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• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  - that I will blog more this year. It's a promise to myself as much as it's a promise to all of you - I want to make sure my senior year doesn ... think in new and creative ways to optimize problems that relate not only

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  ago. A great place to find a parent to talk to would be in the Parent ... Counselor on-hand in the Student Center or schedule a 20-minute appointment to ... , all the time" and to a large extent our office is that way too. We

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i have fridays off this semester here's what i did with my first one

  

  want to. You can wake up without a blaring alarm, note the snow out the ... you can walk to Red Line and find that, without checking the schedule ... to make your day, like you've hit a drive with only green lights. And

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 6, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist

  

  intentions to do so, we will not be using our waitlist. Our yield was even ... I'm currently out of the office, but back in Cambridge, it has been ... soon (though preliminarily there are a few numbers I'm very excited about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  , "Is there a deadline for deferred applicants to send in supplemental ... 's okay to mail a CD containing my coursework project in response to the ... It's a beautiful day here in northern Virginia, where I'm celebrating

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  to do. We apply what we learn in a big design project... where we make ... working in Solidworks (a program used for modeling on the computer) and ... semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  Dear MIT Protofrosh, If I had a time machine, I’d travel to my ... admissions. I was a staunch planner back in high school, one of those people ... major in social science. If I had studied social science prior to college

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  find yourself in (not just "am I smart enough to be in it"). Allow me to ... smart enough to be here. And while I do see validity in these questions ... a 60 on a test won't be the end of the world in the same way. Also, if

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  that requires you to be a junior and proficient in, like, five different ... of the process in obtaining a UROP[/caption] It's a great opportunity ... notice you in the first place can be a daunting task. But it doesn't have

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Conclusion Rock the vote!

  

  support! It's been a long month of spamming people I haven't talked to in ... , to the point that I sound like a drowning male frog through a voice ... that I've decided to live my life as a boy, and will be getting a court

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 27, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  . For the rest of you, REX is a great opportunity to find out about the ... . According to MIT's Dormitory Council: Residence Exploration, or REX, is a four day experience for first year students to explore MIT dorms and find

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  scorers won a free trip to Japan to compete in an even larger design ... So in hopes to show you more about what classes are like, over the ... build a car to complete a specific task or set of tasks and score as many

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  attached to a spring that can be seen in the picture below that was ... fastest descent that can basically get from point A to point B in the ... in a different way. I am really glad that I go to the lectures, so I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  LED rocks and the capacitive touch sensing to detect a user's hand. In ... the user can maintain a small turn radius. Dryve was designed to be used ... . From interactive climbing to portable AEDs, I felt that all the products

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  Vincent Van Growgh, and then eat a sandwich in front of Sandwich to instill ... chicks about to get eaten by a petrel until a tiny Adelie penguin runs in ... was so I could go on the [annotation note="a website used to figure out

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  Weighing the Pros/Cons I'm going to use a couple of initialisms here so that ... have electronics you want to use. Don't have a fold out tray to use ... either have an easy exit in the aisle seat or a beautiful view from the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  This was originally going to be a post about how now that I’m in ... to get a coffee and read a book in front of the Winter Palace. I don ... bad to just slow down for a while, to focus more on taking in the world

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just ... framing this post in the form of a Letter To My Past Self. If 2016 Abby ... and will put in a good word for you. Applying as an outsider to summer

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  coming true. in fact, way back when, i made a wish at 11:11 to become a ... -seated anxiety and a general feeling of not knowing what to do. All the buzzwords ... opportunities like that in your email. honestly as a 6-7 (cs & bio) i don

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• 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.

  

  forty pages flipped in a minute). I prepared. I found some integrals ... fractions is a total drag. Anyways, I waltzed in for the written portion ... Hamilton-listening time took a serious hit. Partial fractions continued to be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016