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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  glass. And let’s make the pumpkin colourful! Roll the new layer of glass ... start blowing. While you’re blowing, push on the tip of the glass with ... before… … OH! The frit should go on the FIRST layer of clear glass, not

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  ! *        *        * Dear Prefrosh, In a few days, over a thousand of you will descend on MIT ... sister Lisa sat in on my classes - they got a crash course on galaxy ... " for the rest of his life), Middle English and the Canterbury Tales (they

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  I’ve never really understood the appeal of beach vacations. I spend a day relaxing and then have to recover from the effort of recuperation ... or be on campus and take classes and do a million things? You can. Or

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  fact that most of the events are on Saturday afternoons, which means like ... conclusion, the MIT marching band is the greatest musical group of the new ... DID YOU KNOW? Kelly Clarkson was the most-played artist on American

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  was a solid period of time where I felt pretty set on my major. I ... ’t dislike physics at all (outside of doing badly on tests, I would say), so I ... begrudgingly dropped the class given that, and my worry of taking quite the L on

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  . Instead of sleeping, I watched some Spanish-language television dramas on ... events (MedLinks, CSC Chinese new year banquet, Class of 2017 ring delivery ... use to store loose rubber bands in. Goodnight pile of snacks on the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  amount of hours spent on the computer, our blasters, if I may say so ... of you probably know what it's like to work on large projects like ... sketched lots of ideas. We shared many laughs. We made new friends

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  possible jump on the nerve-racking process of applying to college, as if they ... The MIT Freshman Application will open on August 19th. Our ... Doc of the various deadlines and requirements for all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Tracking now available You can check the status of your application components now on MyMIT.

  

  Now that our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the ... . MyMIT Application Tracking This is a good time for you to check up on the status of your application components. The Application Tracking will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  time I spend on each one. Then I just kind of stared at the numbers. They ... part i it's been kind of a hard fall. all mit students are different, and each of us has a different capacity for extracurriculars

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  For a good portion of my first ever IAP, I explored ancient sites in Greece with 19 other MIT students and a trio of professors from the MIT ... ;   better than the boston skyline from our side of the charles? you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  Bebras' focus on accessibility, both in terms of geographic outreach but ... 's available between 9 - 20 November and sports an entirely new set of ... than 30 countries and includes hundreds of thousands of student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , probably more than you realize (ooooo, cryptic). Burton-Conner has all of its activities planned, our new shirts just got here (3 boxes containing several ... first day of CPW so they could study. Luckily our test is this coming

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  process, we must also be careful to provide a broad spectrum of the MIT ... decided to add an Early Action (EA) round for a couple of reasons - first ... freshmen. (We have plenty of crusty old upperclassmen bloggers to cover

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  I've just finished in New York City, where I did my last two days of ... application on your own and write all your own essays without any of these "paid ... where, with all of the admissions officers finally together after a long

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  us when we were trying to install it on the balcony of E entry, because ... in almost all of the above items) remarked on how he would gladly venmo ... time to provide SFS with feedback on our new award letter for first year

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  the aid of time-temperature graphs on the chalkboard, discussed lipids ... -hour lecture on the science of chocolate with pots of melted chocolate chips as ... consistency. Ms. Allen and Ms. Segall were keeping an eye on the pots of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  -- he knows, according to his own estimate, 70% of the skiiers on the US ... outside several of the dormitories, including Burton-Conner, Macgregor, New ... summers ago to develop a certain kind of airplane on his own. But most of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  have any questions. Also, I'd love to hear your thoughts on any of the ... . There is a range of things freshmen can do on campus—don’t give up hope ... lots of on-campus events while on Pass/No Record. Try to sign up for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  falling under the term: every branch of engineering - from aeronautics, to ... the Institute. More importantly, in ways, it's a bit of an art, too. That's what I learned this past weekend, when MIT's Association of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011