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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  only covered a pinprick of what was in store for us. And to everyone who ... . It’s a life skill you’ll have to get used to if you come to MIT ... in love with one and all you want to do is spend ALL your time there

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  . We all get to see MIT through your eyes as the wonderful, bizzarre, and ... major. In 2015, as a crimson- and short-haired freshman with glasses, I ... + textbook store), it feels a lot better to get a custom MIT t-shirt for free

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  's bed, Nixon sheds a lot of goldish-orange fur, Voight meows to himself in ... new to hall, having arrived in a kennel on Delta Airlines from a place ... windowsill to get a better view. * Dr. Popular can make every noise possible

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  playing. The game takes a pretty long time to complete, but it’s choose your ... to get your hands on the prized diploma, but it’s way more fun to ... . The long term goal is to be able to correctly fill in a blank map of MIT

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  of the Fae was used to grieve loved ones, ie a mother that died in ... checked out a few short story books with a similar second-person style to ... with a career in STEM. This deep dedication to a humanities field was so

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please Vote for My Idea for the Obama Administration! Change.org is sponsoring a competition whereby anyone can post an idea for making America better.…

  

  Change.org, MySpace, and more than a dozen high-profile NGOs. In short, the ... appreciate your taking a few seconds to cast your vote and bring my idea closer ... to do is go here and click on the "Vote" icon in the top left

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  choice in going back to China. But I felt a pang of both regret and longing ... anything particularly related to my major--in fact, my proposal for a mini ... Ethiopia in January, much more able to handle myself in Shanghai, to get

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  in 3 months? The answer is to shorten your cycle time by aiming for ... companies, Sam says, is that they can aim to get 10% better every week. Short ... goal of colonizing Mars.  You can't get to Mars without making a lot of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure ... happened to me in these two and a half weeks in just one measly blog post ... has learned the art of maintaining a balanced and fulfilled life in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  there and do nothing. But in a few rocks, you can get those forces to point in the same direction and stay that way. Add them up, and you get a ... definitely in the no-no set of words. Putting it all together To make a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  undergrads are destined to get short shrift. Apparently undergrads are less fun ... graduate student in physical chemistry. It's good to get different ... as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  specifically, I live in 2 East, or 2E for short. 2E is like a family to me, and I ... it in another post, but for now, I wanted to give a small room tour! I ... , all our beds are lofted. This allowed us to use a ton of more space in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  . If your EC has not gotten back to you, but it has been only a short ... allow you to preview your application as a PDF. This PDF is exactly how ... MIT as a school to receive your scores directly or we will not receive

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  , what information to include and focus on, and how to write for a comic artist in addition to your future audience. As time progressed, our writing assignments grew in length (from a 1-page comic to a 20-page full issue with a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  , getting around in the rain safely and protecting your wheelchair from short ... LED rocks and the capacitive touch sensing to detect a user's hand. In ... Floe, not as a product to get rid of ice dams, but to create channels

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  to do an entry introducing myself in a survey-type format. If you have any personal questions you'd like me to answer, just leave them in a ... what does a chemical engineer do in the real world? Well, according to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  much time; at midnight, a blogger moratorium kicks in. To respect the ... interface. I need to tell you a story, prospective students and fellow MIT ... Sunday. It is now 11:04pm on Friday. I therefore have 56 minutes to open a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  read parenting books when I was a kid--books like How to Speak So ... of a Skinned Knee--and marked the pages I thought my parents should ... . James' books on "Living the Simple Life" by involving your kids in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... to get into the only theater in Boston showing Brokeback Mountain on ... to "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim" by David Sedaris, (hey

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  . I've got the opportunity to get an MIT grad degree in a really mind ... right time. Like Yogi Berra said: when you get to a fork in the road ... frankly thought it would be a short stopover on my way to law school. I was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012