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• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  sponsored by MIT Admissions during which hundreds of prefrosh from around the world gather for the first time together in one spot to go up to random ... have to be honest to the prefrosh - many of you were stalked on facebook

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  aspects of their academic and student life. The survey is essential in ... enhanced while a student at MIT? How do you perceive the sense of community ... , and the results of any research or analysis using the data will be

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week: Anjum Sharma A salute to one final senior.

  

  everyone in the class. Random MIT Memory: Trying bubble tea for the first time with Matt McGann and the rest of the advising group freshman year. I didn't like the way the bobas tasted so I started shooting them out of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  , in exchange for helping take down what's left of the wallpaper in her ... had planned to go to the dinner mob of Nick "Nim" Martin '03, another 5 ... first time, but I was too late. So instead, I went with Kim to the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Get Your Wii On. A Dome Hack!!!

  

  In honor of the release of the Nintendo Wii the Great Dome found ... back to one of my favorite video games from when I was a kid, Zelda! The ... the Triforce of Power, Nayru contributed the Triforce of Wisdom, and

  • by Bryan
  • November 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  . Prior to the visit, I was terrified of taking Biology at MIT. After CPW ... . I knew that I wanted to be part of the MIT community after CPW ... paradise! There’s plenty to geek out about. You might attend a Lord of the

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

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  will be in Japan next (and it's only open two months out of the year ... - a fact I was to be reminded of when our trail merged with the most popular trail after the 8th station. (FORESHADOWING!) There were five of us

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  "] Map of restaurants I visited over the week.[/caption] Day 1 (Saturday ... custard" (from the drinks menu, which turned out to be just a bowl of corn ... fueled by the adrenaline of venturing off MIT's campus the previous day, I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  ’ve defused the situation or avoided it in the first place. Yes, there’s an ... in the class (first place went to my math rival). If they were busy ... other people. The change wasn’t one of moral goodness but self

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  question, as if I’d never snapped out of the trance of college apps, and one of the most common ones I noticed was “what are your hobbies?” But ... a sense of identity. Despite what the title of this post implies

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  and it was really interesting.  For the first half of the semester during the study of ancient Andean culture, we had labs where we spent ... the meaning of Pass/No Record.  I thought I'm going to take all

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  first day of CPW so they could study. Luckily our test is this coming ... of that quiz than any test I'd ever taken. I spotted the admissions ... things, so once I got the paper portion of Course 2 out of the way I'd be

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... future you’ve always dreamed of (and, no doubt, the one everyone *expects

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last…

  

  Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the ... 're sustaining the work that led us to want to admit you in the first place). We ... trimester system? Send us what you can - this is usually the first trimester

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  had reported the same level of satisfaction with their lives. I'm sorry ... . And to those of you who get waitlisted: Waiting's hard, yes. But the ... get off the waitlist, and you could be one of them :) To everyone: As

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  couple of months. The Afeefah that sprinted across campus in March 2020 is ... writing this post in the middle of the night - vitamin string quartet ... putting things into words seemed insurmountable. Part of the fear comes from

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... decision. We make no distinction between the importance of SATI (or TOEFL ... significant amount of time. How would only three activities look to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  talk about science at MIT? I mean, obviously it IS the institute of ... two amazing days of skiing in New Hampshire - a bunch of the ESG kids ... CPR and defibrillation can increase the chance of survival of someone in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  , software design, French, and costume design) helped avoid the sensation of ... academic study in a way that goes beyond just taking classes. As the end of ... a position that matched the type of technical work I was looking for

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  critical facet of the Indian-American experience. In one scene, where Devi is ... last few paragraphs of the essay. Disclaimer: I didn't really care about the Common App, so I kind of...spliced up some ideas from my MIT essays

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020