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• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  advice on how to succeed here.” I still feel that way. But I didn’t blog ... I haven’t blogged much at all this year. I remember how happy I was ... opportunity cost. Everything you decide to do will keep you from doing something

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  from top.roommate?i have few questions- 1.how many students(UG) share a ... allowed to live in a single room?" There are actually two people in the ... sitting on the bed is Ace, April's friend who came to watch us do all of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzle: Are we going to win? another puzzle to stimulate your mind

  

  this weekend, so I probably won't get a chance to post the solution until Monday, but until then, have an awesome weekend! Are we going to win? "Here is my schedule. I just can't seem to get the times right. I need a

  • by Bryan
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  wrong with it.) I learned how to use a power drill and table saw at the ... was that studying engineering taught you how to solve problems, and isn ... train me to think analytically about systems – both how to design them and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  note="if this isn't an indication of how determined i was to play the ... shinra feed to tell us how to defeat the reactor"]one of the characters[/annotation] on how the battle mechanics worked and then we actually got to play the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  I don't want the summer to end. I don't want to pack the rice cooker and carry my laptop through campus; don't want to fold my sheets all neat and cram them in my suitcase. I don't want to leave MacGregor and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  . Fortunately, I now know how to make a website, something that I never actually knew how to do before. Also, the resume workshop was filled with some ... present to you my schedule from this week: Highlight Reel: Monday: Nothing

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• 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 ... food than you'll know what to do with (hint: give it to a hungry ... anything to them was Battle of the Bands.* For an hour and a half one night

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

  Looked outside my window, and what did I see I probably shouldn't be surprised, but I am.

  

  This is probably one of the last things I was expecting to see when I went to my window to investigate the staggeringly loud noise I heard ... impossible to try and capture it all in a blog. Never fear though, I'll figure

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  teaching high schoolers about any topic they want. To give you a sense of the range, when I did Splash 2017 (as a senior and before I got accepted to MIT, how time flies!) I did a game design class, early solar system

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  Grüezi mitenand! Thought I'd give you all a quick update on how life ... 'm already returning back to the US end of next week. This week is also the ... , offering students the luxury of having the entire summer to revise and giving

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  candy) happened yesterday afternoon, people flocked to Save TFP’s Spooky ... costumes, merriment, and, apparently, smashing things. You have to relieve ... random leaves ended up in this picture. It’s really cool to see the wind

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  group of high schoolers have six weeks to create a five foot, 120 pound monstrosity to compete in a game announced in the first weekend of January. Dean Kamen's goal with FRC and all of the FIRST competitions is to popularize

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Admitted Students Welcome, Class of 2013!

  

  statistics. It's always interesting to see how you fared (especially since this ... First of all, Welcome to the MIT Family! (click to see full ... peeled on the myMIT portal. Sign the guestbook to introduce yourself to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• 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 ... parallel. That is to say, order doesn't matter. (All of this assumes you have ... 'll hold on to it until the rest of your application comes in. The same goes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  -absorbed individuals that are too busy plotting their next breakthrough to pay any attention to their undergraduate students. While I have never encountered such ... with him today and asked him what it was like to receive such a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  I arrive somewhere to give a talk. Someone emailed to suggest this might be more useful, so I'm going to try to do it when I can. So: right now, I'm en route BOS -> SFO, on my way to Maker Faire Bay Area 2016

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  goodness of Barbeque Lay's (okay, so maybe to mediocre health). And I can't tell you how luxurious it is to wonder what I should be doing right now ... refuse to wear anything else.) I've slowly been getting myself back to good

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  So yesterday, I'm in my office trying to catch up on email when a ... of catching up, he asks me about how one takes a year off from MIT ... friend, and another guy have started a company. He wants to take a year to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  , physically, intellectually, and emotionally reacting to the three weeks I spent in Zambia. To make a long story short, the only road to Mwape (the rural village where we were supposed to stay and perform water testing for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007