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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  three different paint jobs. Today, I put sunflowers on the windowsill, and ... of Chanel stores. With four other MIT students, I lived eight weeks on ... summer I’ve ever had, so I’ll tell you a little bit about it. On my last

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  by Melis A. '08 I Remember... by Anthony R. '09 Reflecting on 10 ... lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. These blog posts do ... featured on the front page the New York Times, or that dozens (hundreds?) of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  live in Boston are preparing to enjoy the marathon on this coming Monday ... starts tomorrow. It is always wonderful to see so many parents on campus taking part in events that will help them to know what MIT is like, just

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  -Lab: surviving on $2 a day - the typical living income for a Third World country ... their numbers are growing. When you come on campus, in fact, it's almost ... in between, MIT is pushing international development forward on pretty

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  , but I'm summarizing because this is a live-blog. As such, on to a ... Barkowitz and I have decided that today would be a good day to ... before so be easy on us, but the way this is supposed to work is that we

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  decisions (of which I will write soon) ensued, but one entry, written on a ... am on the first day (yes, at night), MIT students will present a series ... . Without careful consideration and planning, I saw myself on campus with a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  on average. I really want to explore why Phoebe's and Joey's have ... tranquility. No assignments due. No exams. I suddenly had a lot of time on my ... ="aligncenter" width="600"] I hope this helps[/caption] Am I obsessed? Sure. Use

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  chocolate at La Verde’s on the last day of CPW. I encourage you to do the same ... Boston on the other bank, pictured above. It was windy. I was cold. My ... live there (I don’t). I gawked at nerdy shirts at the COOP, which I would

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  reflecting on how I've spent my time outside of class. Of the various ... commitment] 40 hours (5 hours on Saturday, for 8 weeks)[tasks] Scratch is a ... compete in a Science Olympiad event called Game On. I quickly fell in love

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  best not written about on the blogs. Some of these phenomena can be written about on the blogs, though, and this is one of them. The central ... a HASS major) on campus, the Infinite Corridor is an 825-foot

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  -confidence as design engineers. Emphasis on the creative design process bolstered by application of physical laws, and learning to complete projects on ... manufacturability are emphasized. Subject relies on active learning via a major design

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  Navy. The good news is that I now know what I'm doing after I graduate ... tell you about today? ICE. And I don't mean solid water. From the subject ... applications varying by semester. Emphasis on the integration of fundamental

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  say I can’t help but be myself. “You wear your heart on your sleeve ... inadvertently reminded, thanks to news reports, that he was once a child prodigy ... . “Why are you always dating these PhD types? You’re overindexing on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  , to economics, to privacy, to distributed systems, to take on this ... Lab researchers and faculty across the MIT campus to explore the many ... developers of Bitcoin to continue work on technical development, as well as my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  on, pass/no record grading, acclimating to city life and being in one ... Bucknell University, I envisioned news clippings about horrendous hazing ... lacking on partying or hazing stories, instead speaking of the intense

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 1 A recap, with pictures.

  

  sitting on the same registration chair for 14+ hours today. Woot! Mitra has ... news is that this has been an ideal place to see people as they arrive on ... nitrogen ice cream via the Prefrosh Festival on the way back, and I've been

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  BREAKING NEWS! Find out about your life of pi

  

  up on the banks of the Charles River. It seems that famed tiger ... on Thursday, March 14, beginning at 6:28 PM ET.  When decisions

  • by Richard Parker
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  . Just today, you got your hair dyed at East Campus, helped Simmons build ... are some of them. All based on true stories, of course.  For those of ... butt glued to a random chair on the first floor of Stata. But your mentor

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  lived. The grad students had inhabited this dorm at the corner of ... undergraduate dorms, a group of founders is formed to help with the final ... effort towards deciding on a name that was more suiting and suave than "W1

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  ’ve heard can help a person fall asleep faster. Second, since I sleep next to ... schedule. Remarkably I’ve started feeling rested on seven or eight hours of ... find them on my bedroom floor I’m usually quite awake. Under my loft I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012