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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  classes. At the activities midway, a two hour event in which many of MIT ... MIT is a lot like a bowl of milk. A really really big bowl of milk ... -loving entity of your choice). How big is this bowl of milk exactly? Well, I don

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  Internship Program through one of the undergraduates at a Course 17 booth ... of CPW at an event, talking to people, or doing something around Boston ... my CPW! Interspaced between pictures of Boston and campus were other

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  family attic storing years and years of toys and photo albums. At some ... favorite thing about the new redesign is our new feature at the bottom of ... randomly into the grid at the bottom of pages, so that new visitors can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  whens of financial aid at MIT -- how your financial aid award was ... Parent Welcome on Thursday night at 7:30 pm. Stu Schmill, Dean of ... will talk about some of the programs she's been a part of while at MIT

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  at MIT. I did not, shall we say, come from the most stringent of high ... due to fear of the RIAA] 14. Besides my room, the reading room at ... -to-it-iveness to get through MIT. And at the end of the day, those traits are just as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  classes at my high school and the rest at a college, so i spent a maximum of three hours at school on most days. the rest of my time was spent doing ... of getting better at art, or feeling immersed in how enjoyable it is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  other, besides at networking events, and we take care of our own housing ... Thursday a feeling: walked home in 24-degree weather after spending 12 hours facing off with my own incompetence at work. ok computer

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  example of how font choice can define a building's character, take a look at ... the poster to its left. I thought, at first, that the font was FF DIN ... of its signs, like this one: Most room signs have numerals set in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  ! Subject Evaluation Reports: at the end of each semester, students rate ... class. Make sure to contribute to the reports at the end of each semester ... and hard classes. Revel in the privilege of skipping that one pset at

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  the hourly workload of a class, I'd look at the average number of hours ... 6.7800 (Inference and Information, the subject of the exam and by far the most challenging class I’ve ever taken) but four years of MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  intellectual efforts of any given scientist, lab work fails at least half of the ... freshman year at MIT. A lot of people fail a whole class or two. This is okay ... without a car. Isn't there a delivery-to-door option offered by some of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  ) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my dorm and my family helped me carry all my crates of junk up to my room ... Corridor. Now, one of the things they give you at Orientation Check-In is the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  fruit to name a few of the things we bought. I’ve shopped at Costco ... prefrosh hosted at McCormick with loads of love (and lots of sugar). We ... offer. And in the midst of all of that, take some time to get to know the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread For Those Not Admitted

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Motivation Finals are FUN!

  

  for my final tomorrow. Final Exam 1 of 1 Wednesday December 20, 2006 9 ... originally wanted to take the undergrad version of this class, but last semester, it was cancelled, so I was out of luck. So this term, since I knew

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Updates for the Admitted There's good stuff on your MyMIT portal.

  

  you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... Hello, Class of 2012! There's lots of fun stuff now on your My ... early; providing us a mobile phone number we can reach you at during CPW

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  spring here at MIT and spend a ton of time practicing, cross training and competing in my sports. I want to share my perspective on the pros and cons of ... and management. The big drawbacks of playing a sport at MIT, for me

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  this pandemic and the workload MIT has thrown at us, that none of us have ... 'm unsure whether this is a symptom of the pandemic or a symptom of the dorm ... and devoid of art and light. I hate it. Perhaps hate is too strong a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  comprehensive list, but there should be at least one useful tip. Think of this ... get a sense of what classes are offered in each major. What sounds cool ... resources MIT offers didn't just come out of thin air; they're there for a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023