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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  everyone on your hall, it's harder to initiate new conversations. On the flip ... There is so much to say about residential life at MIT.  On campus ... take helps me interact with more people; I pass four suites on the way to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  Workshop this fall, to keep on trying new forms and commit to workshop a new ... scribble a new poem in my notebook. The process took about an hour on good days, longer on slow days. After that, I’d switch gears to fiction work

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  ! Remember that, and try not to travel on your own. There are no cliques during ... is the link to a mini-guide to CPW with advice on packing, planning ... clearly laying on a giant soft foof with my new friends, listening about an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  – like, 5AM late – talking to students on Saturday night of CPW. When I ... – to this day I don't remember who – pounding on the door of my host ... Uber would be arriving there and that I was on my way. Ask your host

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  , whom I thought were pretty funny. One was leaving on Friday to go to prom ... bright and early on Saturday Morning to Simmons Hall to eat some awesome ... went back to my dorm though, I made a quick stop at MacGregor convenience

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  , oh, you're graduating this semester. You need to write an essay." Turns ... to write about photopolymers. Experimentally. More on that another time ... jobs to focus on one job and classes. To focus on being happy. Most of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  ’d ride down the block on my bike, wave hi to my aunt, and return back to my ... completely until you’re here in a dorm, in a town you’ve only been to during CPW (the preview weekend in April), and on your own doing adult things

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  on that in a minute) you're bound to find a group of people with whom ... people can end up where they want to be. It all starts with your temporary ... you can re-rank the dorms you'd like to live in. Maybe REX changed your

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  WRAP-UP! As a favor to everybody who worked on the puzzle remotely ... . I'll post answers to the puzzles you guys worked on and some to ... 's a completely new kind of experience! Thanks again, more to come later

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Is it ok to go over the essay word count?

  We require applicants to follow the word limits provided on the application. Your information will not be saved if the responses are too long. You may have to "play" with your thoughts and sentences a bit to meet
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  I'm on a 13-hour flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, connecting ... broke down the most was, not surprisingly, in upstate New York, on our ... around, and say hi to the Amish kids selling baskets on the lawn for me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  blogging act, I would like to show you a completely new way to look at MIT ... white ball on top is the Green Building. Just to its left, you'll notice ... frequents these blogs! * The word "prospective" doesn't distribute to parents

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  on everything you do. Use this app to track your day and see how much ... were on Spotify. A huge part of Spotify is being able to make and share ... the day - light during daytime and warm during nighttime - to keep your

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  days Cried for about an hour on interstate 90 :( Moved to Maine with ... Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here ... ’d invited me to live with them somewhere on the east coast. I knew that not

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  making plans to build an igloo tomorrow. I've been working on a few ... it to make a program that did things on the Internet. In fact, I ... It's snowing. Hard. Blizzard-warning, dangerous-to-be-outside, MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the ... difficulty of the work, but simply jogging your brain again to compute ... you take a gap year, try to keep your mind fresh with some school

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  every once in a while it takes on new meaning that makes it all worthwhile ... interests. I guess I had a lot on my mind. I like to write, but this is ... Where to begin? Well, in order to understand me, what drives me

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  get to explore MIT on behalf of all of you. I'm new around here and so ... keep my finger on the MIT pulse and chase people around campus to get ... promise to serve you well in your quest to learn more about MIT. Let me

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  undergraduate degree, you're qualified to apply. This does mean that if your mom ... . Go, Mom, go.) If you're a younger student looking to apply to MIT ... peaks your curiosity. Sam says: I know this one girl who picked guys to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  oatmeal to boil on my one-burner camp stove: I really, really like this book ... a whole pot of oatmeal on the sidewalk, Talking to a biker and a rec ... already late. We'll have to catch up on poetry tonight. Look at all the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022