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• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  blender. I was a skeptic (how can you beat WillItBlend?) but I decided to ... have a couple of things I need to tell y'all. First, Blendie (the Rrrrrrr part of the title). I could devote an entire entry just to this, but

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  brainstorming: First, we design how this calculator is going to work, Then ... thought to not using a state machine: Designing a calculator without ... is not that easy. Nevertheless, I decided to pursue this interesting

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  to me - not just because I had never been on the campus before but also ... would’ve meant the world to freshman me back in high school. But as I ... nights and interesting experiences, I want to reflect a little on my first

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  quickly ran out of room. There's an incredibly interesting story to how MIT ... contemporary campus. This is not that story. Instead, this is the story of how ... almost closed again, only to be saved by a last

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  traditional-but-not. So now you should definitely come visit me when you get to ... : We are supposed to swim 100 yards on front? We do not need to use the ... -based advising. is it bad to be in a dorm and not have a chance to reenter the dorm

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  ! Just so you don’t have to :-) 1) How long does Interphase last ... your undying love for trashy TV!) 2) How much does going to Interphase ... way to gauge how good your study habits/exam-taking skills are. 6) Is

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  underclassman excitement, feeling tired and cynical, not bothering to remind ... not caring as much. I don’t know if it’s the word I would use to ... thing, though, it’s more just an observation. One way to describe how I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  exercise :) But now that classes are about to start, I'm not sure if I can ... about to begin. I'm taking the following classes: 7.013 - Introductory ... to Psychology 21W.755 - Writing and Reading Short Stories 9.URG

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  material - not just getting the right answer, but understanding how to do it ... Edner Paul did not allow that to stand in his way. In his four short years ... other O'Bryant students to pursue MIT." Paul said he did not even know MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  your algorithms statistical background to understand most not too niche ML papers a "physicist's mindset" to inference problems: learning how ... to compute those invariants. The content is quite pretty but I did not

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

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  would also get me to actually read these papers. It did not. I carried a ... only periodically read a page or three. To be clear, the problem is not ... ] pset due Monday and generally doing basically anything that was not

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  to code and how to investigate questions about the brain using ... a combination between 6-1 and 9. To be clear, these tracks are not ... not the sole determinant of your opportunities. This can be hard to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  class, and you have to learn for you, not for the grades. My new ... First, an aside Today, Adam and I were on the subway heading to the ... map and realize how absurd that is. Schrodinger's train, perhaps? And

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  , helpful, and responsive to our community, including not only prospective ... ; Kathleen E. '22, from New York, lives near the beach, but does not go to it ... welcomed people to the "new" MITAdmissions.org, the one you would have seen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  watched, clutching a clipboard to my chest. Exam Room 1 is not a normal ... like all of them. Not yet. Even now, I can’t really explain why I came to ... my life. I decided not to apply to colleges, and instead to try to

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  was convinced that joining a sorority was not the way to go. Anyway, my ... dry. Suffice it to say I was not expected to participate in sorority ... 's sororities is not to put unsuspecting girls through Formal Recruitment. Formal

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  , this IAP really hits different. i forgot what it was like to not have to ... 's work i want to be doing, and not another soul-sucking pset that i have to ... this is the third IAP i've spent on MIT. trust me, i really tried to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  to stay on top of my work.” How I look at it now is “I have made a ... !   How many MIT students does it take to figure out a swing?   ... of the Kremlin, trying not to fit in with the Russians Obligatory team

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• 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 ... best way to describe 2.00b is...well... FUN :D! Not only are the lectures ... Happy Valentine's Day to all you lovely readers of the MIT blogs! I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  needed to do well was to study really long and hard, which was clearly not ... figure out what to do. I told them how I understood the material and how to ... important I feel they are. They suggested that I try to understand how I learn

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014