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• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW LiveBlogging Project A big experiment.

  

  variety of prefrosh guest bloggers during CPW. This has been done in the past with great success, and I'm looking very forward to this year ... that basically allows you to upload photos and thoughts to the web in

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  actually were given a 15 minute talk in the bus about how to behave while not ... their "talk to people not from MIT" routines. It's funny, MIT is in a bubble in that, as an MIT student, you start to forget what the outside

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  people around you, often in significant and long-lasting ways how do people in these areas reconcile “not being able to change other people ... stop wanting to. Not ‘some way to get rid of him’ - but a way to stop

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  that I would have had to wait half an hour to get in. Seeing a smaller line to the side, I asked the doorman about the differences in the queues ... which attempt to show the viewers how the end of the world affects the

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  depending on how many dances you elect to do, you have between 1 and 6 hours ... ecstatic to show them the results of how hard i'd worked over IAP. we weren't able to have Mocha Show in 2021, however, so i was intent on contributing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  difficult to come by in Boston; instead, you get bubble tea. I'm not ... experience that I never would've had without my family pushing me to get in the ... shower for the first time in months without having to flop around in flip

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  happened, except this great road trip I took to Elizabethtown College with Chris '09 to see Alaina E'09 and Allison E'07. Despite getting lost AGAIN ... sighting in the Susquehanna River and people in Harrisburg went down to check

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does the MIT admissions process work?

  the details can add a lot of stress to the waiting period, so we're happy to shed some light into that black hole. In fact, we outline our ... After you click the submit button, it's easy to feel as though your
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  class. And in between terms, we get 6 weeks off, which is pretty amazing ... (sorry, I had to rub it in). Also, that whole stereotype of British people ... Course 3 (Materials Science and Engineering). I grew up in New Jersey and

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  was tasked with writing an introductory blog. He spent months trying to come up with the perfect thing to write. Something that would garner ... —drafts that never made it past the first sentence and exist in a folder on his

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  can't begin to tell you how quickly these past two years have gone by ... friends about how my school wasn't going to stick me with a random roommate ... you'd get to meet and interact with your adviser every week. But this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  (...as opposed to other OCs) I'm in Orange County California, in a ... had some great meals. I love traveling to try the different foods and ... four more to go. On Wednesday, after a couple school visits, I had the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  Corridor. Maybe you'll get to see MIThenge.   Eat in the ... it's physically impossible for anyone but me to get a sunburn. And yet ... which you, the prospective, get to experience MIT life minus the hard work

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  as I stare at my completed 7.014 exam. I get up to hand the thick packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its ... economics, and am ready to embark on the next adventure: an internship in New

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  upcoming videos, in lobby 7… and it's pretty great. 4. The List Visual Art ... for its signal of the year coming to an end and the promise of the new one to begin. I prefer the days right after the holidays, taking

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  not yet know what you want to major in, which department or program at MIT appeals to you and why? At MIT, we seek to develop in each ... something important that didn’t go according to plan. How did you manage

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How does one attain a Pirate License?

  arrrrrrr! Come to MIT and earn your Pirate Certificate. All MIT undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate—but students that complete courses in archery, pistol shooting, sailing, and
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  -six back to back 4:45 miles.  How do they do it? The answer is that they ... that I'm here working in the Real World™ (sort of), I've learned to ... what I am proud of, is the fact that I've managed to put in these hours

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  information to come, and trusting that my gut can process it in the background ... until i can listen to it. in practice, no news is urgent enough that i have to listen to it as soon as possible. after all, ignorance is how i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not ... my faces on them to get people to vote for our ticket. They tried to ... Hey, cool, my column's in the Tech! See? My column was a response

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005