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• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  blender. I was a skeptic (how can you beat WillItBlend?) but I decided to ... record of your CPW? I'd like there to be another blog similar to the one I ... details step-by-step the CPW experience. If you're up to it, I'd challenge

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  , I have no idea who you are or what you’re like, but I’m here to ... wish I had a fedora and a whip (props if you have them on your first day ... Example – If we happen to be going to the beach early on a specific day, my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  a 20-minute ferry to Spectacle Island! I visited the island on ... from Downtown Crossing, which is on the [annotation note="if you're not ... !"]Red Line.[/annotation] If you go, try to get there more than 15 minutes early

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  Facebook group that you get to join when you're a student here that's called ... that MIT doesn't admit you based on your intelligence. They admit you based on how weird you are." ***** At the integration bee: "it's like

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  How was your Halloween? Tell me about your costume & remember that ... Angus(!!) who lived on 1E and graduated in 2018   To be honest I ... excited to share them with you First is a mounted snake skeleton, look how

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  , since I seem to always be falling behind in my classes and getting royally ... building games. I remember how red my face became after I choose to perform a ... crazy dance icebreaker. I had the time of my life getting to know other

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  night becaue you thought you'd get better rest on the plane, when you're ... 's probably time to get my shoes back on. Three weeks filled with neuroscience ... practice, and a couple long shifts on the ambulance before I get to fly back

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  Office get a sense of what your passions are and how you have explored them ... 've planned on being Course 20* since before coming to MIT**, MIT students tend ... too early too. But now that I'm a sophomore, I get to start taking

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  get the hang of tacks very quickly, so we can move on to butt welds ... 's where I learned how to 3D print, lasercut, weld, and fiddle with ... myself a maker until I've learned how to operate heavy machinery? I feel

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  get more green-blue clothes but i somehow never find the time to go ... that you're not committed enough to changing yourself. i don't think that's true. you're really earnest about wanting to be better, whatever "better

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  ; far be it from me to weigh in on it with empirical evidence. But what I ... 's hard to accept brilliance at face value when, well, sub-A level grades on ... you to seek out the answers for yourself, sending you off on a journey

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  , focusing on how organisms relate to each other and their environment instead ... am nowhere closer to having an answer. This Monday I put on a nice ... longer my cup of tea. Also we get to grow microorganisms in mud and water

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  Orientation, getting lost on the way to Baker House, exploring Greek life during ... at MIT. My first reaction was, to be perfectly honest, shock. How ... how I felt when my plane first landed in Boston - when I walked onto

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  before because i was so focused on just getting work done. i’m so profoundly grateful that this field of study even exists, that i get to do work ... that i get to be here, doing the things i’m doing. sometimes there are

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  place where i've felt settled, where i know how to get around without ... out what to work on, feeling like nothing i was working on was ... entire cities' school districts to help them figure out how to manage their

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  ), on 8/25 from 6-8 PM: People will teach you how to cook and will also ... To all the prefrosh who are about to arrive / on their way here ... theme is “Wild Wild West” and we plan to deliver on this - come to the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a ... – researchers fold to academic pressures and compromise on the quality of their work to get grants, artists get stuck in bubbles that make it hard for

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  version of Facebook really helps). How did your time at MIT contribute to ... Really Good Chinese. I got to know him better last January on an IAP trip ... ashamed. Past the guilt, however, I can't help but feel inspired to hold on

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  First, an aside Today, Adam and I were on the subway heading to the ... nervewracking to realize that you're no longer the class brain, and that you can't sleepwalk your way to perfect grades anymore. My first semester at MIT, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  is language unique to humans; why are there many languages; how do languages change; is any language or dialect superior to another; and how are ... -selective motion detector neruons of flies, and learn how to do data analysis. There

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006