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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  with additional questions or ask them in the comments below. I can ... this before on the application process here. This time, however, I wanted to talk about more than just The Process. Every college is different

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  Facebook event, I went hysterical to say the least. Yall! Second chances actually do exist! They’re out there! For you and you and you... As the sun set above the MIT campus last Saturday, I excitedly made my way to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  posting--or for a more dramatic flair, The 7 Capital Vices I Have Oft ... , Professor Hazel Sive had an inspirational quote as her first slide up at the start of class. It said something along the lines of “your true passion is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  over the grill. From weekly family dinners, to Pancake Sunday with my ... been a mini-celebration of the good things in life. Good food brings a ... and running to your 8.01 lecture. The smell of something cooking in the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  -six back to back 4:45 miles.  How do they do it? The answer is that they ... feels that way in the middle of a hell week - what's the point of having midterms, psets, and essays clustered in the same few days, anyway? And you

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers

  

  We've had makers on the mind here for a little while. Earlier this month Ceri blogged about the MIT Maker Faire. Earlier this year Dawn and I wrote a white paper for the White House about technically creative

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Roller Coasters and Dance Parties Sunday was the East Side party! Lots of loud music and prefrosh!! Still, no fun.

  

  This past Sunday was the East Side party, where the denizens of the ... the fantastic roller coaster and fort for themselves.  Everything felt ... from the party, enjoy! I even got to go on a ride

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July A video experiment just for the heck of it

  

  completely by one of the YouTubers I watch regularly, Emily Diana Ruth. She ... Illustrator and Premiere. So I decided to take advantage of the remaining time ... fun. This particular experiment is a product of 1) wanting to test the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 30, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Transfer Decisions Will Be Sent Today see title, more or less

  

  applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed on their application. The emails will be sent at 5 PM Eastern today, May 7, and you should receive it shortly thereafter, depending on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  Aviator and Family Guy) while assembling our airplane to drown out the raucous men out in the parking lot blasting loud country music. While all you sprightly prefrosh came rushing into MIT for the one and only Campus

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  It's pre-finals week. Today is the last day of classes. Projects are ... professor last night, and frankly everyone is just counting down the minutes until the day is over. For me, laughter is the best therapy (fortunately

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  smuggled out of dinner. Now, you may be wondering, is the above: 1) a ... sub-par metaphors that, upon deeper analysis, actually expound on the ... questions. One could certainly argue that the connotation of the word

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  Here's the thing about me: I'm naturally an introvert. Talking to ... based on how familiar with the person I am, how much I know about the topic of conversation, and how much sleep I got the previous night. Not

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  During my first pass through the Logan Airport security line, I was ... : Yep! TSA Agent: Wow, physics. Great time to be a physicist, with all the ... 's right around the corner. TSA Agent: Ah, well. Life gets better, don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  " for the rest of his life), Middle English and the Canterbury Tales (they even got to hear me read out loud in Middle English), the art of writing ... -mail to ALL THE PREFROSH! passing on personal advice and some specific

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline

  

  looks like the site is back up again! Thanks again for your patience ... above and beyond what we had originally anticipated). We're aware of the ... 't log in, don't worry; we'll be flexible with the Regular Action deadline

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  huge convention/fair of creative people getting together to show off the ... replica of Mousetrap the board game. Rather than have me add 25 hyperlinks ... be there! Oh yeah, its got everything. In addition to all of the

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  Hello from the other side! Like the wizened, immortal Jess Kim, I am ... Square, just a few blocks from MIT. I’m the youngest employee and the only ... interns for the summer, I was all like, “yay! I will not be the least

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chem Lab Boot Camp!

  

  , filmmakers followed around the participants of 5.301 Chemistry Lab Techniques as they struggled with the intensive, high stakes world of ChemLab Boot Camp. The footage has now been edited together in an engaging way and

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the ... like this, or even this.* Last semester, I found the remedy to most ... humanity's personal experiences.   Lealia '15 reveals the solution

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012