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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  CPW 2014 was the reason I chose MIT. At the time, the Institute wasn ... . Prior to the visit, I was terrified of taking Biology at MIT. After CPW ... most memorable CPW moments was going at 2am(!) to the Firehose lecture

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

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  the best college events in the nation—Campus Preview Weekend at MIT ... to cut out any part of it. Feel free to just look at the pictures. So ... ”. Thursday I arrived at the campus at around 9 and almost immediately met up

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  This IAP, I took part in a writing workshop at MIT known as Flipping ... ~5 minute (true and personal) story about challenge and resilience at ... this: I got a lot out of writing about my experience at MIT-- the ups and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  Museum took advantage of the day to announce their new home at...314 Main ... choice that seemed broadly appreciated by the world at large (or at least ... mailing list culture I really appreciate that I work at a place where

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  procedure and jewelry. Once at MIT, I did some research about where to get pierced, what types of piercings I wanted, and how much it would cost. At ... employees at Chameleon were impressively kind and educational. Chameleon is my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  aware, the racial tensions in America are currently at an all-time high ... ?" I am sure these are a question everyone has seen at least once, if not ... spoke with an icy frustration. My parents were not new to this process. At

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  admitted students choosing to enroll at MIT (also known in admissions ... . At that point, our wait list will close, and we will not be admitting ... who was wait listed at my first choice college in high school (but didn

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  , Veteran's Day and the last day of our campaign, we set up at one of our MIT ... goal was to raise at least $100 but more importantly to spread our ... -sufficient, Cody Chamberlain, community manager at TechHub Boston, a unique, recently

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  room with mirrors for walls, from 9-10am on Mondays and Wednesdays. At 10 ... PE classes begin at 10 minutes past the hour, and end at 10 minutes ... -Club lounge at noon, printed a make-up form, and went. I arrived a few minutes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Calm Down and Breathe Heeeeeehooooooo

  

  In which my brother and I embarassingly parody a song (first one to recognize it gets some brownie points):  Edit: Evidently I am not so good at predicting outcomes of NFL games. But seeing how this post-season has been

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  about.  Free t-shirts seem to be for everything at MIT; classes ... a member of the rowing team, I have had the same locker at the Pierce ... give a preview of my four years at MIT in the artistic form of my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  The Infinite Corridor at MIT is the pulsing spine of central campus ... visits at least once every day. Because it's MIT, the Infinite is also a ... be serious and silly at the same time. For example, today is the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  :02 pm – found a neat sports duffle and sweater at Cures Thrift Store 7:45pm – heard the BLAH band at the 14th St/Union Square Station while waiting for the L train. They were great! 7:56 pm – heard ANOTHER band at

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  A friend of mine ended up studying lit at a nearby college here in ... (which I've traded a few sleeping hours for at market price) surrounded by ... to summarize life at MIT than the segway jousting at the end. *This

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  exciting to look at)... I looked at the empty i3 DVD slot on the inside ... year this time, I looked at these pages with no particular attention to ... up on first impressions… I’m constantly in awe at how different someone

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  ’10 had told us there were several castles we could look at. Apparently, we fail at finding them though, so instead of gazing open-mouthed at elegant stone terraces, we trekked up a mountain, at the top of which was a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Cheat Sheet This amazed me when I first saw it.

  

  Mystery Hunt is a yearly tradition at MIT, but this isn't an entry about Mystery Hunt. This is an entry about one of the tools our team has for Mystery Hunt. We rarely used it, but the sheer amount of information

  • by Snively '11
  • August 2, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Being First is Important There can be many firsts

  

  casually glance at the first letters. You know, just in the spirit of things. : )

  • by Snively '11
  • May 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  This week in verse There's a song that describes exactly what I'm feeling right now.

  

  right back at him and said, "Why visit me? You've been through Hell

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  enjoyed CPW as much as I did. It was great to meet many of you at the "Meet ... who were at CPW, what did you enjoy most? What was good? I've heard a ... us know your decision through the online reply form at MyMIT. You have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009