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• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  your alumni happy by admitting their kids, they might be more likely to ... your parents, and perhaps grandparents, went to a particular college ... applicant admitted takes a space which could have gone to another student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  by Rena Katz CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to sum it all up in one blog post, much like it's hard to condense your life into 500 words for the admissions office. But I shall try

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  a given time. Of course, the most hardcore physics geeks attempt to ... Solidworks model on her laptop, but apparently had time to chat with prefrosh ... to Burton-Conner and this time settled on Burton Third, home of the

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  Things are starting to get quite busy! Now that the Early Action ... time evaluating the thousands of applications we've received. This ... : ...and a similar scene from my office this time last year: Yes, still

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  't have to explain to all the postdocs what a "blog" is -- but I forgot the ... , because reshaping of the spines via the cytoskeleton can be shown to have ... prominent symptom of which is mental retardation) can be shown to have long

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  . What better way to get to know your hall? So a lot of you have ... important thing to remember when you're applying, whether you have too much to ... program readily available at my high school. I didn't have any AMC scores to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  ago. i'm going to have to deal with it for a few months. the internet ... it done in time, but that left me no time to give a good go at 6.006. i ... - thursday - today's going to be working on the 6.004 lab all day. i'll have to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  , for having had time to form friendships and find communities in person ... becomes to picture what it should be. What my freshman year should have been ... times. It’s too easy to forget, more than a year into the pandemic, that

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  've been everywhere in Boston and everybody is sold out. I just want to have ... to provide the chance to participate in random, spontaneous, fun events with large groups of people. Examples that I’ve thus far experienced have

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

   now that I finally have time to put my ideas to the page. I am still so, so ... decided, would have to be easier. I had a twelve-week internship secured for ... House. I did get some time to do things solely for myself though, which

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  "blogging" folder, which I haven't had time to set up yet ... -mail and in fingertip velocity. "Your fingers have ADD." --Mike ... have been trying to make this a year of personal improvement. Just to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  of MIT buildings have floors numbered 1 to 8. Alan: Despite CJ ... . Alan: Having walked the tunnels a few too many times, this image was ... think it is interesting to be in places that you would normally have no

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  you who get in will get to come to CPW. And some of you might have ... 'll get to experience a small slice of life at MIT to help make your decision about where to go to school. But will the slice be what you're

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  the time to walk home has been nice. :) ... rusty old bike is 19 mph; I wonder how fast I'd be able to go on a sleek road bike instead.  Only occasionally do I glance to the side and notice

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  can do, so try to have some fun in these next few weeks. Hang in there ... weren't in your file, we'd contact your school directly to get them.] ... Application Tracking portlet in MyMIT. The system is supposed to display a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  they swore to never do it again. This time they rounded up some 40 ... I should have caught up to the group by then. I paused and checked ... rail and back to MIT. This was so lovely. Next time we'll do the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  ;ll have until 8:00am this Saturday to decide whether or not they want ... did give Rush a fair try may have been surprised to learn that MIT ... fraternity (for example, because you have too many extracurriculars on your

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  Do you know what it's like to only have two classes left to graduate ... classes in previous terms I could have graduated by now!" But I am not dwelling on that. While some of my friends have completed their requirements

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  before I came to MIT, but now, I don't have much of a problem telling ... Harbison and John Dower all to yourselves, as they have no graduate student commitments. Relatedly, they have no graduate students to be Teaching Assistants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  Campus, what do you eat?” My answers have varied, from “Free food!” to “A lot of things,” to “Uhh… I mean… I certainly did. I actually have no ... have email notifications on my phone. When I see an event I want to go to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022