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• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  want to major in, which department or program at MIT appeals to you and ... particularly wanted to study at MIT. I didn't look at the course catalog too ... and relevant. Perhaps similar courses are offered at other schools; I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  When I brought up at a blogger meeting that I was thinking about ... . Quizbowl at the high school level comes in a lot of different formats, and people have some strong opinions about what's good and what's bad; at the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  group, are excited to have you here :) We at East Campus are especially ... East Campus courtyard and you’ll probably see at least one person walking ... already looked at this, but if you haven’t: here’s the complete list of REX

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  My first hackathon ever was last year at TechCrunch Disrupt in New ... secure. It turns out that Sia actually started at HackMIT 2013. Hack ... leave. Miraculously, I made the cut. At the opening ceremony, we heard

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  subjects, but economics at MIT is different from AP Macro, and disciplines like CMS/STS are rarely offered at high schools. So this list can help ... . Greene GSL offers language instruction courses at a variety of levels to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  “Greater Boston Area”) While at MIT, I’ve been able to hang out with a lot ... Boat Cruise event. We're at the World Trade Center in Boston, on the dock ... enjoy meeting people from other schools and getting to know them. At MIT

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  Sleeping at night has become one of those mythical concepts this IAP ... . Thankfully, MIT never sleeps. So while I was up last morning at seven a ... beauty you can mope dreamily at, but would rather not step into, because

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  each other. At the time, Facebook was pretty basic and wasn't even open ... state. Most prefrosh didn't have smartphones (which were quite limited at ... at CPW, and many of us ended up staying in touch throughout our time at

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  Track by 8:15am. I was at Johnson at 8, only to find a line stretching ... 2014 didn't look familiar at all, as well as how much affection I felt ... nauseous all morning but forced two blueberry muffins down anyway. At some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  best way for them to figure out if they are comfortable and at home on ... live with current students and their life at MIT is somewhat different ... comments in viewing my dorm when I was a student at MIT but for me it was the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  girl at arm’s length, so that the symbol he drew on the board sits ... the theoretical physicists by the chalk handprints on their slacks.) At ... standing a foot away, grinning at me. Frank Wilczek was grinning at me. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  it so many times that it's just losing meaning at this point...) Last ... 's really good at helping you find out about yourself in that way. After all ... 'll never look at a rainbow the same way! Eating around Boston! Because I was

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  So...remember that time, way back at the end of first semester, when ... exam at MIT? please.) and I informed him that "um, yes. 8.012 is ... , when I was staying at my friend Daniel's house in New Jersey. I opened my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  , having never taken advantage of the "hey kids, look at my schedule!" post ... so much) So, let's take a look at the schedule of a first ... . (Please send any hypotheses you may have to keri-lee at mit dot edu. I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  flights of stairs from the subway, then looked at my map and declared, "I ... next to me and was like, "Got a drink?" At that time I knew it was time ... wakarimasuka?" She didn't know where it was exactly, but she looked at the map

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  because there was only one temple in the area The answer (question) is at ... .  I have won an award at a Model United Nations conference, and in ... taught Latin at Splash! since sophomore year at MIT.  On April 30, you can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  , Katelyn slept for 2 hours and still had a headache at 10:54 pm, according to ... unacceptably tragic, especially at an institution where “sleep is like currency ... . Other news: I have at this point exhausted the bloggability of not being

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  studies at Oxford. Matthew L. Gethers III, Waterbury [Connecticut], is a senior at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where is majors in ... economics at Oxford. Two from MIT win Rhodes Scholarships November 22, 2008

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  at MIT, if you even think you're interested in something, you owe it to ... creative consulting internship at 20th Century Fox when I was first ... posting with an artist at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, who was

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  nature. I stashed the water in my assigned kitchen cabinet back at Random ... is probably the least fascinating thing I have done at MIT. I've gone ... ), slept in a 3-foot long storage container at the Boston Museum, watched

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008