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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 1 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Hi everyone! CPW is in full swing. I haven't been this tired in a long, long time. :-) I got here a little after 8AM, worked the ... campus. It's been great to meet people in person after corresponding with

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  at her synagogue. But she worries that in spite of all she does, it ... admissions. “It helped me get real about what we’re actually looking for,” she said. “It helped me realize what a business we have become, the spin we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What programs does MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science) offer?

  MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science) runs outreach programs under the School of Engineering at MIT for underrepresented and underserved students interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.…
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  does. It’s an incredibly interesting topic, and what lies ahead seems ... schedule, here it is: 6.1010: a.k.a Fundamentals of Programming! I mostly ... this class, and it’s been fun to learn and adopt a new way of thinking

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  safe and healthy? perhaps the strangest thing about it was how weird it ... tuesday night. it’s a phase three waltz, and i’m dancing as the ... call is pickup. one tw—wait, that starts with the left foot, but it’s my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT ... that has many twists and turns, including how she went from being "a mouse person to a fish person" and how a trip to Germany during a

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  you live, and each living group is a community with its own distinct ... as important as where you live is what and how you eat. At MIT, you may ...  approach to housing, we give our students options about where, how, and what to
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  playing. The game takes a pretty long time to complete, but it’s choose your ... to get your hands on the prized diploma, but it’s way more fun to ... building numbers. It irks me that after almost two weeks of not leaving this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  ...well, yesterday. Phew, it's been long without blogging! During this long hiatus, I've been back in Taiwan (for 3 weeks!) catching up on ... ). Each day begins with the 8.40 Bart (it's like the commuter rail in Boston

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  had to try "Duff." Seriously, it's from The Simpsons, how can you not ... It seems as though the more work one has, the more time one finds to ... to be evil. Why? Here's what it looks like. Problem 1/ a -- s Problem

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  recognizing this, everywhere, in my friends' goodness, how much of it there is ... -- "my" class -- carries a lot of people who taught me how to care, how to think, and how to be a good friend, mostly by being good friends to me

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  . My TA had suggested that we budget nine hours for it. Ha. Hahaha. She ... on it, so I figured I'd be all right. I started out reasonably ... only one TA there, and lots of people who needed help, so it took ages

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  extent politics has become too efficient for its own good, and long term ... .).  Even Obama got in on the fun. But it's not just that FiveThirtyEight was ... well, within 2-3 points of Silver's.  It's that throughout his whole

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Graduation, Livestreamed cant talk gotta walk

  

  : working on embedding the official stream, which does not have an official

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  after experiencing this tumultuous year, it's strange to be having a ... "]North End.[/annotation] it was fucking incredible!! i got the chocolate bomb and lobster tail (it doesn't have [annotation note="if you want this, go

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  important: music, and how I listen to far too much of it. ...what?! I'm not ... idea how it happened. It's about time for an external hard drive. Once I ... the Meet the Bloggers party, we write stuff, put it on the Internet, and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  being a very walkable city, and it’s even more runable! It’s no sweat to ... ’re there, you can take countless loops around and along it. Just want to work ... ’s the northern view. It’s game time! Can you identify all of the numbered

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  out exactly how it was intended. In the spirit of most hacks, though, it ... must borrow something, always return it-- perhaps even leave a note saying when it will be returned. # Brute force is the last resort of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  even realize how strikingly different it is from what you consider normal ... So I'm back in the US, and it's weird. The first thing I noticed as I ... can hold moisture, I'd totally forgotten about that!" It was quite a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  school, both through learning it in classes and practicing for quiz bowl ... reminder of how much I had forgotten since coming to MIT. Around this time ... went something like this: It feels like I've forgotten a lot of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021