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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  event you want to attend or star each event for every day on your phone so ... 't enough for your parents, you can tell them that MIT has a 24/7 student ... East Campus and ask for me, Array. I'm a Medlink here in East Campus, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  So, a few weeks ago, Matt gave me an excellent idea for content ... be the poster child for "people who get headaches listening to ... blogger self was a little strained for topics, seeing as how she was writing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  concentrations. For the minor, students will take four required courses ... accepting and friendly place for gay and lesbian students (this is my outsider ... the best things for the LGBT community is our location in Massachusetts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  differently and this was just what I found to be the best for me. I spent my ... -stage exam for students across India, culminating in a five-day in-person camp for the top 100 competitors! I flew into New Delhi with six other

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  , and one-time workshops, I threw on the wheel for an average of eight ... , aiming for the center. [caption id="attachment_110860" align ... ’re looking for a slightly tapered triangle, thickest at the base. Make sure you

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  psetted a couple times a week, for two of my classes, with someone who ... physics capstone, which pairs you with one lab partner for the entire class ... always felt near-impossible for me to put forth. This goes beyond

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the ... quirks before. For example, many know that MIT’s buildings aren’t named ... circle for only a moment before diverging). 9/10 [caption id

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  simple joy of learning new tricks for running rehearsals while being a ... how many times you have to go for it to pay off; the calculation of how ... for the first time afterwards and getting a little key tag with a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  whole entire school year), so i’m going to set a timer for 25 minutes ... write for the entire time. every so often i go through a phase where i ... range for maybe a minute max. theoretically, if i were typing at full

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  architecture of MIT's campus, lies a pub. it opened in 2004 and was used for at least a decade, but has since been abandoned for wayfaring students to stumble across. in my time, I've heard it being used for parties, scavenger

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  , so I'll save my leave for another blog and instead focus this one on my ... what they want to study or do after graduation, at least for right now ... school began, I very quickly constructed a loft for my room with the help

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  strategies for repositioning the debate. Instruction and practice in written ... requirement for MIT. All students must take 4 CI's during their time at MIT. Two ... hate debating. I think it's stressful and nervewracking. I signed up for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  Warning: this blog features spoilers for the video game Celeste ... will be waiting for you when you’re done. You have been warned. (I will ... experience with imposter syndrome has been a somewhat interesting one. For me

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  places and making it easy for neighbors to block construction projects ... streets safer for pedestrians and traffic while making survival easier for ... empathetic people i know, said well, that sounds bad for the people being

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  my two suitcases. I’m going to be in Europe for the same amount of time ... bags to my place tomorrow. My Molchat Doma shirt had been worn for over ... only my Molchat Doma shirt, which at this point had been worn for over

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  amount of Overleaf formatting can obviate the need for deleting content you ... finals to study for, i spent my time doing absolutely jack all with my ... official last day of classes for everyone, i went to see the movie Jujutsu

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  For many years I have written these blog posts from a cubicle in room ... -1931 MIT Bulletin, which instructs those who wish to petition for entry to the Institute to room 10-100.']for decades,[/annotation] constituted the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  note="Definitely did not sit in front of a computer for hours, feeling ... inbox. But for some reason, I opened this little unsuspecting email ... . My expectations for getting in were [annotation note="per the usual

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  reflection on the past year for a while now. A lot has happened in the past ... forgetting that they have died. For every 30 minutes that I forget, there are ... linear in any way or form and I don’t expect for it to be linear as I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  below for a while but couldn’t because I didn’t have time or didn’t want ... shoulder was silver/purple/orange for a few weeks and so were my chair, hands ... hair was moisturized and remained that way for the whole week I had it in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021