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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  have the huge, official guide to CPW events, but don't you want some ... sign on, you won't regret the journey :D THURSDAY, 9.30-midnight, Johnson Athletic Center, CPW Welcome Festival! Don't miss out on the CPW

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  -camera sensors. Also, in case you didn't catch it from the second to last link ... weren't far off. Since January 4th, I've spent most of every day working ... feels rewarding. I can't bring myself to write too much more about it

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  ? Interestingly*, I haven't gotten out of MIT recently. (In nearly one year, to be ... your driver's permit. Me: I don't know what a car is. I walked away from ... into a sophisticated machine designed to verify that they weren't size

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  : Eight times forty-two is a big number. Big enough that I won't feel like typing it out in words if I calculated it in my head right now. Guess I won't ... , I won't even try to justify why I did that. Monday was my prolonged

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  year of high school stood between myself and a diploma. I wasn't accepted to any other colleges, probably because I hadn't applied to any other ... probably went to bed at 3 AM the night before and can't believe that I just

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  , likewise with high school. This blog isn't about elementary, middle, or high ... don't ever blog about what we do. Laura did field hockey, I'm in pistol ... MIT pistol team has its very own turkey shoot! No, we don't shoot real

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  something (Look, don’t even try to understand my deepest, darkest musings ... slightest chance you won’t be attending then they’ll send you the most ... shiny new envelope, there isn’t a whole lot of really neat stuff. Once you

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  grade hasn't posted to WebSIS yet, but I'm pretty sure it's an A. I can't ... interest in physics, even if you don't plan on majoring in course 8. At the ... I can swallow my disbelief. What I don't get is this: Quantum

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  Saturday, 07/07/07, was my birthday! I usually don't plan anything ... (bad bad bad - don't do this at home, kids). Then my friend Ashley ... was 07/07/07. And if you aren't celebrating the day of the century with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  got in. If you got deferred, don't take it too hard, plenty of people ... wish the students weren't so weird and nerdy. Both ends of this spectrum ... ("having lots of work to do", "sympathy for peers who can't go to some fun

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  other blogs. I do read all of your comments, and even if I don't respond ... admissions department. So, if you call or e-mail your EC and don't receive a ... or isn't doing his or her job: it might mean the EC is on vacation, on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  -frosh had asked about class schedules (don't worry, Minh, I haven't forgotten ... brain was really in Cambridge, even then. I don't regret my decisions at ... .01 (Physics- Mechanics) and 7.012 (Intro biology), and don't really regret

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  liked the title and couldn't bring myself to change it. Actually, this ... summer. I was really puzzled by the last line, in which she said she couldn't ... things about MIT that you still can't replicate, no matter how many MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  by, like Bonsai Kittens. But I really can't imagine why somebody would ... know some people who haven't seen any of the films at all. According to ... be weak to lure Anakin to the dark side, but really, couldn't he have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  seem a bit high, but that doesn't stop frat boys from trekking over to ... free but laundry costs money. I don't know if it's still true, but you ... because I'm out of underwear." Parents, don't let this happen to your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  bones just like everyone else -- but I was wrong." I don't know if this comes as some sort of great disillusionment to you, but you don't always ... raised in a world without the its classic taste). After that, I don't

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  if you still had a pulse." I still don't think anybody got all of the ... groups", etc. Does MTG count? I don't think so because when I visited MIT ... they said that it wasn't in their department. Why can't Musical Theater

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  schools don't ask for mid-year reports or expect that you'll keep your ... summer isn't necessarily going to net me any publications. And yet I ... lab. It's nice to know I don't do it for the tangible rewards. :) MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  1936, MIT was not quite as awesome as it is now, so it wasn't very easy ... Vicar wouldn't found the program until 1969. RB, however, was undeterred ... MIT grad school now, don't expect to get out with a PhD in less than 5

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  've heard that Bartok Concerto for Orchestra is absolutely awesome - I haven't ... weird stuff lol, Op.133 Grosse Fugue? I don't know ... at least I don't ... but haven't had the chance yet--I've heard some of his later piano

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005