Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  and at home on our campus and the best way for you to be comfortable ... life at MIT is somewhat different than mine was when I was here. I'm sure ... dorm when I was a student at MIT but for me it was the perfect choice for

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  experienced my CPW, two years ago, through a downpour. I was temped at Mac ... . I spent most of my CPW at East Campus, because I was convinced I would live there (I don’t). I gawked at nerdy shirts at the COOP, which I would

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  Sims 3 until the next flight at 8:45 a.m. Sims 3 or no Sims 3, sitting around at the airport can be a drag.. and having no one to talk to makes it ... school friend, and David, a fellow Dallas admit, at the airport! Minor

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  ’S EVENTS AT MIT TODAY TOUR AT MIT BUSH BUILDING CAMBRIDGE, MA 12:00 PM EDT The President will tour a research laboratory at the Massachusetts ... MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE). Since his arrival at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  . His father works at a home entertainment company in Salem. His mother works in the tech services department for Franklin County schools. At ... at FCHS with a grade point average above 4.0. Craighead was vice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  by Donald Guy Oh I wish that I were back again at Tech.. Well, we ... Logs standard repertoire) that (at least in bits) more accurately ... seriously how I am feeling at the moment. Like a lot of prefrosh, I am dealing

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  are having at school. Or maybe it's a bucket, swinging by the handle ... exhibit at the Deitch Gallery in New York, inspired by his new movie, Be ... . He served as an artist-in-residence at MIT in 2005 and 2006, and also

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  ideas. So, you all probably has heard that "getting an education at MIT ... , it's very much true. At MIT, the courses are not just fast-paced; they ... classes at MIT is like riding a train whose speed increases exponentially

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  sullen students recognize each other in line at La Verde's. Tiredly, the ... project I've got due at the end of the week. My group hasn't even met yet." Suddenly, out of nowhere: "Oh, and I just added a UROP, so I'm now at 72

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  of sports at MIT, and a lot of ways to get involved with physical ... /baseball/basketball/other projectile. Varsity sports are open only to undergraduates. The programs at ... 're interested in playing a varsity sport at MIT, you should fill out the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  might have, probably if you're Jewish, is about Hillel at MIT. Let me tell you, Hillel is very active at MIT. They wouldn't stop writing, calling, and e-mailing me for my first year at MIT. It all started when I got a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  major to go to graduate school in biology, but you should have at least ... . (Luckily, that's not a problem for most of us at MIT -- 80% of MIT undergrads participate in research at some point during their four years.) After you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  ). The conference was held at Washington University (where former MIT ... hosts at WashU. The conference was attended by nearly 400 US university ... abroad, as well as some international student advisors at universities and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  After three and a half years of being at this school, I've taken quite a few classes. What have I even learned from them? I'm bad at ... Better So People Listen More We gave a lot of talks to get better at

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  rinsed or used mouthwash, and no dentist ever yelled at me because we were ... couldn’t work for more than a few minutes at a time without getting ... nine months straight. back when i was at home i would go on runs every

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  questions and comments at the Early Action webcast. I've enjoyed getting to ... good hands with y'all. Before I met you, one chilly autumn night at ... would compete over who has already done more of the problems. At first, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  thousand times since I’ve arrived at MIT, but it’s never phrased exactly like ... mostly like to talk about MIT as a physical entity. “Look at this cool ... ’ve been marinating this post all semester, so it’s always sort of been at

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

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  subtract the 4 minutes I spent staring at the squiggly darkness inside of my ... morning, however, when I woke up at 9:29am for the last conference tennis ... . What I didn’t realize at the time was that the crack in my façade of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  universe," said Merritt Boyd Meet Merritt Boyd, the smartest student at North ... , Cornell, and Berkeley. He decided to go to college at M.I.T. in Boston. "The ... studying astrophysics at M.I.T. had to get him to explain exactly what that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  from current students. The Resonance shindig at the end was nothing short ... Resonance and the Logs, heh. I <3 acappella, especially at MIT. Score one ... ?", "Will you be at CPW?" but also other things; for instance, the organizer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005