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• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  , while you're thinking of it. And I certainly recommend contacting your EC ... heard back from them, don't worry. Give your EC at least a few days to ... can either give us a call at 617.253.4791 or drop us an email at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  , I got to meet many of you at the Meet The Bloggers Party. I finally ... So I did pretty much everything I said I was going to do at CPW, but ... . Well, I'll show you what I have... The early hours of Thursday found me

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  First of all, can anybody out there think of a new blog tagline? I ... you think of a really good one, send it to me via comment or e ... Wednesday and I've had each of them once by now, so I'll give a quick rundown

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  Welcome on Thursday night at 7:30 pm in room 26-100. Stu Schmill, Dean of ... Saturday morning at 9:00 am in room 10-250. A panel of current MIT parents ... as excited about the start of Campus Preview Weekend (CPW). Yet, after

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  better? This has always been a pet peeve of mine, and, at this point ... is really in the art where the questions sit at the forefront of my ... 've often thought of writing as this kind of deeply lonely task. You sit at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  It's Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to ... lot of work to do. So, when I arrived on campus, I was pleased to see ... ;         A helpful hacker forwarded the text of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  years ago). John Everett, MIT class of 1976 — who learned to row at MIT in ... opportunities to experience life fully, they look at them as a test of their self ... Buick Regal — not the whole car but about 200 parts (which is about 1% of

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  I used to wander there. In the middle of the city. Late at night. By myself. Once, at 11 PM, I called one of my best friends at home in Ohio to ... ! Loose ends from last entry: 1. I'm glad everybody approved of my getting-back-at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  One of the coolest things at MIT is how easily undergrads can join ... by a person at the surface. Most of my work for this UROP has focused ... :30 - Lunch at Chipotle Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of food on campus

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  trying my hand at photography this summer, and of course, Photoshop is the ... ’t feel rested at all, and I’m not ready to be trapped in the [annotation ... a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  Women Rock, but let's broaden the pool of rockstars a bit. The Math Prize ... in the United States. Over 200 of the top young women mathematicians in ... here, at MIT, on September 17th 2011! Our office worked hard in order to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  of writing this blog post I got distracted at least seven times, one of ... next few days I used my laptop for my morning alarm instead of my phone ... for its front desk, it was only one of the packages I had ordered, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  prohibited. Consideration should be given to the rights of roommates at all ... words and pics) Finding heritage at MIT (If you don't read any of the ... around to help you with your stuff. A quarter of last year's freshmen at my

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to ... their daily lives (e.g. does a computer scientist glare at lines of code ... day sitting at a desk. So what does a day in the life of a physicist

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  Hidden from most of the hustle and bustle of classes and rushing to the next thing in life via the infinite corridor is the basement of the ... classes to have a cup of coffee, get going on my to do list, take a nap, or

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  one of the smaller majors at MIT, and it is an absolutely awesome field. MIT’s planning department is one of the best in the nation and encompasses a variety of different specializations, ranging from urban design to

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  of my hall's freshmen, when one of them noticed something odd in the ... friend had noticed was that several of the buildings had tiny stickers on ... a while since the Hack Gallery was updated, and only a couple of these

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  -3 weeks at a time, and the library has so many copies of the more popular ... ;1/3 of my music listening. It’s mostly to discover new songs/artists, so I only actually recognized one out of my top five artists this year

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  dinner at 10 am with two of my close friends, before sleeping for five ... long, but we still play for seven hours at once a lot of the time. The ... do get to see MIT, at 7 am, in its glory of quiet energy, just waiting

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... . Editor's notes were added in the spring of senior year. For reference, here is my past avatar, a more accurate depiction of me when I wrote this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018