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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  alums happy to talk about what they majored in, where they lived, and what ... good fit for MIT students (undergrads and graduate) who are interested in ... (s), while others make their decision based off of a resume and cover letter

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  CPW has come and gone, and now you're deciding where to spend the next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you ... psychologists Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky (one of the discoverers of cognitive

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  Both my father (MCP, '87) and I spent some time here at the Institute. My dad, as you might deduce from the letters and the year next to his name, got his Master's in City Planning, and in a way, he planted the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  ’s definitely not because I’ve decided to relax too much and lead a quiet, uneventful life, let me assure you. IAP came and went and all throughout it, my writing voice remained as silent as the sudden, somber, and “I’m so old

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  designer, and I ended up being in the cast myself, so I couldn’t resist ... when I got here. Sara had mentioned the play in class our first week, and ... , and his colleague(s) had simply been deleted. Based on Fassbinder

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  you have to pay for. When I told her that, she mulled it over and then just chalked up my high school record (and my college choice) to natural ... comes to curiosity and the receptiveness of kids to new ideas and the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  importance of having many cultures and learning from them. Today, I would like ... state of New Hampshire's greatest, and most revered, cultural practice ... the area of the face located below the nose and above the upper lip. As

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  posts planned and then the first round of exams hit us. Some of them went ... brilliant and inspiring people and the sweetest research, but you’re also in a perpetual state of studying and exam-taking from your first exam to your last

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  camera at the MIT Hobby Shop. After months designing and building this camera from scratch, in between classes and a summer job, I finished it in ... , polishing the brass and oiling the cherry, with the hope of having the camera

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] As he walked up to us and stretched out ... has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of the military, and for me, color guards symbolize each of those qualities

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  applicants to contact their interviewer (and, if you're applying for regular ... like that. It's meant to be more of a conversation, a give and take. What you should do is this: log on to MyMIT, where you'll find the name and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  and as long as it's not something really popular like Pistol or Yoga ... , and usually the entropy of activation required for that process is just ... people from all these different countries and showing them that people in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  Hollis resident who is interning at Google this summer and will attend ... Scholars from New Hampshire and is headed to Washington, D.C., in June to be ... president; and those most impressed by his summer job -- as an intern for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  better or would have liked but never got a chance to meet, and more. The ... cat shelters and fixing bikes for poor kids with Alpha Phi Omega. Took a ... , various SIPB classes, and 2.670. I've been at MIT for three years. Some

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  day with MadMatt and Nance Nance Revolution to make sure we're ready for ... . And that's not an exaggeration." There's a bit of silence as we all digest the words. And then the first folders hit the table, and we begin

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  name is Xing Cai and a full profile of her character is available from ... the mystery! Thanks, Eric, for identifying Xing Cai, and thanks Alissa ... Reserve UniversityFranklin W. Olin College of EngineeringOhio University And

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  up and running than everyone thought it would, so I decided to come home between classes and write an entry about the Brain and Cognitive ... .) Brain and Cognitive Sciences (or BCS, or course 9) is a small

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  Okay, so tonight we were at Allison's house and I didn't take any ... and if you ever stole anything in your life, you should confess now ... and she won't admit unrepentant thieves to MIT. So, anyway, we wanted

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  , and by how many cups of coffee I could consume until it was ... applications…and I had nothing but time to read them. Scarce hours of daylight were punctuated by Zoom calls and Slack huddles with colleagues

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  the same format: the autonomous stage and the driving stage. The ... with your controller and score as many points as you can. The ... and gathers as many points as it can before time is up. Coding

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022