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• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  student center to battle it out for a shot at glory! So how much would you ... tomorrow and it's all for you. For four days MIT crams all the awesome stuff ... an event density so high, it's like a neutron star of awesome! There

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  how to do a bunch of 2.005 so I don't fail it next semester 3) Work on ... "Memorial Dr." Adding to it is that everybody just calls it dorm row. View ... done and it was a wild ride. Like any wild ride it had its ups and downs

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  engineering internship at a startup.  How it’s going so far: I feel super lucky ... -uniform hypergraphs. How it’s going so far: After I was accepted to the ... : learning how to drive What it is: Since self-driving cars are not yet

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  heavy or dirty it seemed, and we began the long drive to Hastings ... part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* We did it ... was tested, scrutinized, and pushed to its limits and after many

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  privilege for the advantaged.” For you to receive legacy preference, it means ... . This means you come from a long line of educated people, who had the ... broadly accessible student loans and financial aid. It means you are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  in: Steer Roast is Senior House's claim to fame - it's our annual weekend-long party centered around the overnight roasting of a steer in our ... every year since 1964. Legend says it started as a small barbeque in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  friends said on a daily basis (note: I was going to link to it, but then I realized 1) it is entirely inappropriate for innocent eyes, and 2) I said ... adapted it, and now I have a detailed record of the funny and idiotic things

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  you want it to. If I don't heat up the solder joints long enough ... . If you do it neatly, it traces out the path parameterized by these ... . It's fun to nerd out about the mathematical intricacies of poi spinning

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  now it’s going up months late” series! Today’s topic: winter break :D ... down in the grass. It was 30˚F, and there were a few stars visible ... of goose sh!t in it. Which means that I had been lying in a LOT OF

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  there's one item I've been staring at guiltily for far too long: blogging. As it turns out, this semester was.....well....I learned a lot of "extracurricular lessons". We'll put it like that. But an unintended side effect of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  networking is to talk to people. Well actually, there's a little more to it ... yourself out there It's up to you to start forming relationships. Ask the ... . Granted, not all of it may need to be heard, or be correct, but you needn't be

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  regardless of how I avoided the plague for so long, the fact of the matter is ... students know how frustrating it is to be sick or hosed or generally ... ago, I was out sick with the flu. I frankly don't know how I had lasted

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  .   Distance is much more than being far away, It is to know how a ... “how are you doing”s lacking response.   The shy, tanned girl stepped down from the plane and learned how to laugh Typing “h”s instead of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out of cells? 1:31 am: I ... it with the equations in this paper but this sounds like a lot more ... pump really does do the pumping” I would not buy these pumps   2

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  ; hopefully this post will be helpful. How does the waitlist work? We are ... waitlist. How many people will you admit from the waitlist this year? It ... "yield"), we admitted 1548 students. However, it isn't

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  this post will be helpful. How does the waitlist work? We are aiming ... waitlist this year? It is impossible to know. We will have no idea how many ... ;yield"), we admitted 1620 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  enthusiastic!) offer. At long last, the deciding is almost done. Every year, we plan to admit students from the wait list. How many we admit is a ... list is used to manage the uncertainty of knowing how many students will

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  telling it because i find it funny. how a silly little review can make a ... side note, it helps me better understand how language forms (get ... communities and because it is funnier, the tungsten cube monologue has stuck

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  of RFID. You should read the article, because it does a much better job ... 's of Engineering in EECS. (Actually, it looks like since then, Colin ... the 2009 Young (under 35) Innovator of the Year. It's my former GRT

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  , kind of overwhelmed, and kind of really not sure how it’s all going to go ... States; I guess this is just the first small difference in a long line of ... this year, so I know it’s a bit eager to be starting to write already

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018