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• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  + Events. There is now a whole guest blog post about it! Learn how to have a ... issues. What should you pack for the four fun-filled days? How do you pick ... one of the more anxious pre-frosh two years ago, so I figured it might

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  our impressions of the class and suggestions on how to make it better ... enthralled by how entangled the two disciplines really are.Its lectures ... for science. However, it also stands apart from my other classes as the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  I actually really enjoy it and seeing my progress. Since I've been home, I have not stepped foot in the gym. For 2020, I want to see how ... 'll most likely take progress pics throughout the year just so I can see how

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Meeting FAQ The answers to the FAQs at our Central Meetings.

  

  Street (at Mill Street), San Luis Obispo, CA 93401Los Angeles/Long Beach ... Golden Shore, Long Beach, CA 90802 At my Central Meetings, there are a ... statistics? Is it easier to get in if I apply early? Last year, early action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  pierced, what types of piercings I wanted, and how much it would cost. At most places, it seemed like the piercings I wanted would cost me about ... planning to walk there, but it was incredibly cold (the weather archives tell

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  will. That said, it's important to check in occasionally so I'd suggest ... encourage them “do their own thing” and know that it's good for you to do the same. It’s the best way for them to figure out if they are comfortable

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  . This post is the first of a series of three posts about the Festival. It ... . Now, machines can perform calculus operations for us, but it takes a human to learn how to apply calculus to improve the world. Machines

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  know what it's for.   Step 2 - Understanding Your Options and ... WILL recline their seat as far as it can go, the person to your left will ... Leg Room. Bound to have terrible neighbours whose goal it is to make

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  , opportunities It never ceases to amaze me at how many opportunities there are at ... I love MIT. (Maybe it's too early to say, but no one simply says "I ... booths at TechFair, enjoying the technology, when it dawned on me. "Wow

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  about how happy my former english teacher would be! And how fortunate ... that you never will, but again, I digress). It may seem like the wealth ... it you'll realize you were never ready at all. Perhaps there's a lesson

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  - energy storage is a tricky problem. How creative can you get in solving it ... poor people in Africa, it's not like being published is really in the ... saying "Hey look! I'm published!" is really going to make a difference. It

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  't know how you guys do it, I can barely get all this stuff graded on time ... , though, I think they complain about junior lab. It's best to come into ... weeks, you are expected to have learned how to operate your first set of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  I am two days away from finishing my first semester at MIT. How did ... realized that the mysterious objects weren't miscellaneous debris at all - it was a hack! It was a giant game of Settlers of Catan! Although you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  bit about Untravel Media - what it is, how it began, etc. I had to write ... process. (You guys know how I feel about the thousands of vendors who ... other. It's a unique program where I could pursue sociological questions

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  class. It is challenging. Each lecture has a bunch of content and it's overwhelmingly rich - but it's well organized and I learned a lot from it. I think ... asymptotically how can we quantify the notion of "information" and estimating

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  minimize the hectic nature of my time here. We’ll see how it goes, but right ... pleasant waters. It had its several current peaks and rocky outbursts ... for them in what little free time I had. It was my most stressful high

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  hello, after six years

  

  writing. this is not possible to stop, how change continues to happen. i ... . like how to play a game where i try to escape from hell, and how to play ... all good things are done with other people. i wonder often, how i have

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  wouldn't be this good without it." I thought about how we used to finish ... our build season, and never really hit on it. We never figured out how ... much detail, since Chris and Natnael did it justice here and here, but it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA   And it seems like I'm going to be leaving the blogs with a ... fun to write, but I don't want it to come across as one of those "the ... general. Biology at MIT (what? why? how?) + cool stuff going on in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  how little I still know about where I live. Last weekend, I went on a grocery run. It was wine and cheese night in my suite, so I was preparing an ... 't bode well for my dish. Well it turns out there's a big Whole Foods

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018