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• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  , and once caught a cold in 90 degree weather. I’m still not sure how that ... mean, not to blame him or anything, he’s been doing a great job ... ’t called in a week. I’ve been kind of hosed. Mom: Are you sick again? You

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  viewed it in a different light. We then contemplated how important getting ... games. I really, really love playing this game, in spite of how ... ? Check. Getting closer to them as you learn things you never knew about

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  they get to the author. --- CPW has been by far one of the best ... to hell" with an arrow pointing to MIT, but I'd have to get on the road ... about birth control. I didn't get to sleep much (I only slept about 10

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  fully to one school, while still hoping to get in elsewhere and with ... My grandfather used to tell a "story" about how when kids came home ... September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  exploration at MIT and if MIT has its way to help people find interests and in ... different majors to help you think about classes and research opportunities in ... recruit you to (and inform you about) their majors. Later, in the Spring

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  it's a cloudy Tuesday morning and i'm walking to Caffe Nero to get a ... my house in Central, and the latte is conveniently free thanks to a ... freshman year. that person can only staple in groups of up to four people

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  therapy to get some sense of how to move forward. And yet, everyone around ... disparities, imagine how hard it must be to actually be in their shoes, and to ... , in broad daylight, when a policeman chokes an unarmed black man to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  recently graduated and is now working in the Cambridge area. We decided to ... things to see. There's a lot to see in Boston; we only got to two of these ... the 1790s in Boston’s North End, and to this day is still an active

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  voice. In the process of learning how to put together an effective piece ... friends, new line of work. In the first few months of adjusting to fast ... distilling my thoughts over the last 4-5 years. That is, in addition to no

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  toward your GPA at MIT. Therefore, your goal, in general, is to get more ... things and I thought I would relate them to you in the form of reviews. I ... Spencer '07 in a 654-seat theater. That's a lot of seats. Now, I have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  advance. Get their phone number. Arrange to check in and coordinate your ... thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past ... . Campus feels festive. We get to meet new people. There’s free food. However

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  now, we're not going there. What I do want to focus on is how in an ... get the idea. So it's hard for me to often answer the question about how ... students, people from home, and the like is: "How do you feel like you fit in

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT ... results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I ... scratched” [1]. In simpler terms, harder materials are more difficult to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something ... school preview in many ways and I wanted to find out whether I would like ... that helped me be less afraid to reach out in the first place is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to work with actual research, and can get ... to college. It's great to have something I'm passionate about again ... really hard not to show how angry I was at 6.009 and myself. A week after I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  care about how long it takes you to drive to get a Crunchwrap Supreme ... . When reading applications, we try our best to get a good sense of the place(s) in which you’ve grown up—reading up on how a place has developed

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

   for yourself. Popular HASS Classes: How to (Maybe) Get In Some HASS classes at ... in switching. Plus, you get to try different flavors of a subject. The ... 1st Quarter, in order to get into the desired one. This goes

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  ’m gonna get this done so early! I’m going to put so much time and energy in ... to get work done) in order to finish my application. After a short ... panic set in. You're going to get nightmares of every tiny mistake you

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  parents love getting to visit me in Boston. The Parent Lounge: I hope you ... financial aid award, when your supplemental forms are due, how to pay your balance, how to find on-campus student employment, and how your online

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  adventure to Montreal in the great land of Canada. Neither of us had been to ... : So all in all, it was a successful and spontaneous adventure to the ... . She asked me if I wanted to go to Canada, and I said yes. About 24 hours

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016