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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  overcrowding. But I can resonate with the last sentence in that email. ... , you still need to fill out the housing preferences form so that you can ... decision, I hope you will understand it is firmly rooted in our care for you

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  . --- All I can really add to that blog entry is that this year, I'm reliving ... if I got in, hear if I got funding, etc. I still believe, however, that ... to wait for me. I have three months left in my undergraduate career

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  from Ann '14! When I first found out about “Campus Preview Weekend ... ’t quite know what to expect when I arrived in Cambridge on Thursday. In fact, although I was tempted to plan out exactly how I would spend every moment of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  engage in safe sex, and even have a library of books that you can educate ... basic plan is included in student tuition. This is something that I didn't know coming in - I thought that because I waived the extended insurance

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am ... MIT waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end ... our 8% international quota. I'm still very interested in attending MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  grew so small. I walked in circles and circles, sick to my stomach. Later ... with whom to catch up. But in the face of this blast, I seemed to float ... worse was the deep-seated unease, the discomfort I suddenly felt in public

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  too many pictures of the Cambridge as an actual town in this blog. So I ... in Cambridge. Even though it is the middle of winter, you can see the ... Like MIT, Cambridge also gets its share of tourists and visitors. I

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  I can across the Harvard Bridge. There's a speedometer halfway across ... has become such a constant in my life recently, and I fear I'm starting ... and take pictures of what lies in between on my way back home. I am also

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  simple it is. I make it every week or so for my family in the evenings and ... , you've done it! The sorbet is finally finished. You smooth it out in the ... for everybody into bowls and pass it out and sit in your room and write

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  can keep an eye out for this.   The deadline to request an ... out the self-reported grades form. I hope this is helpful. Good ... office will reopen on Tuesday, January 2nd. That said, I thought it was

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  to the ringtone. For a moment, I tuned out the conversation as I ... . Stuff about how rules are worth making so you can bend/break them (both in ... all the stuff we have in the world, and a space where we can all coexist

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  I've had dial-up internet for as long as I can remember. One of the ... campus-wide WI-FI. I always had this sparkling image of me, sitting in ... laptop, it lets me do what I'm doing now (type a blog entry in the floor

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  announcing these prompts last year: People often ask me, "How do I stand out in ... to begin thinking and planning ahead of time, which I respect and value (maybe the most underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  's tempered by the fact that I look so outstandingly bad in all of them. Still ... school on Friday Now, here's what I have to do in the three days I'm home ... succinct, complimentary and distressing e-mail I've gotten in a while from my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  out with McDreamy...there are plenty of Patrick Dempseys in the business ... the same reaction: "Wow, you're from MIT? I'm sure you can handle ... this in mind. Any other questions? Leave a comment or check out the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  figuring out an answer to “how hard can I work, and what am I working towards ... , reputation, weather) turned out not to matter as much as the things i didn ... a senior project in that field. or the random conversations i've had

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  activities MIT is offering this year. I obviously can’t speak much about events other dorms are running, but I can talk at length about East Campus ... ): This isn’t in the REX booklet, but since prep is from 6:30-7 PM, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  internship at the BNSF Railway in Texas, I'll also be missing some of the great ... system. (I introduced this to you sometime in February.) Our effort is ... click -- check out the "Top 10"!) And then in true French style, a wine

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  recitations in Building 4, and the classrooms are definitely not laid out anything like that classroom in the movie." I actually thought the movie 4-145 was closer to the real thing than most of the rooms in the movie (I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  the mixture because I had just finished working with yeast in the lab ... so the cake didn't rise but it took so long to prep that I put it in ... cake and I finished it at like 9:50 and messaged out to my entry to come

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018