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• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  ) In conclusion, thanks to all of the prefrosh who I met for: -making me ... read this blog by spreading the word that UROP stands for Undergraduate ... experience in all the labs on campus. It's one of the many things that make MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  graduated high school a year early, and had a few friends at MIT who came in ... a younger age is not the right course for most students, for a select ... 'll for the most part treat them as any other application, but we will ask a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  MIT, this is a problem I wrestled for a while.  And I've learned that it ... winter break for a few days of ice climbing.  Temperatures dropped to ... .  Look, there's a reason I'm writing for MIT Admissions and not Vogue

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  , almost like my innate daftness is an excuse for not being able to learn. In ... to learn for the test. For an AP. For a final. The singular goal was to pass. And this was good enough for high school. This was enough to get

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  actually a vampire and doesn't show up on film, so I had to stand in for her ... . Anyway, beyond Ruth's most brilliant clue (saved for posterity in Mitra ... restaurant for Cuban food if you happen to be in New York; it's a little pricey

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  dirt driveway in our costumes, usually something my mother sewed for us ... kid, not as a teenager, not even ironically in college.When I tell people that, they look at me shocked, jaw to the floor like a scream mask.In

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled ... . How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then ... getting applicants to share information and insights about their lives in

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  over the summer that I lived in Evan T. 19's room, where he installed chalkboards on one of his walls. (I talk about this more in the whiteboard post.) If we were in the same room, I would tell you that I could teach you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  decision-conscious, whether that be congratulating those who got in or ... time and sometimes there are not enough words in the world to comfort rejection or the long waiting period in between. But do know that you are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  In the past few months, communication with each other has been sparse ... occasion, I’ve used Zoom or FaceTime to get a sense of realness in my ... . Here in Cambridge, where masks are now required outside, casual

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  I took part in HackMIT last year, and it was a great deal of fun! I ... APIs, i.e. VR headsets, fitness bands, IoT devices, APIs for delivery ... : some cool examples are headphone-assisted navigation for the blind, blood

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  class that I wake up thinking about and work late into the night for, not ... finding people who share my passion for design - who see it as so much more ... about in my spare time appear in class. It's seeing my favorite

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  experienced in my always interesting (if occasionally miserable) time trudging ... background: MIT apparently leads the pack of Ivy+ institutions in Facebook page ... they're whining about is that in 2006, the writer of Doonesbury put up a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  's nerd-speak for inconsistencies in high temperature superconductors. If ... "Blowing up the alamo into pieces then hiding out in the mountains", I admire ... this summer and I'm currently looking for an apartment somewhere near the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE LAZY: You, email me, picture of you ... of a big deal- last I checked, 50% of men are in frats, and a little less than 25% of women are in sororities (April 26 through May 2, in case

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  This afternoon, as I was walking past the Center for Ultracold Atoms ... in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would ... someone in our wide, mysterious world was once compelled to design a pair of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  to walk rush from my 6.336 lecture in 10-250 to the 6.131 lecture in 34 ... mentioned it before in her blog). Last spring I was the Membership Vice President, or more colloquially, the Mommy. As Mommy, I was in charge of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  reading one of the eight stories in her new book, Unaccustomed Earth, for ... ) spent this evening at MIT. Though she was born in London and raised in Rhode Island, Lahiri spent some of her childhood in Boston and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  covered that. So let's get to the meat of the matter (or for you vegans out ... of clubs in school to activities that help to relieve human suffering ... many students showing so much compassion for their fellow man. The

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading ... comfortable enough to actually fall asleep. A fifteen-minute nap in Hayden can ... Discovered About Myself Freshman Year... 1. There is no substitute for sleep

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005