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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  ! I've got a German III test tomorrow, but general consensus on campus is that HASS-D tests don't really count. So really, the only test class ... don't even care anymore when those tests are. I think the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  version of their flagship musicBottles demo. It's pretty much an art piece ... ). When you take out the stopper from the bottle music plays, which 'releases' the music trapped inside the bottles. Apparently this demo has been

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  . on weeknights, i'd play board games, or go to lectures, or eat out. on ... or play smash with. i used to think i'd burn out, that by doing ... problem sets and projects with them, live with them, cook with them, play

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  - we could test for HIV, hepatitis, blood sugar, cholesterol, liver ... F coldness that we had during the winters (never thought that I'd say ... have to find all the males first! (which generally accounts for 2% of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  ). The Watchmakers worked in the Watchmaker Zone, and to help them test ... or create new accounts. It actually turns out that none of these tasks ... to do [...], but I'd like to check and make sure I'm not going to screw

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  as I can tell. In your MyMIT account, if you go to Section 8 of Part ... ... Well, first of all, MIT is hard. So is there a lot of pressure? I’d say ... back on a test where they already had a 97. As the saying goes, MIT is so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  coordinated, I loved it, and I loved the people. I didn't think I'd play frisbee ... originally was hopeful enough to think I'd bring carry-on). The hardest thing ... . Sometimes I think if I had only those two things, the place and the people, I'd

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  artefact for the challenge, a “bad” test that WW Academy students (or, rather, MIT students in the trial run) would analyze and improve upon. Just as ... environments. The other Youth Advocates come from Wellesley, Harvard, UMass, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  freshman fall as test run/simulation for the next four years. Here are some ... Symphony Orchestra (MITSO), Video Game Orchestra (VGO), and more if you play ... from home, show up in this intense environment, and are experiencing true

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  things, playing out worst-case scenarios. At some point, I learned to just ... away, I put my headphones on and I play some Taylor Swift. My go ... handed out copies of her demos to record labels in Nashville, only to get

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  playing through Dark Souls 2. She is the Invincible Shield, and I am the ... . Regardless, I'm going to work on a little Megaman demo project. I highly ... (people on my hall have been playing it :P) for around $20! Just in time

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  recommendation gets to MIT before anything else?" I'd like to answer all questions ... standardized tests, such as the SAT Subject Tests, after the application deadline? What should I write on my application under test scores? This is actually

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  about the Lab for Chocolate Science at WeirdBostonEvents.org. "I'd love to have the bank account to only buy good chocolate," Hawkins says. But not ... Test Tubes By KATIE ZEZIMA Published: Wednesday, February 11, 2004  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  &A session on MIT Admissions' official Instagram account. Running these events ... choosing MIT over USC. I was really concerned that I'd be sacrificing fun and ... people, encouraging environment, with moments of stress and doubt and those

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  research, learning the ins and outs of team formation, and testing our ... I entered MIT, I had no idea I'd get as invested in building things as ... push until the work is done. [caption id="attachment_100115" align

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  and trigger sound effects to play. [caption id="attachment_100686 ... ! Tetrahedron is an instrument made of four triangles glued together: [caption id ... glue would dampen the triangles’ acoustics, Tetrahedron would account for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  Station for testing autonomous docking algorithms. The idea is that you want to develop and test these sorts of things in an environment where if ... fix it (whereas if you were testing in Real Space, you would lose your

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  from all this, it’s that goodbyes are hard- period. [caption id ... want to be outside doing fun stuff, I love the beach, I hope we play ... students rub John Harvard’s feet for good luck before they sit for tests. On

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  ? Yes! After receiving your Part I, we will assign you an MIT ID number ... MIT has your test scores, and your fourth question, where to find out your MIT ID. I hope you like the tracking system; I was on the team that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  craziness with natural disasters this year (which impacted the testing), not ... application. In that case, go to your MyMIT account -> “Online Application ... , testing agencies, and letter writers through the month of November so don

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017