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• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  now... In any case, it's easy to get lost in the details of MIT as a ... aiming to get tonight? Do you have enough food to survive?  With whom will ... have a flexible plan A, B, and C It's hard to get anywhere without some

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  burned the midnight oil already, you’ll get to hear a couple of my thoughts ... Fun fact about me, on days when I don’t have much to do, especially ... curling up with a cup of tea, I sometimes like to just sit around and

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MTB Party Pic & TechTV CPW Coverage Some fun ways to remember the weekend...

  

  fun reliving the memories, and I'll talk to you all when I get back next ... Hi folks, It was truly AWESOME to spend lots of time with all of you ... update before I depart for a few days of vacation... First, a big thanks to

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program: Now Taking Requests Plus... a fun mitadmissions.org milestone!

  

  two weeks notice prior to your arrival, we've already begun taking ... , finals week, etc.) Please try not to request a visit less than 2 weeks in advance You can only select dates up to 60 days in advance During

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  in the garage and I use it to get to A to B. My car at college rests in ... learning, and if an education is what you want your daughter or son to get ... time awesome to think that I'm actually growing up and doing my own

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  nothing special

  

  get to come back a couple weeks early in the fall for free, in exchange ... , it's Sunday. :-) It will be fun to spend the summer at MIT. Summer housing is available to basically any continuing undergrad -- the cost is

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  is that you want to worry about, what you want to get out of this place ... . You didn't get an A. You got a P. Just like _________ over there having ... statement to go unchallenged. It's not that it's untrue, there are certainly

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Listen to “MIT Is…” with Cynthia F. ‘18 on the MIT Trashion Show, escaping the MIT bubble, and UROPing at the Media Lab

  

  'll meet and get to know our future host, Cynthia F. '18, as well as learn a ... around the idea of an audio thing for awhile, and decided to give it a shot ... guestblogger. Kellen works with MIT students to run the @MITStudents accounts on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  prefrosh, as so many hosts refer to theirs, arrived on Thursday morning. We talked about logistics; this is how you get to East Campus, this is the couch you'll sleep in, I'm gonna head to class now. The first class I had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  figure out what I need to do to get into grad school, or if I even want to go to grad school? How do I get a credit card? Is getting one ... ?  Should I have gone to a non-tech school?  I never see anyone pay to get

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  available to me? Does work study mean that I'll get a hair-net & spoon for ... earnest to think about where to apply for college. For some of you it means ... gracious to send you. I know that most of you will put it all in a big box

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  that I was in! 2. Arriving at CPW and getting escorted to the second ... the restaurant, so I had to get even closer to my audience to retrieve ... . Get a picture with Tim the Beaver. I have yet to get a picture with Tim

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  % effective!): A PSA to all MIT students with uteruses: YOU CAN GET AN IUD FOR ... thing and if you're considering getting an IUD, then you don't have to go ... people as this is to me, but I honestly didn't know that I could get an IUD

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  to get good competitions (all by my own effort) to follow my passions ... million things to get into college. You just have to do a few things that ... topic post but I think its more important to get the message across. On

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  required to get across the bridge, even if you take Saferide, is sometimes ... PRODUCTIVITY just don’t know what to do with ourselves. So we actually get to ... ourselves out of bed at the ungodly hour of 9:30 so that we could get over to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  , K., texted me asking what was taking me so long to get back, since it ... for me to get back. Over the course of the last semester, my room has ... them, that energy, the fact that they'll get to have four years on this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  heart, and I didn't want to make things worse by allowing myself to get ... have two attitudes about: the get-used-to-it or shut-it-down-immediately-by-telling-people-to ... social implications of getting into colleges. It's such good news, you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  grading systems. We want you to know that we accept whatever grades your school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... assessments, or something else. In some cases, you may have the ability to
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  attempting to refute that - my blog is what it is, and the folks who "get it ... sacrifice your true passions to get that A in French, but at what cost? Let ... - I think it's always good to check in with a school between getting

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  here so it looks like we get to skip the Intl admissions part of the ... undergraduates because it allows a chance for young students to get research under ... :29 The rumor is that you need perfect scores to get into MIT. Wrong Scores

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008