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• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  to head down to the Hatch Shell and pick up tickets for the concert ... % off coupon in the Collegiate Coupon Book, which you can pick up for free ... Boston sky lights up for 23 minutes to a bizarre soundtrack which included

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  could be up for debate. E Entry: Protobowl and Produce and SNL and ... thrive in a cook-for-yourself community. H offered up some kitchens and ... CPW is officially over! The CPW weather machine ended up pulling

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  *in the solid phase This is a recipe for The Best Tasting BLT ... you appreciate it. True for food, true for MIT. Because as good as it was to be home in December for winter break (back home, “winter” is 70

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  for my flights, housing, and general life in Tokyo, as well as lined up ... much greater stamina for holding it than yours truly, so you'd think I'd have picked up a little more endurance. Instead of that, I've picked up a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  has. The process you follow is to sign up for a Moira ... ://wserv.mit.edu:444/fcgi-bin/lc for this, and don't sign up for a Mailman list -- that ... for a final this weekend, and thankfully the sun came out again after a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  change gonna' come." For the greater part of my blog's existence, many of ... awesome for creating my new banner. Not to mention the fact that you are a perfect fit for MIT and I can't wait to see you as a freshman this fall

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  into the van as they showed up. Eventually the van was full. A girl came up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached ... around a few blocks of New York City for twenty minutes and then arrived at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  particular order. While my last summer was spent cooped up in a cubicle for 40 ... grades where life is at its best. Where one stays up until 4am, not out of necessity but out of enjoyment, and wakes up when it can no longer be

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  ride my bike for nearly an hour every day to speed up the part of my ... yearlong membership for $45! it's pretty worth it if you don't have your own ... annual bike auction where you can get decent bikes for prices comparable or

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  state that I have been reduced to[/caption] For people who aren't caught up with Gen Zalpha slang, or people who are reading this in the far ... women for some reason and said that it was only for students. [-200 aura

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  -highlighters-bullet-journaling-timelapse-note-taking days (or maybe the better word is recovered?), my appreciation for the ... for Mechanical Engineers This class has 1 hour lectures every Monday and Wednesday, and meets for a two hour lab every week. While the lab

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  be entered in a lottery for a $1000 dollar scholarship. For kids up to ... everyday, I at least kept it up for four months. And now I have all these ... last year of eligibility for a ~special program~ my local library ran

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick EA Update A few words about the storm, application tracking, MyMIT, and more.

  

  processed all materials. It may take us up to two more weeks for your materials to show up on the tracking system (even for electronic documents). I ... some brief updates. Sandy: If you have been affected by the storm, for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  I don't much care for this nickname, lol...). I have three suitemates ... on the train and hope that I wake up to my 7:20 alarm. 7:30 AM ... -profile vaccines like Gardasil (for HPV) and Zostavax (for shingles) has been both

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  a hack! For those of you just tuning in, a "hack" at MIT is clever ... interesting physical and logistical challenges for their perpetrators. As you ... , no one really knows for sure who executed the hack, but I figure some

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  I've been promising an entry specifically for homeschooled applicants and other interested parties for a long time now; this is an early ... homeschooled applicants. Homeschooled applicants still make up less than 1% of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  CPW story can be summed up in three pictures. Friendship: From R to L ... Schmill, Kim Vandiver (Dean for Undergrad Research), and me ???: <class="photo"> Um… Speaking of pictures, I apologize in advance for the poor quality

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  hours/week… aiya I give up.” And no less than five seconds later, I ... major requirements you have and have not completed; handy for making sure ... upperclassman right now. just let me live my wee underclassman days for one last

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  attempt to pick these fragments out of the haze for you—because each of them ... [/annotation] and because they can help offer an unfiltered view of what I’ve been doing for ... blogging, i:   went to see [annotation note= "pop band famous for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  for Early Action, and up to January test scores for Regular Action. Q ... This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... taking my tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014