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• Blog / Admissions

  Won’t Be Long Now… Some pictures to tide you over.

  

  the rest of the admissions team. Not my favorite part of the job (I'm ... provides a bit of closure to an important part of the admissions cycle. It won't feel real until Mail Services comes to pick up the packages later

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  aesthetic, and I'm a big fan of clashing and bright colors like you see there ... Google when I interned there for a second summer. I liked how it didn't ... favorite Disney movie, and Ariel is my camp nickname when I'm a counselor for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  though this class is a requirement, I'm going to enjoy it a lot. One of the ... .013 lecture, I'm honestly kind of excited to be back in a biology class. I ... have been a Course 7. Other things I'm doing this semester: UROP: One

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  green building: This really was a terrible event, and I can't believe ... I wrote a blog post about how excited I was for CPW last week.  Other posts include the ones by Lydia K. '14 and Anna H. '14.  One thing that I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  person, a better person, or even just made better decisions, this wouldn't ... you just can't. you actually can't. you can try but you can't. last friday night was the beginning of teammate hunt, a puzzlehunt written with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  . everything seems to be great: i'm learning a lot from the internship, there ... interns wait for someone to pick us up and take us to a welcome and orientation meeting in a conference room somewhere. we watch a prerecorded video

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what a sunrise sounds like another one for your ears

  

  sunday morning, before it rained, just before sunrise as the full moon was setting over walker memorial, that brisk boston breeze and the runners along the esplanade (there are always…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  a piece distinct.) 21M.235 ("Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800") is part of a 4-class series: 21M.220 Early Music (early Middle Ages until ... mention that 21M.235 is a HASS-A. MIT's HASS requirement means that, on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  , Stephen Colbert interviewed Richard Hersh, a former university president who recently coauthored a book on how higher education is failing in America ... ). Stephen, though, had some unkind words about MIT, and moreover didn't seem

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  tl;dr: CPW is awesome. Meet EVERYBODY. Don't you dare be shy. If you ... ’ll give you a glitter fairy sticker and a sheet of bubble wrap. I experienced my CPW, two years ago, through a downpour. I was temped at Mac

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  haven't taken a machine learning (ML) course before but I have some ... words, it isn't such a straightforward task to decide how we program our ... lot of my time working on a PSET often isn't even solving it: it

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  dance, from traditional Asian dance to K-Pop; members perform at a ... ) How did you start dancing?  I honestly can’t remember a time in my life ... dances when I discovered K-Pop in 4th grade (it was actually because of a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  -circuiting can be a tricky matter. If you can't hold an umbrella, you may simply be ... AMAZING. If you haven't seen the 2.009 intro video please do, it's beautiful. If you want a summary of what 2.009 is about, Chris made a post. 140

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  a dining hall. I strongly believe that you shouldn't pick a dorm based ... three ovens, as well as a fridge for each class year. Don't rush to buy ... also feed members. If you aren’t in a group and don’t have time for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  blogger guy?" a couple of times. But, I mean really, who wouldn't recognize ... . That doesn't mean we didn't take some time to have fun. I made a point of ... because I was shooting over the Aflac booth. Turns out, I'm a terrible shot

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  let me tell you, it wasn't pretty. Like a preteen boy with more bacne ... Graduate - spend a summer in Boston. I don't think you'll ever really get to ... Something happened to me this summer. I'm not sure exactly when or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  sunny and there's a high of 73 degrees tomorrow. i haven't shared ... it's sunny in my room right now. yeah, i use a standing desk ... 's a closer look at the bookshelf in the corner: my room was missing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  [rice, rice, baby] Chicken Fried Rice Stir Fry [I'm a bit of a fried ... ) before second semester start in February. And I'm alone. No classmates down ... after being patted down by a very kind TSA agent while one of his

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  they are a Benedict Arnold. Coach K’s last name is pronounced “shih ... ’s mouth doesn’t seem to be moving? But radio is not a visual media ... Finnish delegation stopped him from competing in the 10,000m (a title he was

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  fall semester, the fuel from Orientation leaked, and I couldn’t keep up a ... easily. On my first full day here, I jumped onto a trapeze, despite the ... dorms to explore, a hundred activities to pursue, a thousand friends to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015