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• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  . At least a few hours. Try to visit most of the dorms! Even if there ... of the river. Call your parents at some point over the weekend ... students are a better indication of what it’ll be like at MIT, so get to know

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  .  Look at the boots! And here is a picture of my roommate Maggie making ... spread additional awareness of what MIT offers to help people on this day ... to any of my fellow MIT students.  My first week at MIT, my grandfather

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  , really. But at the same time, it goes straight to the heart of what it ... I grew up in a house composed almost entirely of girls. Genetic odds to the contrary, I'm the only guy out of four children. That's right: I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  professors and departments at Wits University and the University of Cape Town I found a position at the Center of Biomedical TB Research at Wits ... caught a glimpse of it in my tour guide at Constitution Hill, a man who

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  Science - neither of which are accepted for credit at MIT. And I'm fairly ... don't have AP classes or exams offered at your schools, but have taken ... [Editor's note in 2017: The Office of Undergraduate Advising and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  this meager offering. I'd like to write a happy post. Some light fare ... adventures along the river or at dances— they're real. I could write that post ... dances. Recently, I've had dearth of dances: This semester's place permits

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  oatmeal ever at Small World Coffee, a sweet independent cafe that offers a ... my friend, Maria '08, to visit one of my best friends from high school ... of numbers, I found that they are very, very different. We arrived on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  degrees, in every career field, with the obvious exception of the five or ... During a pset party last night, one of my hallmates called her own ... forward a little bit at a time in one tiny, specific system. But she loves

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  pierced, what types of piercings I wanted, and how much it would cost. At ... is a sort of rite of passage in Boston to get a piercing messed up at ... Lucky's twice last August, once to look at their selection of jewelry and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  just a few of the press articles at http://news.google.com ... the future of coal research at MIT, because Professor McRae is kind of a ... DID YOU KNOW? The city of Portland, Oregon was named for Portland

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  1 reply date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... for a class of about 1,130 students this year. Based on our estimates of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why It Pays…

  

  meant downing gallons of coffee, but that math- or science-related major might just be worth it -- in terms of job outlook and high starting pay, that is." "According to NACE's Job Outlook 2005 survey, eight of the top

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  diverge at 30 degree angles) and we're working our way to sketching more ... of machine and computer tool use so all the Mechanical Engineering students will be equipped to handle upper level classes. But instead of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  degrees clockwise to face the Harvard bridge, before Kate’s lack of three ... degrees counterclockwise to face Boston. And repeat. After a while of this ... on a tangent about my sailing PE class at some point. (If you were

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  Thursday night at 7:30 pm. Stu Schmill, Dean of Admissions, Chancellor Eric ... the programs he's been a part of while at MIT. Insight for Parents by Parents is Saturday morning at 9:00 am. A panel of current MIT parents will

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  fantastic folks at the Davidson Institute and the new Davidson Academy. The Davidson Institute offers many programs of interest to the kinds of students ... database of resources for gifted students. The Institute offers many programs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action this year I'm so impressed with our applicants

  

  accomplished, and diverse community of students at MIT. Our Early Action admits ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... previous years, this was an extremely selective Early Action cycle. Of those

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  the Cold War or the ending of The Matrix trilogy, academic life at MIT ... disheartening than others. A friend of mine offers this: once the cycle of tests ... potentials inside charged cubes. Erons is the type of person who carries all

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  or 5 study halls a day, they could get straight As and be at the top of ... a knower of MIT-related things, I have been asked many times how ... to put the anxiety of prospective students to rest; knowing you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  people at MIT: Yes, we have a number of Nobel laureates, but every now and ... a great degree of compassion and commitment, and I greatly look ... all of this will be going up on the blogs quite soon, but first, a brief

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011