begins. I attribute many feelings to love or to hate ... Song: Dancing in the Moonlight by Olive Klug It's 9:05 am. The ... episodes ago in the season premiere. However, this time the room isn't a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  password that you use to log in to your MyMIT account. There are no interim ... before logging in to decisions.mit.edu. 6,820 students applied for early ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013