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• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  bed, exhausted. i get myself up around 9 pm to shower. around 11:30 pm ... short talks to each other about our projects and getting peer feedback. i ... together where we get to see yet another lovely TA. all of my TAs are so

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule ... part of CPW for me was talking to other prefrosh getting to know the ... prefrosh is like an open door to visit labs, classes, and get exposed to

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  selected to travel to Stanford Splash! Let me know if you're still available ... (Spring 2012): Introduction to Cosmology Splash (Fall 2012): Introduction to Radio Astronomy, Introduction to Pulsars Spark (Spring 2013

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  : blogging for MIT admissions!) Even though I didn’t get, or even attempt to ... Computer mouse with retractable cord, which doesn’t seem to work Headphones ... the point of a career fair is to collect job prospects, not swag. In the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  get them to you in time? A: If you did not select your scores to be ... your testing by October, do not worry; you do not have to remove MIT from ... complete and you did not match to a binding school. If you take MIT off your

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  worried little kid, because we all had to line up at stations and get our ... getting to page 104 in The Giver, making me the only person at MIT who was ... basically I'm getting paid to travel around Europe and interview MIT interns

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  imagery a bit to claim the first Google search hit for “unreformed by Ikea ... time, collapsed into a high-speed parody of months that used to stretch ... orientation events that turned out to be either unrequired or just plain

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  just more consistent and you know what you're going to get going in ... , but I do get claustrophobic in an I'm-hot-asf-and-need-you-to-shut-up-so-we-can-get ... have the grill and stir-fry stations, where you can get food made-to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  Orientation and lasts for up to two weeks. - Over those two weeks, you get to ... like them and they like you, you probably end up getting a bid to join ... all of you 2010s on your way to MIT, stay openminded about not just

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  so much that i will never get the chance to do, and that hurts in an ... , getting to choose which of my tasks to tackle next instead of being forced ... "]la-ing,[/annotation]trying to blog (...the operative word is perhaps 'trying to'), and having

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  .” Months before we get to showtime in April, the opening/closing show team ... of Trello, Google Sheets, and Slack helps us get the work organized ... from backstage, we don’t actually get to watch the show. In fact, with

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  women that I’ll hopefully get to meet again soon! And stepping outside the ... [/annotation]. Money-saving tip: try getting rush and/or lottery tickets! I was able to ... TheAbove that lets you create your own hobby portfolio! Going back to my high

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  means we get to consider changes and additions to questions we include on ... of teens at his school. It is about gender and how kids are choosing to ... mostly it’s about diversity. (And as soon as he gets it back online again

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  breakfast and lunch each Saturday. I also had the opportunity to tour Google ... As my second semester at the Institute draws to a close, I've been ... came to MIT, but I had few opportunities to formally pursue it. This

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  backpack for a week Try to get over your fear of how ugly the titans are and ... mine is make a plan to lessen that 😌 Try out every pen in your house and ... Expunge the dust from every surface in your room Learn to pick locks Read

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  of which you get in May after you matriculate) and you're taken to your ... host your MIT mail. To do this you get to use a nifty little tool called ... lists on MIT's end has to happen) you'll start getting your MIT e-mail in

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  is easy: go to more public events, make friends with your friends ... ’s easy to forget that people want to care. People want to hear about your ... another point: in getting to know others, it's not only about making that

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  directions; that’s what will happen when you get to college. Very few of us end ... shuttles - For your chance to become Internet-famous, e-mail your pictures ... even got to hear me read out loud in Middle English), the art of writing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  Losbetos or Filiberto’s. But according to Google Maps, they don’t seem to ... carbonara. I was hungry and didn’t want to walk somewhere alone to get food ... that I would try out vegetarianism, just to see how it went. It wasn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  Here goes another Omnibus... sorry if I didn't get to your question ... admission office explaining what happened. I expected to get a good score for ... students where posting and I began to get a little worried. People here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006