Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  time helping to set expectations for the weekend. Because CPW is such a ... well-matched host for the weekend. Tonight, we had a meeting with the MIT ... a host for you, and they'll be in touch soon. There's no one standard

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  catch up. To start off, I’m completing some blog post requests from ... for an extra creative touch, you can also go with the casual scresh, p scresh (for “pretty scretious”), v scresh (for “very scretious”), or

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  . There were 13 display screens set up in Lobby 10, one for each of our ... being offered for MIT students (with the snazzy bonus of summer housing ... Learning Materials for Biology aka. THANK YOU MIT FOR OFFERING A CLASS (even

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  Blue Ribbon BBQ--though she's usually up for walking, Sam's Mom was ... retrospective entries for you when I'm not so busy... like on the weekends. Think ... course, I forgot that this rehearsal was actually for elections and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  I grew up without any public transportation. The closest thing we had ... transportation has that going for it too. The first time I visited Boston, in my ... at Chinatown with my SSP friends. I went up to Harvard Station when my

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  way it fits me best. This is one of the pages I've made for myself ... pilgrimage to Lamont Library in Harvard and camp there for hours. It's far ... what I did instead. I woke up, immediately knew that my body was not

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  provides an environment for students to test new ideas, develop leadership ... up?" how to track deadlines. i've learned that if you ask someone "hey do you want to pick this up?" and neither of you put a date it won

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  happy, but a key component of it includes exercises for you to put certain actions into practice; e.g. writing down one thing you're grateful for each ... social relationships. since i'm not capable of striking up a conversation

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  class that I wake up thinking about and work late into the night for, not ... . Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the ... finding people who share my passion for design - who see it as so much more

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  Says, running up the Green Building stairs for 4 hours, a Python Bee, a ... On Friday morning, I walked into Lobby 7 to head up to the Edgerton Center, where I work most mornings. As usual, I looked up in Lobby 7, more

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  I've decamped from the Boston area northwards to New Hampshire for ... power for some time because it is surrounded by an intricate interweaving of dead trees and ancient power lines. So I figured I'd come up here

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  up from your little desk and seeing a line of caffeinated beverages ... in-dorm storage, while my friends at other schools have to pack up ... much for me. On the bright side, all of my worldly possessions are now

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  Killian Court. (For more on graduation, check out Matt's entry as well the official commencement page.) I'm really excited for this summer though. I ... to liven it up. I'm slowly adding some other random things to the cube

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  . The same staff that is responsible for admitting students is responsible for hosting Campus Preview Weekend. So once decisions are out, the ... admissions staff has their own portion of CPW to oversee. For the last few

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  of print for decades, but for our new website, the College Board agreed to publish it as a free PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Now that it's up, I wanted to direct people to it. The foreword sums it up well

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  Lambda Tea, and the three wonderful human beings responsible for its ... -funding initiative for its students) for another idea they had (“like Uber but for contracting work”), but they didn’t really believe in it enough to follow up on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  year since 2004 while directing the Media Lab's Center for Bits and Atoms ... (almost) anything: it's a semester-long crash course on making for those who ... good idea for a while, but after an hour of congratulating myself on how

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  room and come up with hypotheses for why they worked/were built that way ... , we like to talk about MIT Beef and the Lab for Chocolate Science. I ... research opportunities are available? In preparation for a visit program, I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  , Cara L. and I woke up at 6:30 am on a Saturday to get in line for 10 am ... going for inspirational and life-changing. Here's a gif in case you missed ... them filling up over the weekend, though I didn’t take a closer look. The

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  weather; for me, it was either really cold from head to toe or very warm up ... in which I grew up had a very dry and arid climate. I hardly ever had to watch out for rainstorms in the spring (or any time, for that matter

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012