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• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  . So for those of you in high school, wide-eyed and unsure of how to get ... I get a ton* of emails from both applicants, newly accepted frosh ... : "MIT is full of amazing people, I don't think I'm all that amazing, how

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  getting shit done. i love setting goals because they offer opportunities to ... bed at 10:03, i can't believe that i used to get up, eat breakfast, and ... ] get into the habit of stretching after you work out don't try to jump

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  puzzled again? a little puzzle for the class of '09

  

  So this week, each day of Orientation, the students have been getting a group of scavenger hunt questions to solve, and today they get to ... this one easy. How many entries to date? Please do not post the answer

  • by Bryan
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  situation in the most gracious way. Does it still feel bad not to get an A ... I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be ... , really wanted to do, something I had brought up in our group chat because I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  some parties, I went to sleep around midnight in hope of getting a good ... thing I must mention is how infinitely cooler it is to visit the East ... Providence to Boston (I'm actually from San Diego, but our plane landed in

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  months of SAT subject tests and trying to figure out how to apply for ... them. I had turned in what I needed to. My essays were some semblance of ... them in even if I wanted to. [annotation note="arguably much shorter

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  , remember in the summer when you used to get nice, well-cropped color pictures ... of what you're going to get is going to be camera-phone pictures. I ... '07 and I went out to dinner at the Porter Exchange in Cambridge with a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here ... us to move in right away, b) was big enough for everyone, and c) gave ... gets pretty cold in here. Good thing I’ve got the Wisco blood ;). Ok

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  participants get to burn food and then eat it)? What's worse, is that 6 minutes ... of lectures entitled “FIREHOSE” (in reference to a popular descriptor ... throughout campus, prefrosh will get to learn about Algebraic Topology, Space

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  . Admissions officers should get involved in these communities if they want to ... inform decisions, either in regard to admission or in regard to the ... applicants are in danger of getting rejected because of an internet profile

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  said "Take chances! Make mistakes! Get messy." I'll add to that only ... speaks the truth. (for those confused, i must point you to the wikipedia ... a week ago, I feel compelled to at least pretend I have some salient

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  professions, in a way Santa and Poseidon both have a lot to do with to snow. I ... Here’s what I woke up to on Friday morning: massive snowflakes, falling sideways and sticking to everything. I wasn’t brave enough to take

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Doing well??? Uh, sure... I guess

  

  've changed! As for my UROP, my schedule is making it hard to get some hours in ... update y'all on how my new schedule was going. And the answer to the ... up my pride and start going to office hours/getting help :^) Isn't that

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • April 3, 2019
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How many students play sports at MIT?

  program in the nation. About one in four MIT students join a team during their time at MIT. For students who want to stay active but who don't wish to participate in varsity athletics, there are also more than 30
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  fox will make sense later[/caption] I want to major in computer science ... also up there in my interests but I didn't want to work with organic ... , there was just something about coding that clicked with me. IDK how to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  Wellness Coordinator in New Vassar offered us a variety of stress toys to get ... I want them to?" And in a way, MIT has helped me get through this. My ... I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  card and can get in. For that reason, I usually don't own these, but I was lucky enough to get to go to Costco recently so I'm all stocked up ... useful to have some flour in a shaker jar. It makes it a lot easier to dust

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  plowing makes it easier for me to get to my class which starts at three ... , walkway, and a red thing... its uhhh, getting harder and harder to sing.♪ ♫Close up of the red thing in front of a building that's orange, Oh how I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  dinners and parties. In French House, I've learned how to feel responsible ... that they're important ideas to have in my toolkit of Answers To ... , a living group in New House. 2) To be perfectly honest, I don't know

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  , but also how they'd built it in the hallway and nobody had been able to ... 't describe the physical appearance of this fish in such a way as to convey how ... location. Said item is now free game and the first person to get to it gets

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008