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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  100 atm? Then you ought to meet us in the lobby of Building 66 at 2:00, 2:30, 3:00 or 3:30 for a fun-filled tour of the Tester Lab, down in ... of the most pure, maternal soprano voices I've ever heard. She's a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  advisor at the beginning of the semester and have them approve your course ... a group of people living in the same place would all have the same ... before the school year starts, they publish a whole long list of advising

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  of tea through the whole day. it was a ridiculous amount of tea. go ... projects i had due end-of-semester. but of the four (yes, four, it ... at least had to put some amount of effort into the project. when i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  of the instructors. The first two lectures or so were focused on using ... in the class). Differentiating between the lingo of add, commit, push, clone, et cetera was confusing at first, but by the end of the first week

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  her a glass of water and some paper towels. On the way back to my room ... the boyfriend of patient 3.  He told me that she wasn't feeling well ... the care of her boyfriend, and went down the hall to check on the others

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  one night a week in our office on the 4th floor of the student center ... that there’s stuff to go on the front page. It falls on the shoulders of ... -weekly (twice weekly) dose of news from reading our paper. Over the past month or

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Go White Sox! I'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had…

  lot of special memories at both the Old Comiskey Park and the newer U ... plays, and, of course, the grand slam and Podsednik's walk-off homerun in ... weather. In fact, the guy sitting in front of us said, "isn't this a

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  struggling under the sudden influx of CPW-related e-mails, and my willpower to ... already knew, but for many of you, that won't be the case. It's not a bad ... list of things to pack. Notice that one of the items listed is a camera

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  are very few of these arrangements. MIT participates in the Exchange ... specific area of research you find interesting, you may try contacting the ... opportunities. For a list of current research areas, please visit the research
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  their numbers than anything else, that the courses of study span between 1 ... closest of friends and familiar faces you still haven't learned the names of ... with friends in Maseeh/McCormick/dorms with meal plans The kind of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  the loss of sleep one single bit. To explain: Milan, MIT's annual ... arrival of more experienced dancers, the energy rapidly picked up, and the next few hours were spent lost in the whirlwind of glorious endorphins

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  the things we find beautiful—our very perception of beauty, actually ... one of my favorite things I didn’t realize were math: paper art. The ... should also click the links. If you want to see more of YQ’s paper art, you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I haven’t completed all the recommended coursework?

  At the very least, we recommend you have one full year of both calculus (or higher level of math, whichever meets your ability level) and ... calculus and physics at the college level. Depending on your major, you may
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  , anyway. Sure, I’ve seen demonstrations of the photoelectric effect and the ... metal cylinder with a cluster of tubes running out of it. Nothing like the ... anniversary of modern quantum mechanics – and the stars have aligned in every

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  international students.   Hi everyone, The Office of Admissions is ... ’s see if I can answer some of the most common questions we get every year ... of the Regular Action period. In previous years, anywhere from 150

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2018 are now ... to decisions.mit.edu. 18,357 students applied to the MIT Class of ... common the highest caliber of character, conscientiousness, and, of course

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  top priorities of the moment keep getting supplanted as more and more pressing Ideas Of The Now pop into my head. Today, the pecking order ascended ... with at least four pressing tasks, and the burning question of what to do

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  recitation and office hours. This is a compiled list of the resources that I ... will swear that recitations are the worst possible waste of your time while others swear by them. I've been at both sides of the spectrum and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  time to chat in the Office of Minority education, where I was able to get ... , I will highlight some of my favorite events of the weekend! The Stata ... exciting. I toured the actual laboratory, how cool is that? I even got all of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  The Class of 2015 list of 101 things to do before you graduate has ... --participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or ... Apparel, and Ministry of Supply. The entire event was a logistics challenge, but

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011