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• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  lately about making friends. People asked me how to make friends in college ... CPW seems to be, confessed that they are intimidated by such a new ... fellow MIT students this year, asking how to make better, more meaningful

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  me to write this entry. I've spent the last 24 hours alternating ... laziness. So ~ my time in India is over :( No longer do I wake to the sound of roosters and step outside my door to see peacocks, cows, and stray

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Maseeh! A look into MIT's newest dorm

  

  think the world knows much about Maseeh, so I'm going to give an e ... 's extremely convenient that I literally just have to cross the street to get to ... large whiteboards. You can often find people using the white boards to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Off to Zambia

  

  Through my awesome D-Lab class, I am going to Zambia today until Jan ... the school is able to hold adult classes in the evening. Another one of ... household level that takes advantage of solar properties to treat water. We

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past week, our inboxes have been filled with KAPOW reminders and requests to ... visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar event

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  , I wanted to highlight a few pieces of general advice I had :) Explore the different dorms!  I knew I wanted to live in Burton-Conner as ... )   Go to Midway! Nearly everyone goes to Midway, so this is kind

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

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  "Welcome to New York" as the musical version of a peppermint latte. It was Taylor's first decisively pop album and I was young enough to be easily ... to name the feeling of cool tenderness on my tongue, my entire mouth

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  America to meet with prospective applicants and parents in more than 70 cities. It's going to be exciting! It all starts this Wednesday with two meetings in New England: Jenny Rifken will be traveling to Portland, Maine

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  to meet you!!! I know how excited I was for my CPW, so I can only ... event on Sunday that people shockingly showed up to, despite me putting in ... another virtual event when they have in-person ones to look forward to this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

    Centimeters to Inches   Peering out of the plane’s window, a shy, tanned girl arrived looking from left to right trying to ... stepped down from the plane and learned how to laugh Typing “h”s instead of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  The Class of 2015 list of 101 things to do before you graduate has ... Boston (#37), but I have yet to earn my pirate's license (#64). I recently got to knock off a task that is surprisingly easy to finish at MIT

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions Beginning To Arrive How are you guys doing?

  

  't seem to get anything done. I'm working on the big Q&A thread that I ... folks (1|2|3) and deferred folks (1|2|3). Still, I'd love to hear from you ... this job - so it's nice to know what you're feeling. Ben

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to ... grocery shopping. Over IAP, with mostly nothing else to do because I ended ... note="because it's like, really close to east campus. temptingly close

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  Hi everyone. I'm so exhausted so this is going to be quick, but I want to thank all of you who had my back today and who wrote in with ... ? We have organized the office to be able to start taking phone calls

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  Responses to comments: Edward: Hey, thank you for answering my ... before you were admitted? If so, please advice me on how to do that (and what to say). Have a lovely day. I really am sorry about the delay with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might ... universe, she decides not to follow her first love to America; instead, she ... ago, Kyler came to Cambridge for Visitas, Harvard’s visiting weekend for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  to the great and wonderful institutions that are Princeton and Yale ... semester of MIT. Ode to PNR Pretty please Pass/No Record, how I wish you ... lack. Play hard, try really really hard, pressure just to pass. Can

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  else. I rented out a small room in some building, I learned how to feed myself, I worked, I went to school. There was one day, that November, a ... closed my eyes, waiting for the pain to go away. An hour later, I woke up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  interest in design: “His Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time ... was that Jony had to draw by hand what they planned to make. “I always understood the beauty of things made by hand. I came to realize that what was

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  , to talk about their experiences as a WISE student, host, and admissions ... this blog explaining why WISE is amazing.      Applying to WISE ... they were called fly-ins and applied to several. Daymé heard about WISE

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020