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• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  long showers. “Oh, I gotta remember to audition for a capella!” “I could ... green next time I visit East Campus. It’d be so cool to live there, too ... . Prior to the visit, I was terrified of taking Biology at MIT. After CPW

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  . It's good to see all of you :) So what's up. It's senior year. This is ... Midway this year - MIT students can dance too!) - that this is going to be ... my LAST fall first day of lecture - this is my LAST time pretending to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  to turn the attention specifically to you, the wide-eyed and apparently confused applicants. I'm not going to tell you how to get into MIT. That ... to those with a “stronger” profile, which would make the very possible

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  This is going to be my third CPW, and all I can tell you that you ... to be cold and rainy during the first two days of CPW :( ) Yes, you have the huge, official guide to CPW events, but don't you want some

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  http://my.mit.edu. To announce this, Dean of Admissions Stu Schmill has ... all students, and is to be completed by you, the applicant.  The Report serves two purposes: to provide your updated grades since you have applied

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  the second! I feel like I’m finally starting to get math." But then, the ... for ten hours it’s 7 a.m. jesus christ, go to sleep," but I can’t cause ... . Usually, I am fine with losing a night's sleep as long as I don’t have to do

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  to [annotation note="what sounds like an incredibly draining week of ... and slander your peers) in hopes of securing a bid (an invitation to ... Ξp is what it sounds like: a week dedicated to working on the house.  t

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  at Microsoft and got to work with Minecraft. I learned some cool things ... micro-internship applications opened up in September 2021, so I decided to apply to several places, including Microsoft. To be honest, I was pretty

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  until I got to MIT my freshman year. I got a pair for $25 with kneepads, elbowpads, and wristguards at Goodwill. I had always wanted to learn, but living near hills made it too intimidating to learn. The area around MIT

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  people who helped write, and they've all been talking to me and asking me to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while now, and it's traditional for people in my living group, floorpi, to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  First, just to allay the inevitable questions in the comments: we ... to post something I've had in the backlog for awhile.  Last year, I was involved with a class devoted to (re)designing the first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  of the game is to forget that it exists. It's one of the most popular ... whom is about as obsessed with xkcd as I am, so he showed it to me on his ... , basically, like The Game. You don't want to think about it...but you do. I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 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
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  it's also cool because there's so much more time to do the kinds of things that you don't need to sign up for. I went into this IAP with no plans except to have as much fun as possible. Having an empty calendar

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  taking rocks and training them to add and remember numbers. Wow! Rocks usually do not (and should not) know how to add or remember numbers, but we ... 's even cooler than that? Training rocks… that STICK TOGETHER… to do those

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  YouTube to practice dancing seemed like my best bet. as said in my ... choreography videos for K-Pop songs were available on YouTube for me to learn, so ... -taught dancers I've met throughout my life, seems to be a pretty common experience

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  are on campus to see a lecture upstairs by Nobel Prize winner Ted Hänsch ... can't join in, because I really need to be reading applications. As I ... chance to see it) The MIT International Science & Engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  Welcome to my seventh and final(!) tourist-y post. Previously, I have ... two towns are great if you want to relax, and Somerville especially can ... arranged by subway stop, from nearest to farthest (with respect to MIT's main

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  cook every other week. I enjoy competing in the unofficial game of try-to ... wonderfully convenient, allowing me to cook often enough to enjoy it and not so ... , since you have to cook for around 20-30 people, and not all recipes are

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  -on Introduction to DNA! to seventh through ninth graders at Spark, a day ... and community members. ESP seems to contain most of my Random Hall ... Math, and classes you might not expect, such as How to Plan and Execute

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013