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• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  critical to your undergraduate experience, by all means poke around at the ... show off their unique cultures, get to know you, and help you get a ... relaxed and listen to music, snack on a sandwich, or just hangout with your

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  RA Blogger Applications Due Wednesday 9/6 At Noon Extended deadline...

  

  forgot to remind you, so I've extended the deadline. :-) If you wish to be considered, please get your application in on time! We will try to make decisions by early next week, but the first priority is launching the new site

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  completed by you, the applicant. This form serves two purposes: to share your ... are looking forward to getting your form on time. Thanks for taking care ... to worry about “getting it wrong” -- don’t stress! What is it? The MIT

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 17, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  inviting (and so open to you losing several weeks of your life to them ... tomorrow/Saturday at pi time). but we're not going to talk about any of that ... good that this world has to offer. this post is that place. here are some

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  wondering what's happening to your applications. The honest truth is, we ... we're trying our hardest to get through the thousands of applications ... room is well lit and good sound system... but dogs can get to me easily

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  Engineering Tools." 2.670's job is to get students familiar with the tools and ... competition to see whose engine ran the fastest. This year there is a new ... answered by just reading the admissions website) and letting comment spam

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• 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 History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of ... to Activity in MIT Building B to your dorm room without ever leaving ... -up to my first post about trying new things, and looking for adventure

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  wanted to just sample a new song or album before you paid anything for it ... , curated by the bloggers, to provide motivational music for you, dear reader ... 't listen to all of them them or censor anything, so y'know, use your judgment

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  easiest way to get me to do something is to convince me that I am either ... plan an achievable timeline for what needed to be done when, and by whom ... when I ask a question, it is not greeted by silence? I'd like to be able

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  observed that "your last name* maps to a rare earth element whose compounds ... entrance, that's GREAT: you have time to break the ice! So, before your ... MIT website: I'm an AFFILIATE now. No longer a student! Maybe that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  makes you a lot more attractive to graduate institutions -- and, once you're ... for what you're going to do with the grant money (a very important part ... example, you want to discuss the broader impacts of your work on society and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  tend to be less undergraduate-heavy, populated primarily by researchers ... fascinated by retro tech and games (any Pico-8 fans in the chat), so I had to ... ="600"] they had some actual Commodore 64 computers there!!! I need to get

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  MIT. His to-do list is a mile long.) Anyway, new portlets. Here are the ... media, customized to your preferences, right in your portal. #2 OCW ... New portlets are coming soon. Not sure how soon, but as soon as I can

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  Congratulations on being accepted to MIT! You're amazing! And your hair looks especially good today! Did you do something new to it? Nope ... - what's your story? Feel free to share in the form of pictures, haiku

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  first lab was to design a balsa glider. By telling us to do things before ... It's snowing. Hard. Blizzard-warning, dangerous-to-be-outside, MIT-is-closed hard. But people like to stay active; my hall, for instance, is currently

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  for hours. The heat gets to you slowly. Blisters blossom all over your ... the end, but each of the classes felt new and valuable. I took Weld Your ... half-finished lyra I was itching to work on. As long as this shiny new

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  getting some information about the recipe to write a short intro blurb ... of the semester when we try to get the issue done and printed, but it’s incredibly rewarding to hold the finished product in your hands. The whole

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  , so, you've seen all the entries, but lets say you want to write your own? Click "New Entry" and you are taken to the composition. screen ... at all of the options that drop down, we get to choose from those. We

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  to recalibrate your brains: that's awesome.) The tradition has served ... used to be really good at taking tests. I never had any kind of test ... right from freshman year, I came up with a plan to help me to stay calm

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008