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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  final draft pending approval by the UA Senate. I'm proud of having contributed to it. Your Orientation experience can really shape your MIT ... you get to college, student government (sort of a misnomer in the UA

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  by training (MIT-educated in Course 2) so I wanted to know all the ... 'd answer. I know you're VERY excited, and probably want to start working on ... Please note that, as  Hello World! I'd like to introduce you to a

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  MIT’s month of “choose your own adventure” mode looks like would be to ... semester, explore boston, get ready to UROP, and train for track season ... ’ for the 1st time in college, but after that i had to get on larger poles

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  You Are LUSCIOUS I lusciously answer some of your questions

  

  lucky enough to receive. You didn't mean for me to parade by myself, did ... always struck me as a tad odd that I should be "getting to know" a college ... of the mail/website, you can get an idea for the "vibe" of each college

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  -defined problems fed to you by a benevolent manager, then you’re in luck because the ... lounge, one of the upperclassmen in my dorm stopped by to comfort me. “Don ... are intentionally designed to be solved by one or two people, ideally of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  being admitted to MIT, students are invited to CPW and get to explore all ... each individual dorm in an attempt to showcase their culture. You get to rank all the dorms by how much you want to live in them (1 through 16

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  to head over and get down with our bad selves. If you want to feel ... , "According to Google dot com, he had many lovers." This makes me go "Eggggghhhhhhh." I don't think it was at all acceptable to say "Google dot com" in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  —East Campus, West Campus, independent living groups—to try to get a sense of ... your CPW host. Please respond to them as quickly as you can--school doesn ... flops don’t count). Bring a beanie or else your head will get cold. If you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  -sentence pitch for your channel. Sarah Chieng: My channel tries to capture the ... friends and family loved  getting to see what I was up to, so I just ... hanging out with my friends. Four years is going to fly by, and you

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  be as good.) The point is, IAP is great, you get a chance to explore ... So you're interested in MIT. (Why else would you be reading these ... . So why should you spend $50,000 dollars/yr to come here?( Seriously

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  good. # “You go to university here? What’s your major?” asked a nice ... the set-up of a physics problem to me, and I remember being awed by her ... tried to move through the 20-odd majors methodically:  Course 1? (Civil

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  impressions count. Your EC only has a very limited amount of time to get to know ... . Everyone at MIT genuinely wants your interview experience to be as low ... sometimes it can be hard to find a convenient time and place for your

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  until December. A girnomous WELCOME also to the RA applicants! Your ... to me by the Admissions Office through the Shadow a Student Program ... according to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, a linguist, philosopher

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  problems on sheets of paper, and talk about your unwavering dedication to the ... phrase has evolved to be a metaphor for an irrational method to obtain some ... 't, shouldn't be the real reason. It's not getting to the heart of the matter to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  what kind of data would be helpful to answering your question. This ... ready to analyze. In order to get it ready, I need to "clean" it. What ... : I like to use Jupyter Notebooks (or Google Colab notebooks). I like

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  't worked before, in my case), and talk about logistics like how we get to ... . And sometimes we take a Lyft to get back home, but most of the time we ... . And by "we", I mean mostly them, as I had to leave a few minutes in to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  google sites website to house the forms Figuring out payment information ... to order some bracelets, crochet pins, earrings, or get a surprise ... This is, admittedly, a kind of quickly written post, but I wanted to

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  , where you're done with the process and don't have to run the gauntlet of ... about. But I was lucky enough to get into [annotation note="MIT, if that ... salty about. It's REALLY HARD to get into all of those schools. Flash

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  things I was planning on doing during IAP...and then I got distracted by ... during the first week of MIT's Independent Activities Period. On Monday ... strains' antibiotic resistance using computational methods...which is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  frowned upon to willingly do work outside of work? i get why it's bad if you're ... hanging out with your classmates. you go to classes with them, work on ... or play smash with. i used to think i'd burn out, that by doing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022