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• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  have to be honest to the prefrosh - many of you were stalked on facebook ... about you to maximize your experience when you come here. For example, my ... we are so excited to see your faces in just two days! All of this

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  's around! He's a busy guy, after all), whether it's to chat, to get advice or an ego-boost, or even to crash on his couch. And so a few of my friends ... I would be the "distraction" and get Ben to leave 3-107, while

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  how to talk about anything but science? A. Well, most of us don't. But ... epithet. Q. (related to previous) Do you spend all your time studying? A. If we spent all our time studying, how would we have time to be in all

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  from? Do you even know how the water gets from the tank in your basement ... the complexity of getting water to places that don’t have it. I was ... , streams, and rivers? Third, how do people “get” water? And lastly, this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  Indiana. But these are just a few so be sure to check the listing on your ... I hope you’re all getting excited for Campus Preview Weekend coming ... to the class of 2018. If there’s an event in your area, you should

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  minimum needed to pass your classes, usually resulting from MIT's pass ... ="MIT's Writing course/major"]21W[/annotation] classes are HARD to get into. In the ... even want a shot at getting into these classes”. Well, this was news to

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  India, figured out how to do a stopover on the way for a friend’s recital ... always on the move, always trying to figure out where the next place I can ... the course of my life and set me on a path to learn more about

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  , someone stopped by to see me, or worse yet...it rained and why on earth ... that I wanted to go on a tour but didn't want the other people on the tour to know I worked in Admissions instead wanting them to get pay

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  him know we'll have to cancel Sunday's meeting, and he works on getting ... that there is room on the 7:30ish flight if I want to try and get on that ... how it looks, I found it to be very fun and interesting to drive. 10

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  because I know my team depends on me to be at my best each day at practice ... part of a team, and getting out on the water every morning helps me de ... I always seem to know I’m back at MIT when I can vaguely hear my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  dorm to work on the project over the weekend, and also get an extra part ... playsentations, so getting to class on time with the supplies was really important ... /facebook/snapchat stories. For the uninitiated, you will quickly pick up on how it works as

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  had fabricated something out of nothing. I clung on to my friend because ... , my roommate needs me") to get out as fast as possible. I tried to ... conversation. Maintain a conversation. You're a fucking human being, how hard is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  challenge, and I still want one. But I want to focus on learning how to solve ... , temperate weather of Boston? How's family? Your brother still asking you to ... , I get nothing.  tick Everyone here is brilliant. How the fuck did I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  and over. I hate how sometimes my Lola gets frustrated when she has to ... back as my half blind Lolo would speed his way back to our house on the ... how hard I tried to deny it, but there was a larger part of me that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  ! How much do you want to get out of these 4 or so years of your life? Are ... uber to my Airbnb and after meeting my host and getting the run down on ... importantly how much are you willing to expand your horizons? These are all

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some students on our ... waitlist - about how our process works, what you need to do if you are still

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some students on our ... waitlist - about how our process works, what you need to do if you are still

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Vindicated! And the summer of FREEdom begins. (Pictures added)

  

  an "answers to your questions" entry on Friday, so if you have any ... Committee on Academic Performance, but guess what, NO PROBLEM SETS! And thus, when you don't have psets, you go to concerts right? How about free

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  jump out of your nightmare to dawn’s peace, resting on wounds like dew on ... been an increasing sense of trying to control my life and how the future unfolds because uncertainty is scary and it is valid to want to guide how

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  gains an understanding of how your body actually responds to different ... a personalized plan to help you optimize your health based on your own ... FPOPs are freshman pre-orientation programs, where you get to come to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016