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• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  underrepresented students at MIT, I think of one of our students who is an aspiring ... works at MIT in the Office of Engineering Outreach Programs trying to ... officers at many colleges and universities will travel across the country to

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  residents of Floor Pi. At one point, we were large enough that a team called ... screen, so you can look at the list of puzzles and view how far people are ... . Reading the text in the beginning of the puzzle hints at putting together

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  or radio necessary :)  I've been spending a lot of time at the DZ and ... jumping out of planes.  We jump at Skydive Pepperell, shoot me an email if ... more difficult. In the summer between sophomore and junior year at MIT I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  almost from scratch. After collapsing, exhausted, at the end of the long ... , man. You turned out alright. At the culmination of this penultimate ... to fifteen hours to finish. When we emerge from our cyclic periods of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  in the test tank at Sea Grant, the lab that Arcturus does most of their ... of CryoFAC has nothing to do with the ice cream at all: every year ... exciting things I’d done all month at home but were just one of countless

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  parts of the job I loved plus more: I get to help students at office hours ... 'm doing research, the main part of my actual degree. To be honest, so far, I ... '."]Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science[/annotation]offers a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  , maybe because of it I’ll one day be gr8 at optimizing stuff, but for now ... the computer science minor. 8. Having regrets. At the end of the day ... activities. Well, of course I felt at the time that those student jobs were

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  best (and I think succeeded at) renormalizing my expectations of grades ... social, and partly a function of being a nerd at a nerd school surrounded ... other MIT students."]this degree[/annotation]. I think some of it comes

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  Today in Boston it was 41 degrees Fahrenheit and rainy. Random Hall ... her family, and several smaller Thanksgivings branching off of it (because one wasn’t enough). I wasn’t there. I was sitting at a picnic table

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  learned to use the entirety of their feet to varying degrees of ... . a lot of people at mit walk with their hands in their pockets, either ... , since most buildings at mit and in the rest of the world have fairly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  stands at an easel and holds a palette of oil paints and wears a beret. In ... something I would put at the top of the list of things I am most passionate ... could have planned this part out a little better. At the beginning of last

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  one side of downtown opens up to a 180 degree panorama over the ice ... after their success at the Battle of Vimy, and the 22e was established as ... Canada! My friend Yida, showing off the giant ramp of the snowboarding

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  flag on the Moon. At the same time, and without the slightest sense of ... policies announced Friday tear at the very fabric of our society. I ... community and the nation at large, there are people of goodwill who see the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  glimpse of what a writing assignment at MIT can look like. To preface that ... amount of time on it. At the very most, you can help me (totally voluntary ... the art of persuasion. Now the art of persuasion, whether moral or not

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  each station memorized (I don’t), there is a helpful map at the top of ... Ashmont or Braintree (the two branches at the bottom of the rightmost map ... you’re past the gates go up the stairs on your left.   At the top of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  talk to me, none of that would have happened. I never was good at ... I'm halfway to my bachelor's degree which is exciting but also nerve ... about it? This is an image from one of my favorite Twitter accounts

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  process of admissions. When I invited Stephan'13 to come volunteer at the EA ... weekend. CPW is an intense compression of an entire undergrad experience at ... together in a concentrated burst of effort to do everything that lies at the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  the majority of the people in her area didn’t have college degrees and ... and saw the statue of John Harvard and had ice cream at Harvard Square ... picture of her at Stanford, the upperclassmen she hung out with told her to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  activities I have tried here at MIT, teaching has stood out because of how it ... one of many outreach programs at MIT.[/annotation] [total time ... Thinking and Data Science). At the start of freshman year, I took an Advanced

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  you to everyone! I got this!” Person looks around at all of us, and ... minutes of poking my pencil at a paper, I hurried out of the exam hall and ... teach, and I expect that it will be added to the extensive list of courses

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013