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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 1 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Hi everyone! CPW is in full swing. I haven't been this tired in a ... registration desk until a little after 8PM, went to the Prefrosh Welcome Event in ... sitting on the same registration chair for 14+ hours today. Woot! Mitra has

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  Tuesday morning and learn the material for the week, then go to lab hours in ... preregister for a bunch of them and hope you get into one), so I wound up in ... really liked to sing, but I never had time for it in high school, so I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  admissions process. We have received approximately 15,600 applications for ... , it is too late for any supplemental materials to be considered by the ... anything you send in as a supplement. I think it is important to remember

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  . Diaz has been doing many interviews since he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but an appearance on Colbert is always... interesting. For those ... modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Evens & Ends Notes on CPW, Veronica Mars, and more.

  

  an art exhibit at MIT (in the New York Times!). And for now, off to ... few odds & ends... CPW update: for everyone who has registered, we are in the process of matching you to an MIT student host. If you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Dilemma Free (food) for all.

  

  -HAMENTASHEN DEBATE Today, 8:00 p.m. in Room 10-250 Don't miss this exciting debate ... arguments in favor of their respective type of food. Hear the arguments of ... after the debate for a reception with hundreds of latkes and hamentashen

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  Around 7:15 this evening, it started snowing in Cambridge.   ... many random pictures as we could. These people, in true MIT fashion ... inside a picture... The Alchemist! We saw tons of bunnies in Killian

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  Here’s a little tribute to lobby 7. Since my start at MIT in January ... coffee cup in hand, along with a horde of students and tourists, and I ... – MIT’s founder – chiseled high up in the building’s façade.  

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  , just didn't shower? Me too. But seriously, congratulations! In my 9 ... one experiment we ran in class involved everyone writing down their ... memories". In this case, specifically recalling the day you found out you got

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  I've spent the past week or so running about in flip-flops, taking ... failed to absorb in wintry days past. In celebration of this meteorological ... your way in four days and an orgo test coming my way in a week, it'd be

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!

  

  has managed to teach me in the past year. I ran for UA Vice President ... 2005 in Review Being in college manages to teach you a lot of life lessons. Some you would prefer not to learn, but in the long run, I'm sure I

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  all of my reading for my supercool HASS class (American Classics). In ... wikipedia page I linked to. Also, a HASS is MIT lingo for a class in the ... . Plus, there's a lot of work. Take last week, for example. I was up until

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  Laboratory for Chocoloate Science. According to their Wiki, LCS can be described:   Founded in 2003, the MIT Laboratory for Chocolate Science ... in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laboratory for Chocolate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  courtyard for rush, and this year is no different. in fact, i signed up to be ... after a year of not seeing people in-person much i lost all capability for ... with me. being alone on a bus for six hours isn't the best thing in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  nothing is impossible (and in some ways, it did that for me), for the most ... .  In the summer, I went back to Chicago, where I had been for the summer ... main goal for this summer was to become slightly more fluent in my mentor

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  stockpile cases of Coca-Cola in 1985 for fear that her only son would be ... weekends for some crazy consulting company, you're probably going to end up having a little bit of down time in your typical day. Especially if years

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  , interpreted for patients, and participated in community health outreaches and ... refused to go away. I remembered that in middle school, copayments for each ... , cola, flow from faucet. Day after, feel bad come back for drip-drop in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  quality that many strive for in their sketches. My high school art teacher ... one painting, it can still work in another. I've been drawing for most ... subjective as art in definite terms. Even though I've been art-ing for a while

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  apply to in the fall, mostly because I had no frame of reference for which ... !"]scientist[/annotation] for the rest of my life. I don't know which schools to apply to in the ... work in a real Big Pharma biology lab for the summer"]9 to 5[/annotation

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one ... with some of the coolest people in the world. And it did happen for a ... for gazing at the view and watching Adventure Time in Korean. We did

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014