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  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  I can’t believe it’s been a year since I first delved into the MIT ... -cream events than I really should! But despite how much of MIT I soaked in, I ... Vincent Anioke, MIT Freshman. I am now Jason Hernaka, bespectacled, clueless

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  . I really have learned a lot during my freshman year at MIT.  I learned ... hours in the forges of MIT creating metal alloys and casting them.  During ... really fun class and I recommend it to all future second semester MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  MIT? 2. What does a day in the life of a physicist look like? 3. I ... school as great as MIT...I'm obsessed with it. I'm sad that I probably won ... :  "Basically MIT is 110% my dream school, I have worked so very hard the past

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  the following sign: You have arrived at New House: home to all of MIT ... southwest Vermont, double-majoring in Math and Music. At MIT, he is involved ... for three hours per week. Non-MIT-related hobbies include "birding

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  dad who asked about MIT statistics, the astro-physics girl ... information about Astrophysics at MIT:Astrophysics@MITProf. Alan Guth (rumored ... telling you aboutThe MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  that Will Smith turned down a scholarship to MIT to pursue his rap career ... are concerned, MIT was in the 1980s, as it is now, a school that offers ... MIT Math Professor Hartley Rogers that I sometimes tell? So, here's the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  the stories I collected this summer about the new MIT freshmen... MIT ... for mathematics and had her sights set on submitting an MIT application ... ." After returning from a visit to Mexico, Ceniceros checked the MIT online

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  If you asked me before spring break where I like to eat around MIT, I ... MIT for almost four years, I had not yet explored Boston's food scene as ... do! So when Aiden posted his tier list of MIT's dining halls and rated

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  T being Boston’s subway system, which he used to get from MIT to ... was a high school senior, I had visited MIT by myself for CPW, and it ... can give. Here we are, in this universe where I chose MIT. I love MIT in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  humanities major at MIT. So I thought I'd wrap it all in a neat little ... anyway. MIT offers a really cool unique thing known as joint degrees, a ... fully pursuing the computer science degree at MIT? Am I "giving up" or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  I talked with MIT undergrads who make YouTube videos! Read on to ... highs and lows of being an MIT student and everything that comes with that ... Chao: Does this guy even go to MIT? Continuously learn, entertain, and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  Expectation: There is no way I’m getting into MIT, let alone becoming ... me. College, man! Expectation: MIT doesn’t get hard until classes ... orientation, each MIT freshman has the option to take part in a freshman pre

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  navigate MIT and attempt to reconcile my diverse interests in both biological ... , but have been left wanting for different electives among a sea of MIT ... advantage of MIT's unique Comparative Media Studies department and enroll in

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  class. That's right, I GOT MY FIRST A AT MIT!!! I am so happy!!  I actually never thought I could do it.  I thought that MIT didn't give A's for ... learned more than I ever had before about myself and about how to do MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  . MIT students are some of the best shooters in the country because we ... MIT, one of the best teams ever. But, due to budget cuts of many important varsity sports and teams, the MIT Pistol Team is now student-run and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  a comment by me, or the admissions office, or MIT on the politics of ... , and YouTube, and Wikipedia, and, for that matter, MIT Admissions) by ... they are important and central to MIT too. That's why MIT Professor Sir

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  [by Emma Frank '15] Before I first visited MIT, I envisioned it ... . But it is! And after a tour of MIT’s public art through my freshman advising seminar 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I’m flabbergasted at

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as ... -year) deferral from starting at MIT, it is super easy to do so. On your online reply form on your MyMIT portal, just choose I will enroll at MIT and I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  -warping influence of continued sleep deprivation, my initial 5 days at MIT were about ... leisure, like building miniature “robots” and touring MIT/Boston and eating ... Facebook community. And then came September, when Fake MIT (orientation

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  semester at MIT, but added, "but he did nothing but study." That is NOT what P/NR is for! P/NR is there to smooth out your transition to MIT's rigorous courseload - to allow you to explore what MIT has to offer while not

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008