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• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  almost certainly how you should get to campus! Or you could walk, or bike ... you can come by to use the restroom, charge your phone, refill your ... enthusiastic amateur MIT historian — Danny B.D. ’15 directed me to the 1930

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  /January deadlines. Aside from simping over MIT a bit too intensely, I wanted to get in ... chocolate to get myself to write those essays — you can have another dark ... too well. If you get in, here's a virtual mug of my favorite [annotation

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  are going to end up getting a slice of that beautiful pie and taste ... taste. Some get sick of the pie halfway through and need to take a deep ... your cravings. But you get so discouraged just by looking at the people

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  are people too and they want to get to know the students they are ... wasn’t a couch potato by any means; I loved to go fishing with my ... lay in its ability to transport me to another world, another story, and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at CPW last year in your shoes. Well, I had never been to Boston before, so ... . I had already committed to MIT prior to getting on the plane, so I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  VSEPR Google News is the best.

  

  because I set my homepage to Google News. I only did that because I didn ... extraordinarily busy (and short!) week that I will describe to you all in detail ... magazine. Google News is the best.

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  there’s a way to balance the three as long as you're organized and realize ... !   And then we returned to campus, and it was time to get back to ... chance to experiment with website design and gain more experience with

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  attachment. It's easy (especially to do a UROP summary), fun, and you get to have your work published for all to see!!! I'm on the editorial board and ... *Why Do Insects Stop "Breathing" To Avoid Damage from Too Much Oxygen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  make my 13-minute (!) layover and get on a train to Lancaster, PA. If I ... is in Atlanta, Georgia? Hey, if you came here from Google looking for ... 've told this to basically everybody I saw today and I feel like I'm just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  you do is get access to your dorm (New World Symphony, “Going Home ... . We’re all jealous. In addition to getting into dorms, your ID card is ... get to MIT, however, they care less about the packaging, but the kind of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  get up, say good morning to my roommate, and head for the bathrooms ... for my MISTI (watch this space for deets on this!) and I’m there to get ... myself hydrated at all times. I have to get three shots. At this point

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  car and the team must defend their decision. They also get to sell the ... hours to get from concept to completion. The time is well spent though, as ... wheel has to be removed to be able to get in or out of the car. Also

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... game in a long time I am legit jealous I won't get to participate in a ... , mentor, and (now) admissions liaison since 2002. Before I came to MIT, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  't need to pack your schedule with APs to get into a good school. You know ... to pad your resume. And try to get good stats - have as few glaring ... they demonstrate your desire to challenge yourself and take risks (and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  - senior VP at Google - wrote about Steve's devotion to design: One Sunday ... thing he put up there was his treasured Mac IIsi. Later, I would come to ... "Apple fanboy." Neither does my dad, who is about as far as you can get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  getting shit done. i love setting goals because they offer opportunities to ... , however, that Zooming for n hours a day kills your will to do much aside ... bed at 10:03, i can't believe that i used to get up, eat breakfast, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  . Title Link: I Am Prepared, get it? IAP... (it's okay if you don't want to ... better? Come learn about databases to find answers to these questions, get ... -deprivation competition. Get together with friends to solve puzzles that will lead you to a

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  used indexes of chief executive compensation show close to a proportional ... the hype to see what is really going on with salaries of CEOs in the ... capitalization of the largest companies. For instance, from 1980 to 2003, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  the failing gets to be primary. This might sound surprising, since ... were the important thing, you could save your tuition money and get your ... how to fail. If you're going to be a practicing scientist or engineer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  the website as a PDF. You can fax it to 617-253-4076. If we don't get it, you'll have to get your p[arents to sign it and fax it to us at ... your best way to get to MIT on public transportation. Most of you will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007