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• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  to be her host prior to Friday, most people were matched by admissions ... by eager MIT students, excited to reach out to you and find out all ... lunch about once a month to catch up on things, Jake lives down the hall

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  video. Take a look... MIT students take on some furry roommates By ... freshmen, Arielle Lubin had a litany of tasks to check off before classes ... , administrators say. The felines add a warm touch to a high-pressure environment of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  .S.: I was told to make a Day in the Life of an MIT Student video to revive ... comfortable around my peers. I didn't really know if I was going to find a group ... realizing how much of a shitshow the movie was, we switched to Pitch Perfect

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  would be missing a lot of class. It's good to try to plan things out ... 've been up till 3 AM in the Hayden Library (an awesome place to study, by ... studying and go to sleep. Getting all your work done is for sure a priority

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  I should do first. Making a plan calms me down and allows me to focus ... said to me many times last year by half-hearted well-intentioners who ... Tumblr is where I put a lot of this reflection. In particular, I seem to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  sure to make an appearance.) It's only been a couple of months, but I don ... the details of the day explained to us. No such luck. We checked in at a ... all stayed in the right order. Not a single thing was ever explained to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  wake up every morning to reminders that you once had less rights than a ... , in broad daylight, when a policeman chokes an unarmed black man to ... country as racially traumatized as this to heal with a president who is only

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  .  And by that, I mean our instructor said: "I want you all to design a ... , gotten some lab experience at UC Davis trying to develop a fungal ... major I ended up declaring, go to grad school, get a job at a biotech

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  some people, but it means a lot to me. Back home, I was a "regular" at a few establishments: a coffee shop by my house, another one right on Lake ... Boston, I knew not to expect midwest-levels of friendliness. I frequented a

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  by live music to my ears is definitely a pleasant reminder of home. But ... make plans to leave campus. Fortunately for me, music is just a floor ... . Now, I will start off by saying: I am by no metrics, a musician. I don

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  , a cover letter by Reif himself. Why had MIT gone to such lengths to ... yourself.” Taking a step back, it was important to make sure the burden of ... approaching the issues no one has dared to approach before.  We can take a hard

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  to be included I have created a very simple equation: LΔ or Learning ... ) Learning = to acquire knowledge or skills and (Δ) Delta = a change in some ... factors that help to give a clear understanding of what you have learned

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  yesterday?”. Maybe today I want to make sure I box out every single time a ... . l need to remind myself that being confused by a lecture or struggling ... mostly like to talk about MIT as a physical entity. “Look at this cool

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask Me Anything or discuss anything. or whatever really. what i'm trying to say is: open thread.

  

  This summer I wrote a bloggerGuilt script to help me keep track of ... various excuses and instead try to make it up to you. I'm sitting at home in ... realized that I was in the lower half of the distribution of blogs by various

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  and loose, so I needed to hand-sew it tight. My laptop makes a cameo ... how the process went.   I went to a hippie middle school with 75 students in a basement beneath an aerial dance studio. We got to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  arriving on campus, upperclassmen are returning to campus, admissions ... by the Video4Colleges podcast about the drone delivery video from Pi ... splits video), and the V4C folks wanted to know more about the creative

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  need to behave around you? Might I make a small suggestion? DO. Then go ... originally going to be longer and angrier. And delivered by a hit man. A hit ... messed up when they do it at the airport. Let me put you on a flight to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  , you might even contemplate how to make a nice triangle in front of the ... [By Anjali T. '09] This summer, I didn't happen to pull off what ... Observatory built. The Observatory of Paris was a great place to work, not only

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  portfolio make reasonable sense to be reviewed by faculty and staff experts at ... designed to help the admissions committee get to know you as a full person—a ... application this way to help us deliver on our charge to enroll a vibrant

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  gone by. So if you come to campus, I hope you'll take a tour. You won ... I have confession to make...it's somewhat embarrassing but I think it ... , someone stopped by to see me, or worse yet...it rained and why on earth

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010