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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  ability to make reasonable judgments, however. So, whether or not you're considering MIT (if not, you might be on the wrong website), here's my advice ... started to understand MIT as an institute built on cooperative, immersive

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  delicious thing on the planet. 4. Unplugging pressure cookers can lead to explosions. I was on call with Daniel one day to go over a [annotation note ... trash is overflowing and you can't get a good grasp on it and all your

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

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  us scattered in 17 rooms on the first two floors of New House, one of ... , you'll get to interact with a sampling of the most active groups on ... offered at MIT will be there to address your questions. There's always been

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  ’s a myriad of expressions on their different faces that I’m trying to ... out supplies, building bathrooms, and helping to treat people on this ... 9-to-5 that I couldn’t quite put a finger on until my first day

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  Wow, most exciting/eventful two days ever. I'm very sad to say that 2.007 has come to a close. If you're saying, "2.007, huh?" click here and read about the contest description on Bryan's blog. The four years at MIT are

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  around on the white wall in whatever direction it wanted to go. No mistakes ... quickly evolving as he adds more layers (and invites friends to do the same ... A few weeks ago, a friend at Princeton traveled up to Cambridge for

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  - hello, fellow kids. Are you as stuck on what to write your college essays ... get started on them. That doesn’t mean that they weren’t hard to write ... you who are now in college and used Google Docs to write your essays, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• 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 ... , Girona[/caption] 9/8/2025 Dear blog, Last night, I arrived to Figueres ... the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Video: New Zigzag MIT's podcast takes on athletics on campus, and more.

  

  A new episode of MIT's video podcast, Zigzag, is now available. It includes a nice piece on MIT athletics as well as a Thanksgiving story ... alternately hosted by Marsha Bolton from the President's Office and myself. To

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  learning about safety in the lab, since you're going to be working with glass ... long sticks that you put glass on the end of, but we'll get to the ... molten glass is and collecting some on the end of your pipe. Finally, we

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  ways to feel lost:" I feel lost on a much deeper level than ever before ... particularly new or unexpected, and anyone who knows me will be the first to roll ... of a better word. There's a big pressure to frame your research and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  tests and post your observations if you happen to have a pair of Avatar 3D ... Today I will tell you how to get into MIT. You get into MIT by wearing thick, waterproof shoes, because the road to MIT is paved with slush

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  not available. We will reach out to these students with instructions on ... by you, the applicant. The MYR serves two purposes: to share your ... we really want is to get the MYR as soon as possible when your grades

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  during the committee process to other individuals from your school or area ... more students to MIT than others, even when a student from a nameless ... schools happen to have the personality that clicks with MIT? I'm speaking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  classes but lots of fun, aka that thing you constantly talk about with your friends back home to make them jealous.  Here's a quick recap of what I ... really excited about snow. The ones who keep yapping on about how pretty

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  some scrambling on our part to put together something passable. After ... . (Thanks Rena. Again.) Wrap a black T-shirt around your head according to one of numerous youtube videos on how to be a ninja. (Thanks Rena. Wow

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  Market on Saturday and load up on the cherries and avocados, not to mention ... your command. *goes to cross bridge* Um, crap, no sidewalk or bike lane ... me to skate on. I tried going left, skating for a while to see if there

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  watching a History Channel special on the Kennedys), I had to come in at 7 ... attach slippery objects to my feet and get on a frozen chair dangling from ... taking...) -- according to the website, "The swim test requires that you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  time to sleep lately, let alone blog, but I just thought I'd give a quick ... shock, even for someone from New Jersey, which is pretty humid as well. It's weird to realize how easily you can immerse yourself in something, and not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  good time for you to check your application tracking on MyMIT. It will ... your TOEFL scores, make sure the name on your application is exactly the same as it is on your TOEFL registration. If it is not, please send us an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008