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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  ) to borrow for the entire academic year one of nearly 350 noted pieces ... loaned out to students -- is open to the general public. Students view the ... goes on, as we add pieces to the collection each year. Selected students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Puzzled need a quick fix for your boredom? try this puzzle on for size.

  

  from all over come to MIT to compete to solve insane brain teasers with hopes to find a coin hidden somewhere on MIT's campus typically over the course of one weekend. Freshman year, some friends and I decided to

  • by Bryan
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  Just thought I'd reiterate, for anyone who's applying to MIT this ... ), that I feel your pain on the application deal. I'm applying to graduate ... . Who would have thought I'd need to remember how to do things like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Anna’s Taqueria

  

  to campus, and that's exactly what happened. Last night, before the official opening, Anna's decided to throw open its doors and give out their food for free to MIT's students. I wasn't there, but I'm told that the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  particularly awesome this week 4) We had our first followup meeting to my proposal and it went really well - I think we're going to be able to ... last week... the new Alias season began. In general I don't have time to

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  over to the previously mentioned Diesel Cafe, where I read three applications, before heading to Teele Square for my usual Tuesday night pub trivia with Jeff and Chris (Prof. Morse to you). Sadly, we failed to win

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  MIT doesn't require applicants to take advanced courses beyond what ... soups of advanced academic programs. We like to see that students have ... opportunities. If you're using your resources in high school, you're going to
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  walking back to our apartment from our friend Jess’s dinner party. Trees ... to grab our ankles without warning.  Naturally, Penny thought it would be a brilliant idea to make up some ghost stories to pass time. Here

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  .  And it feels just as surreal as it felt when I got to campus for the ... the air. I didn't know how to get around campus, I didn't understand the secret numerical language everyone seemed to speak and I barely knew a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  commercial, like Livescribe had slipped me a $20 under the table to write an ... , thought it was important for prefrosh to know about it, and did a video ... talking about it now? That's old news, nobody wants to read the same stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  as to what the other ones were, you can easily find them! When applying to MIT, I knew I really, really had to write some damn good essays because I didn't feel like I had the stats and awards to bolster me up to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  human-written; they’re all machine-generated. I’m not sure if I want to be ... doing enough to help people. I’m sorry that I’ve been doing a lot, but I ... . In fact, I had to look at my blog posts to check that I’ve never

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  everyone that I was going to major in (astro)physics, which I don ... wanted to major in physics--I've always loved math, and space has been my ... to go from general physics to anything astronomy-applied is far to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  least a decade, but has since been abandoned for wayfaring students to ... hunts, and the like, which is why I was fascinated to hear that one of my ... installation. a complex installation that would take several months to build, no

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  I had expected to adopt MIT terminology into my own vocabulary ... going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for ... extent to which I ended up adopting my friend’s terminology into my own

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  My boyfriend and I made an impromptu trip to Montana over the weekend ... who loves hiking, I was stoked. I coerced my boyfriend to wake up at 3 AM so we could get to the parking lot by 6:45 to ensure a spot because

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  happened: Sometime in November, we got an email sent to the Art Scholars ... , but it said it will involve AI and art! That was enough to sell us, so we both applied! We both got to the phone interview stage. A couple

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  mostly like to talk about MIT as a physical entity. “Look at this cool ... the back of my mind. It started as snippits and sentences that came to me when I was walking to class or sorting books in the library. Then I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  I took this internship to figure out whether or not I wanted to pursue ... ultimately came to the conclusion that I really liked product management and wanted to work on it in the future. I'm writing this post because I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  to take a physics league test before zooming off to Metropark station to catch my 10 AM train. A couple days before, I had arranged to travel ... station, and to our surprise and delight, there were 4 other MIT ‘12s there

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008