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• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  week!!! We are thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2022! GET HYPE ... requests to help with events. We got our prefrosh hosting assignments, and ... matches visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  how to grow a vibrant kresge just add sod

  

  torment season. From August to March, the grass in front of Kresge is hit with an onslaught of violent offenses ranging from tents to snow, turning it to mud. Recovery begins in April, when it is no longer snowing, and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  A lot of the day-to-day communication at MIT happens, not through face-to-face conversation, but via email. I get email from my dorm, from ... personal as face-to-face conversation or talking on the phone, but it's handy

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  Among all the classes that MIT offers, it’s almost impossible to narrow them down to just 4 at the beginning of each semester (or 5 for the ... . But actually, to our surprise, having a “plan” and a “major” and a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  uncertain when you hold them too close. Still, I add to the list. Markers of ... and uncontrollable, I return to the list. I remind myself of what I know to be true. Some truths are easy. For example, the addition of peanut

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  accepted to MIT, I still clearly remember the day I received my decision. The ... room with my parents standing on either side of me, ready to either congratulate or console. As I prepared to click the button, I was neither

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something ... didn't want that to happen.  The question of whether I wanted to do math began to nudge me more often. I wondered if I was doing it purely out of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  having breakfast. As usual, I missed the Boston Daytime shuttle to campus. Like any other morning, it looked like I was walking to campus. But as I stepped out onto the front steps, I felt compelled to pull out my phone and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Changes To Your MyMIT Account The no-online-notification thing may change in the future, but unfortunately not this year.

  

  A quick response to some of the questions we've been receiving: you won't notice any change to your MyMIT account until we're confident that everyone has had a chance to receive his/her decision via mail (or telephone

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  If you are an international student who is coming to MIT this fall, congratulations! You have a lot to be proud about. From experience, I can say that right now, you have a lot to be worried about too. Here is a non

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  sleep. Here's a list of the stuff I have to get done, and the amount of ... research statements. To be done [annotation note="absolute deadline is Dec. 1 but one of my recommenders wants to see my essays to help write his

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  From EC to Trinity Hall Last year First East was graced with a ... enthusiastic 6-1 major with a propensity to semi-conductor electronics, Rob was always there to clear up our many, many, misconceptions of all things

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  . For the past couple of years, I've used an app called Sleep Cycle to ... some privacy issues, but I simply choose not to think about it too hard ... sleep deprivation and procrastination. I stayed up late to do my work, got

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer Decisions to be Released Today

  

  applicants will be emailed their decisions at 5 pm. Eastern Time to the email ... , we had to decline admission to a great many outstanding students. We ... prepared to be part of an dynamic MIT community next fall.  

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • May 7, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Get to know Tim the Beaver! Tim shows off some moves at an MIT men's ice hockey game

  

  While browsing the internet, I stumbled across this video. While spectators waited patiently for the Zamboni to finish during a men's ice hockey ... siezed the moment. To the 2016ers, here's what you can expect when you

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  giving you a large, apologetic explanation which would do nothing to redeem myself to you applicants and prefroshers and even preapplicants out there, I'm going to go right in and cover everything interesting I've seen

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  don't know what to say. Today, President Susan Hockfield sent this message out to the MIT community: From: Susan Hockfield Subject: Tragedy at Virginia Tech Date: April 17, 2007 To: [email protected] Reply-To: sh

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  st... First: thank you. It's been a real pleasure getting to know you. We've spent the last year thinking about you, getting to know you, talking to you, your parents, and more. After a ridiculously competitive

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  won season passes to Astroworld from a failing radio station back in my ... my season pass the first day I had it; I just never asked to go back ... WMBR, the MIT radio station, invited a few of us to go join him on the

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an ... exciting, because MIT students take "awesome" and "we can" to a whole new ... , since she's always loved musical theater, began to throw around the idea

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011