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• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  in the CPW booklet (or, these days, the mobile app). Those are ... . And if I miss something, feel free to ask additional questions in the ... sleeping bag. Space in the room might be limited, especially if your host

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  tl;dr Today I’ll be answering your questions about MIT portfolios in the comment section below. To tide you over before questions come in, I ... creative individuals interested in an education centered on science and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  paint imaginable is represented in the cluster of cans in the corner, and ... shall be eaten." or "Wear Shoes or DIE" The cast: The EC rush chairs, in ... earlier than the move-in date, meet the freshmen and build ALL the things

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  -campus visitors, reading your applications, and duking it out with my colleagues in ... with our check-in process, I get to see many of you who come to Cambridge ... ? Some of you may be wondering, what’s the point of visiting in the first

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  ,”[/annotation] etc. in every sentence, there are two other types of common phrases I ... round of poker or mobile game hyperfixation the night before a midterm ... on me and my fellow frosh. In the aftermath of our last [annotation

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  Roast, somewhere down in Somerville, because even when it’s not in our ... home, whether it lives on one day in sub-communities in other dorms, or large houses full of displaced friends, or in the hearts of everyone who

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  conference in Florida! The view from our hotel room. As its name indicates ... behavior in response to visual stimuli to neuroscience experiments to tease ... been working on (which could potentially be exploratory or in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  really just sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day? Do you work on ... working at a large tech giant, and the perks were an added bonus to the ... . These opinions are in every way my own and don’t reflect Google’s views

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  little dread, and awkwardly asking to check-in. After [annotation note ... mysterious liquid and peppered with stray hairs. [annotation note="In retrospect, this description makes the decisions I make in the body of this

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  organize my tabs in this order: slack, [annotation note="a software platform ... 've used a lot of software-engineering-specific terms in this blog post, which might provide insight to people interested in software engineering

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  he’s a verifiable icon in the MIT community. I wish I had checked how ... of realizing somewhere in the middle that I had FOUR finals to prepare ... extension during a week in which I was almost too stressed out to move, but it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship ... heat pumps.  In the three weeks, I have mostly just snuggled and fed and ... food people have brought to me. Life with a small baby is rich in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  the best college events in the nation—Campus Preview Weekend at MIT ... about the school that I’ll be attending in just a few short months. My CPW story can be summed up in three pictures. Friendship: From R to L

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  Pi Day is a big deal at MIT. Not only does it go hand-in-hand with ... . JOHN: We’re both heading over there in a few minutes. Gonna be dope. A ... costumes? The flyers didn’t really elaborate on— FRANK AND JOHN: (in unison

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  . I graduated more than a month ago with the double major in CMS & 7 ... to MIT. Not in a trapped way. I just thought I'd want to get as far ... back next February. More on all that later, though. Because in the past

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  wedding, and the advising, and the teaching (I really did) - but in my ... stuff, so I schedule it in. Essentially: there are no empty calendar days ... : white. I could wake up in the morning and think: "what do I feel like doing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  have we. Let me explain how. How (and why) we redesigned In 2016, we met ... , culminates today, in the launch of the MITAdmissions redesign. Why did we ... had on so many readers. However, as is always the case in web design

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  pursuing a Ph.D. in quantum information next year! probably because I haven ... advice and self-help content, whether in the form of long-form blogs by wise and accomplished seniors, or anonymous forum posts from fellow

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  wanted to preface this post real quick by jumping in and giving a little ... we were in Random. As a joke, Raymond decided he wanted to "secretly train in chess" so he could later challenge Chambers in a chess match and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  started working in the Sabeti lab at the Broad, my thesis lab. This is the lab I most wanted to work in and least expected to take me, the lab ... the Broad from outside. The purple awning in the distance is Sebastian

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015