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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  programs you are interested in, and try to see how well MIT is a fit for you academically and culturally. How do I get around campus? What if I want to go ... lost walking to Pika late at night in the cold, and was unsure how to use

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  ; I don’t know how to swim. I got two and a half laps in when I realized ... ![/annotation] You are required to swim 4 laps in the pool without stopping, with 3 ... in a pool deep enough for me to have to swim since I was, like, 8. So

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  . See, I'm starting to get interview invites from some of the graduate ... , I need to make travel arrangements. I'm supposed to be in LA in two ... rate, they need to get to me soon -- I just checked the Boston-LA flight

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... and walking to the Cambridge train station in sub-zero temperature, say ... a professor from MIT, here in Cambridge!!! How awesome is that

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend

  

  machine will kick in soon. Have any questions or concerns? Post them and I'll try to get back to you ASAP! In the meantime...get pumped. ... CPW IS ABOUT TO BEGIN and it's going to be AWESOME. It snowed today

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  gets in Arizona in summer. I expected the wet towel in my room to dry ... to run in. But it’s getting closer, and each uptick in temperature is ... ’s my job to step in whenever someone complains of the heat and say, “You

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  in Beijing called Linked Hybrid. Of course I had to see Simmons ... Maps and found a way to get there via public transportation. But once I ... , shuffling through options in my head - I could go back to the bus station, go

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  my ability to get into grad school. About how I could totally recover ... living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real ... that build of one another in order to move towards the desired product

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  committee worked hard over the course of several days to determine how many students we could take at this time, and which students to admit. I sat in ... extremely difficult. In the end, we were very happy to be able to admit these

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  ’s awkward to get a call during dinner from someone you don’t know. But, we ... because I was lazy, but because I wasn’t interested enough in the subject to want to dive into the deep end…I was fine with wadding in the shallow

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET i guess the title kind of says it all, huh?

  

  early action, and because you are the closest in age to the 2026s and I am ... ME  IN A MICKEY MOUSE HAT kellen: but they won't be able to see your ...  apply.mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In, and then hit “Forgot Your Password?” and follow

  • by kellen manning
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  . In retrospect, this might just have been because I didn't know how to ... Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the Great Campus Exodus in March, I decided to pick up running again. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  you to see how strong the connection is in Nigeria!” he told me, and ... join Sela in the fall as CTO. That was how he got to New York, where Sela ... student entrepreneurship clubs and organizations. In addition to taking on

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  for a different reason, whether it was to get somewhere or just to ... parkway in boston, so that i could actually climb the stairs to the bridge ... close to the water and peer in. But, I found that most of the grass was

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  me off guard. To me, this was fun. I get to spend every waking hour ... A friend of mine ended up studying lit at a nearby college here in ... . As I walked her around the myriad of different labs that serve host to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  of your life) i. people who haven’t been in relationships tend to ... i could get x to like me or life would be much better if i were dating ... which i’ve listened to a lot over the past few weeks. i’m getting into

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  yourself to new ideas. For me, personally, in the summer leading up to the ... in a long time, the only person I had to be responsible for was myself ... out how to manage myself. Managing myself included making sure I wasn

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  , and you get to decide what that lab works on. However, in order to do ... -Doctoral students that all want this position. So, in order to get this position you ... figures out how to apply them so, now that I know inducing this makes that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more ... Teachers Association, to help let teachers know about the challenge and how

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  years and upperclassmen, and get a feel for everything MIT has to offer ... .g. TDC for 2015, 2014, and 2013). In recent years, in an attempt to make ... Exploration, or REX for short, which is part of how housing is assigned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022