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• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  process of applying to your institution. I just you to tell me about your ... cool blog, how do you get your own radio show? do you have your own ... When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• 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 fever. You have an excuse if you're like Brandon '11, who's from Colorado ... quirky hobbies make you happy, and why. So if you're having trouble getting

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  ! ...if you're a girl) and to lead a tour of my UROP lab. But the one thing ... , and you're going to come to CPW and already know the numbers, and I won ... 'm doing the IB course with HL Math, Chem ang Bio. Say if I get admitted to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  during office hours or after class. So it is possible to get to know your ... way to get to know professors who teach your classes. 6. Jon said, haha ... State on my full scholarship, she was planning to get a pool in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Christmas Hug [UPDATE: New picture!!!] *squeeze*

  

  going to rappel from the skylight to take me out? Was I going to get ... Today was Winter Break 2008 in Lobby 7, a really pleasant way to spend your evening drinking cider, hot chocolate, and eating cookies

  • by Snively '11
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  EA Blogger Application Decisions The results are in.

  

  what you actually came here to get: the results of the EA round. For a ... I just want to say on behalf of the committee that we are truly impressed with all of the applications (and there are MANY). Your collective

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  midterms was not much better and I began to get really concerned. My fiery ... when you’re debating you expect people to attack and slash to bits your ... after researching for weeks and giving up my entire Saturday to get

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  pretty sure that you're going to MIT?", "What are you going to major in ... encourage your child to attend CPW, to see if MIT is actually a good fit for ... relevant to life at MIT in 2005 than talking to pre-1970 alums. And if you're

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  , they will get your letter in to us. And we are much more flexible with ... your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much better ... one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  dotted the MIT campus, urging people to get to 6-120 as fast as possible ... your toy yet?" "Um, no, should we?" "Well, you're about to pitch your ... patent." "Oh, you're right, um, ok, to an Athena Cluster!" Elizabeth and I

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

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  , at least.) So, yes, textbooks help, but no, you're not going to get an ... , "Cool, you guys actually get to use index cards and reference sheets. But ... they're testing isn't your ability to memorize and regurgitate (hence the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ST PATRICKS DAY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  

  gets done, but you worry some, I know But who wants to live forever, babe ... TSAI wish I could go along, babe, don't get me wrong You know you're ... HOZIER, KING OF IRELAND, IS HERE TO SPEAK:  It can't be said I'm an early

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  to see your ID. "Uh...." "You need to be over 18 to buy Tylenol." "So ... Square) So which way to Harvard? MIT student: You're at MIT, bro. Kayla '12's FB status: orgo, i'm ready to kick your ass.

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  want to get things done. i have projects i'm, in theory, excited about ... get taken. the third row goes from just me, to another person near the ... to think of not on its own, but in contrast. If you’re in your room

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  a set amount of energy or money that you can use to play your cards ... are an adventurer ascending a spire in order to slay it. Your cards ... . But it's also important to remove weak starting cards from your deck

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  your questions, I feel loved. Special shout-out to my midwest friends. Hope you're surviving the snow! Speaking of snow, we've gotten a ton of it. This morning I got to go to class as it rained ice (yes, ICE

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YoYoPhones The iPod has nothing on this.

  

  Chun To: Us Subject: Your Mission v2.008 Your mission should you choose to accept is to build 50 yo-yos including at least three parts. This ... Before you get all "zomg" on me. This is *not* the iPhone v2. MIT

  • by Bryan
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  "shopping period", in which they get to sit in on classes and decide if they ... , so we get a long time to decide our final schedules. I've been ... sessions that I'll be going to over the next month, and then I get to take

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  your psets and tests and it's much easier to fail a faceless name. Office ... to get a question in edgewise. TAs also look to avoid these OH and they ... try to go every week. It's also best if the TA that is staffed is your

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I ... getting serious and deciding what to keep.  It also means unearthing things ... about.  Free t-shirts seem to be for everything at MIT; classes

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012