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• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  athletics at MIT in order to share with attendees what I believe to be the best-kept secret about being part of the MIT community. For this reason ... best thing about being affiliated with MIT, hands down, no questions, is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  being so fast), but I've been up to a lot. More on that later, don't you ... to first check it out. MIT seems to be littered with free a cappella performances (people litter a lot in cities; MIT also seems to be littered with

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  -rotor helicopter that can be used for search-and-rescue missions, and maybe someday ... 't help but be reminded, like when Obama came to MIT a few Fridays ago. It ... to be up there, on THAT VERY STAGE, doing standup with a hand puppet

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  open their hearts the way Ben does, the world would be a much better ... the Blogs Bad haiku will be Ben's legacy (wait 'til the fall...). "Bad ... misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous for being a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  area where interviews aren't available. Would I be able to do the ... high school math are recommended for applying to MIT. I'm going to be a ... , I will not be able to take Calculus or another Math class. At our

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  friend. :-D] I know it must be kind of confusing to reconcile the fact that ... being busy. It's probably reasonable to limit yourself to one ... you'll be seduced by things like the First Year Summer Mailing over the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  prospective students ought to be asking about schools they're considering ... what your ideal program would be like. Unlike questions about campus ... virtue at MIT. In fact, I don't think I'd be exaggerating if I said hard

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  in the corners of otherwise miserable semesters, there can be spots of ... which surrounds them cannot be tamed into a coherent narrative ... intending to be a double major in [annotation note="writing!"]Course 21W

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  soon to be Ph.D advisor, and the third was with Marah Gubar-- an amazing ... slightly adjacent. But to be fair to my younger self, I come from a town of ... ’ and got lost resulted in what will forever be known in my family as the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  through some miracle, airfare happened to be cheap, and we flew there ... -hall" instead of "dining". Gotta say, it's fun to be an MIT student pretending to be a Havard student, which is how I learned all of this. I imagine

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  ’re just things that happen to be more on the mind lately ... sections — success, meaning, and time — and each can be read as an ... answers. Maybe this post can be reassuring if you feel like you need it all

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  essay has to be something to do with engineering or could I send in a ... be anything, not just something directly related to science/engineering. If you are sending in portfolio work to be reviewed, please note that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  admissions decisions. are certain topics off-limits for being too controversial ... without going too far?" You should be appropriate in your application ... 've done in the last year. "As this year's applicant pool is shaping up to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  email to our future selves, which would be automatically delivered to our ... about all these classes, but that’ll be for a future post ... lighting is what the color of the sunset should be if we could banish

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  guessed was that the first CPW I’d spend as an actual student would be ... ’t participate in it, but it’ll always be there if you want your social life to be ... : participants would be given 30 seconds to list off as many women as they could

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  undergraduate research, also what this happens to be about."]UROP[/annotation] at ... of street cred I have, I fear it must be discussed. Late last semester ... a student didn't respond to an authority/higher-up we would be ruined

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  tasked with coming up with six “opportunity spaces,” which we would be ... supposed to be working on. Is an “opportunity” broad (ex: Fires) or specific ... show how important being on the same page would be for our team. Not

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  After three and a half years of being at this school, I've taken ... part of it is in how we talk -- being excited when you talk, speaking ... roads that can be made again and again. (I'm sorry if it hurt your brain

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  ,” [annotation note="see also: “so false.” can be used as a filler/form of ... time management decisions on being a frosh that doesn’t need to worry ... could not tell you."](of many)[/annotation] midterm week(s), we’d be be

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  lately. for a lot of reasons. one is that, well, being[annotation note ... only person representing their ethnicity (despite there being lots of ... acquaintance. (Unrelatedly: god, I miss doing that.) She also happened to be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021