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• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  humanities, social science, or language teacher. Additionally, a letter is ... Secondary School Report. We have always said that it is most important to get ... do to help us (and you) is make explicit in their letters any
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  . Right now, it can feel like the most important thing in the world is what ... truth is that there are uncountably many factors that go into a decision ... mattered. Embracing the unknown is always hard. But it's good to practice

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  to me, which is my usual style. I definitely couldn't keep this up all ... :) Les voilà! (Lisa's is first, then I alternated them; also, she likes ... , water, and debris pool in the dips and valleys. The wind is still now

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  class is so incredibly relevant to daily life. (warning: i'm about to ... - google calendar: The idea behind interval partitioning is that you have ... know how to do this, but why is this important?! And why should I care

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  I secretly love Taylor Swift. It was tough, but they say acceptance is the first step on the road to recovery. My phone is a RAZR - not one ... old this phone is. Most of the screen has broken off. My girlfriend

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  Freudian terror. Flash back to the real world, where school is still kind of ... for it, which is so good that literally every university with an ... , is unsoberingly motivational. ...I'm also reminded that I should go to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  my boyfriend's door is pretty good at attracting the ladies. Here ... fogey of an iPhone that still runs on Edge is faster than Chris's 3G i ... visiting my room: "Your door is so ANALOG(UE)!" Chris wrote up a more

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  can then choose to accept our offer (it is an understood part of ... will lose your deposit at the other school, but it is a standard practice ... is too early to know. In a week or two, we'll once again look at where

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  .007, Design and Manufacturing I. The basic goal of the class is to design and ... . The idea is to get as many of these balls into the highest scoring bins ... case is to learn a lot about the design process and what it takes to be a

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  them vertical is because it minimizes friction. One of them has fins and ... engine. [] This is a picture of Professor Hart. Picture of me and my ... some more and got it go at a max of 750 rpm. Moral of the story is to be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More CPW Pix

  

  's photos Rob's photos Ash's photos Eric's photos CPW is a crazy time for us ... 'd imagine -- and sometimes, that picture in your head is a bit off -- like ... , Francis, Balu, Saraya A good laugh is shared (maybe a New Jersey vs. Texas

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  algorithms that randomly generate a new world. terrain generation is a little problem that i really find quite interesting. this is going to be me nerding ... , producing something that looks like this: this is random, but it looks like

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  , which is impossible with glass. At Open Sauce, the maker expo in San

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  to the same fate, I have decided on minor downsizing. The issue is I ... could find. Although the result is minorly atrocious, it acts almost like a mumu and is objectively the best sleepwear. Fun Fact: This shirt is

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  find interesting. Part of it is in how we explain things, like using too ... part of it is in how we talk -- being excited when you talk, speaking ... . Building roads with the right parts is how we can use [power over time] to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am finished with my undergraduate career. I am finished with my undergraduate career.

  

  for the time left is to spend as much time as possible with people

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  just "Make") is sort of legendary. Gershenfeld has taught the class every ... have never made before. (Gershenfeld is also credited in Minority Report ... is a truncated icosahedron, which has 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A question for you… No seriously I have a question

  

  What is a scientific/engineering topic that you find most difficult to understand? I'm going to try to doodle explain it the best I can (I'll explain why later) in a blog post. Some categories to think about

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  message is this: there is no wrong way to fill out this section. Don't worry about putting an award in the "wrong" section, as there really is no best ... talents, you have done this section correctly. I hope this is helpful!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Results from the Photo Scavenger Hunt On the bright side, there's alt-text!

  

  --though if Schrodinger is to be believed, before posting the entry, I was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 27, 2009