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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  or so on the weekends) because I needed to drive. It's a calming ... I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... /con Should I go to MIT? list was "I can't take my car with me." Freshman year

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Giving Back (Guest Entry) Guest Entry by Kenny '13

  

  across the country come just to get their pediatric care. All we need from ... to be grateful for. That's something that this semester has really taught me: all that I have to be grateful for. I've got a great set of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  extremely small sample size. Q. I don't need good extracurriculars to apply ... Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the ... things like this, but my boyfriend is trying to make me into a better

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  Contrary to popular belief, I actually do stuff outside of farting around and doodling. Stuff like going to class and paying attention to important stuff. Filing that one away in my list of Things To Refer To When

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tell Me Baby ..what's your story?

  

  loves me and is really excited that I got in and is also really excited to ... much more substantial entry coming soon - but speaking of rockstars, last week I went to two very incredible shows by two of my favorite bands (not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  about going to MIT was that I wouldn't have the time to do as much ... at MIT a week early to participate in FUP, or the MIT Freshman Urban ... various community service events, while also allowing us to do all these

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  . It was so much fun. We stuffed a bag full of apples and then went to ... little too much to drink. We went to various pubs afterwards and I think ... past few years. So it's been a little over a month since we got to

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule ... you're sleeping, you're also doing something wrong. There is so much going on, and I don't remember getting much sleep whether it was checking

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  acclimated to what they need to do and how they can go about doing it, but the ... You know, it’s not every day that a person chooses to move to a ... ’s worth of orientation events that you really should go to. Why? To enhance

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  on my wing of Next House, I would need to just make that happen. And ... REX events. I'm going to need to offer advice to incoming first years ... we (the class of '24s) were supposed to just get it. Like we were

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  to work with a friend... my classes are much harder — but also much ... lived in a dorm, participated in lots of student activites, and went to ... classes virtually and doing pretty much nothing else. it's weird. here

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have a class rank or GPA?

  holistic admissions process, we're much more interested in how an applicant ... school doesn't calculate GPA, please don't convert your grades to a U
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

    One of my favorite questions to ask, when talking to ... would I see, where would i go, etc. I figured that people would want to ... decided to chronicle my weekend! This will be the first of several "a day in

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

  All Hallow’s Eve You're never too old to trick-or-treat...

  

  , and I still have some other work to finish before sleeping. For the ... handed out treats to anyone who stopped by their rooms/apartments between 9 ... . And my friends and I took this opportunity to galavant around our dorm

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of ... , shaking, and sifting, not thinking much at all except keeping track of how ... techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It’s emotions

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  ’t want to run in the hall because who does that, but then also you feel ... somewhat similar to junior year of high school, in that I feel I’ve somewhat ... , I’m being given a lot more path-critical items to do, and as I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  email to Ben Jones: ---------- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:03:56 -0400 ... though, to meet me, that is. You know where I live. Here a special shoutout to my homegirl Jessica. She was my prefrosh hostee for an overnight

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  the town next to mine. I don't remember much from the interview except ... action folks), I've been thinking back a bit to my college interviews. My MIT interview was with an elderly alum, known to me as Mr. Neighbours

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  scheduled to be covered in the discussion. The list went something like this ... Radicals to Alkenes Yes, you read that right. Ozonolysis. And I didn't even really choose to learn about it. It just sort of happened. In case you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  Hey guys! Remember me? I used to blog and stuff, until I became so ... I do have a few quick things to talk about. So, our good friend Ben ... so strongly of this that I had to buy it for him. (Seriously, Five

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007