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• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  application is, by its very nature, an invitation for you to highlight your ... the list, though, I do have a few quick things to say. For starters, I ... help you get a new perspective on the application process. I don't expect

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  It's pretty hard to live in Boston and not get swept away by Red Sox ... under trees and getting hit in the face by leaves, or maybe you like ... the fact that the deadlines are starting to pop up. (Save that for when

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  every meal for the past eighteen years, it's safe to say that I'm a pretty ... , spurring me to scream for Selena, the official bug person in this apartment ... . "Just freeze it for a few days to kill off the larvae. It'll be fine." We

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  . Convince the adMITs to come to CPW. Getting them to come to campus is the best way to help them find their place at MIT. Get advice from alumni about the future or get inspired by their lives in general. Have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make ... planned for 2020, but regardless I think it's good to always set goals! Gym ... apartment gym has closed again, but I'm hoping to get back into the swing of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  explaining what happened. I expected to get a good score for the TOEFL... I ... 't sure what method to use, by writing 2 answers on the paper, you actually ... round get saved in our folders and considered again, along with new RA

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  every year for a few years, I suppose it's supposed to signify the first ... making posts, and to meet the new and senior bloggers. This year ... thought. When a nurse came in to see me and asked what I was in for, I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have ... that prospective students can review to help determine if MIT is the
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  writing an "apologies for being too hosed to post" entry and never finished ... reading the textbooks I got for my birthday. By the way, I turned eighteen ... all frosh were required to live on campus starting in 2002) is for

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  I went home for about two weeks before IAP started. I went to all the ... was back on a plane to Massachusetts for the beginning of IAP. People were always shocked I had to head back so early for what they presume is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  day has been exciting and full of surprises. I usually get to the office ... , and if you don’t understand how to use a tool, for instance, you can be ... factory, makes for some really great mornings. I can’t begin to emphasize

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  took a bunch of classes at a local college, you're going to have to get ... , in each of these topics to choose from, but that's for a later entry ... FIRST SEMESTER TRANSCRIPT The other side to that is that you can't get an

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  MIT are paying for flights for students to get to Boston (CPW). Is that ... blog, I do fully expect for you to stop by my office (3-107) in the fall ... register by the deadline and then try to register late. Also, it is true that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  anyway. He went into the bathroom to get some water and I returned to our ... finally come to an end, and with it, my first year at MIT. For me, the end ... in New York for a couple of days. We’ll spend some time participating

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  before you come to MIT and get screwed over by the tsunami of work that is ... you can get to MIT significantly before September. Well, the choices are ... that took you forever to get right. Some of you might decide that you

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  So summertime brings me to a crossroads in life, my fraternity's chef gets a summer vacation, I'm morally opposed to eating Top Ramen or hot ... included mixed vegetables cooked by my former roommate, but he decided to add

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  continued to blog and had a few other entries by another student, I believe ... , investing in new technologies and ideas), I am so proud to wear my brass rat ... a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the Facebook

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  myself to someone new, I get the opportunity to meet myself again. I know ... . Despite all my best efforts, I couldn’t get the lock to turn. My host family ... for MIT's Global Teaching Labs, which sends students abroad to teach in

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  juice. I’ve been waiting most of my teenage years for the freedom to drink ... is probably not the most important thing I’ve gained by coming to MIT ... project. Almost immediately, I was admonished for not wearing close-toed

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  for those who aren't quite sure of what to do, I would suspect that the ... reason for the relative smallness of the major is probably something to do ... for uncertainty, though not so much as to make the models intractable

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016