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• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  Victoria will be staying with me!!!   Although Victoria and I planned for me ... have to be honest to the prefrosh - many of you were stalked on facebook ... first time on campus, come for a tour of campus! Us tour guides will be

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  everything else that can be said about it. the fact that i chose mit says ... choice doesn't exist, and you will have to decide eventually. the things ... being in mit. despite that, i'm still happy i chose mit. the other day i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  nowadays. I will be the first to admit that I'm very vocal. And also very ... the first to speak, always be the first to call out. But in recent years ... will come a time where I won't be there to say something. This happens

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  the damage and we realize that it will be months before any sense of ... situation. The feeling of anguish and helplessness can be overwhelming. Life ... disaster, and it's just too early to tell what the best course of action will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  staff will be visiting 70 US cities this September and October, from ... the months to come. For example, next month I'll be attending a ... I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  Cafe. I want to be that cool. Perhaps someday I will be. In the ... famous work) just might be my favorite place on earth - in the warmer ... Sunday. One would think I'd be efficient at it by now, but I'm still

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  here, but um...that'd just be weird. Because the rest of this entry is SO ... , completely mind-numbing oddities that can be found in the tubes. Do you ... thing. So, when Ben informed all of the bloggers that he'd be leaving MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MITE2S, RSI, and more

  

  one of these programs does not mean you will necessarily be admitted to ... was infinitely long?), and the room is packed full. I'll be back in the ... Today, I'm in northern Virginia, assisting with the selection for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  The burning question in my in-box is "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I ... every right to be asking it. I certainly would be. I wish I could get

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  the 100+ pages I’ve scrawled across, so what you’re getting will just be ... be neat and ✨aesthetic✨ the entire way through. I generally believe ... tip will shrink back into the metal support if I push too hard on the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  interesting way of looking biology, and next semester I will be taking the lab ... move towards making something that can be used. I will be addressing ... can be very much limited by how much the lab has. A lot of my friends

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  Memorial. The stand will be run by Russo's, the Watertown-based retailer that ... likely you'll be at the mercy of whatever treats the school gives you ... fruit in the form of a campus produce stand that will open for business

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  . Other news: I have at this point exhausted the bloggability of not being awake. The rest of this post will be about things I did yesterday in ... desk will make you appear far more approachable to students than the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  around the U.S. and it's entrepreneurs, will be premiering next year. I ... of the entrepreneurs that will be featured on the show. And so here I ... believes in them. These stories are a collection of the everyman being an

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  can’t wait to arrive! Remember to be careful around the muggles when ... whether the owners will take them down, or edit the content. Some of them ... or two of these links will be useful. Many of them are to posts on my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  is alright, but being able to find a connection with the guys that will ... something like “haha that was honestly as hot as MIT will be in December, I am ... of being in a fraternity when the time comes around, but to your

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  ="61419" /] This guide is not a permanent fix; it will need to be repeated as ... whiteboard is definitely dirty by the end) intended to be used on new whiteboards that still erase well; this will ruin the existing coating that is

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  wrote was about the MIT Musical Theater Guild, which will be performing 2 ... nomber of students willing to live single exceeds the availability of rooms ... about the Cricket project. Crickets are currently still being developed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  at the same time? Probably not. But there should be. Because how else ... won’t be able to do justice to all of the crazy things that have ... the original metaphor, I might be covered in milk now and out of breath

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  . Explore the stories of those people around you - you will be pleasantly ... the "person that adcoms like." I wasn't being myself. I re-read my Early ... impress, trying hard to be unique, but I hardly recognized the person that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007