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• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  So you might be looking at the CPW schedule and thinking...   ... majority of attendees will be looking for friends, just like you! 3. Visit ... looking at the schedule. K: YOPO. You're only a prefrosh once. 13.A

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  nervousness, looking for distractions, forcing yourself to pretend like there ... nervous prefrosh. I hope you like it! If you're curious, here is the Ze ... bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  notice from looking around, and from reading the comments on some of the ... possible for me to get into MIT without foo?" The answers to these questions ... varsity sport for four years and won the team "hardest worker" award when

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  STEM”. I see the arguments for women-specific programs being adverse to the movement as a whole; I also see the necessity for them to combat ... campus for us: the Margaret Cheney Room. I've studied at a lot of lounges

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In ... . Adam designed the airplanes in Solidworks, optimizing for easy ... . Apparently the museum is a popular destination for MIT alums, because the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  (sounds so official, right?). I made the decision to apply for the Rhodes ... applicant for a while, I was called into the room and led to the head of a ... wandered around downtown LA for a while looking for food (a very common theme

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  we really wanted was the big shiny silver trophy you get for being the ... doing something.  I worked out for the first time since our season ended ... motivator to push through the pain of every workout, to hold my plank for just

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  at the start of each term appealing to the school for their project to ... week when the schedule is released) or a set schedule for all employees ... a great option for people looking for very passive income so that you

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  training and consulting services company. Here is the official course ... target, and then we fired practice rounds for the Top Gun competition ... the border between black and white. We had five minutes for five rounds

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  recently and more frequently than I’d like to admit. For the most part ... . Anybody who knows what it looks like will know that it’s the jankiest shelf ... with all my final exams for the semester and had been admitted into my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  a class. It's been a hard few weeks for my friends too, with the long ... 's also been a rough few weeks for the MIT community overall, with the ... for Your Thoughts", a compilation of the responses of members from all

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the ... for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no ... our chairman for telling us about the ice cream when we're not permitted

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  officially register for classes, plus ask your faculty advisor the many ... kicks off "welcome week" for the Class of 2023. At some schools, maybe ... !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  my thesis. content warning for the following paragraph, for mentions of ... available here (eventually a more-official-looking version will be made ... , officially, finally done with undergrad. i looked back at my notes and found

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  . This morning, the official MIT Gangnam Style music video was released to ... Influential People in the World" in 2012 for his liquid metal battery research ... In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  weeks old for me, but the least fresh interns have been here for over two ... , Thursday nights will often devolve in the following manner for the less ... Facebook is somewhat infamous on the college software developer scene

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  stepping stone for another one disrupt your dreams and the progress you ... Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a few days ago a fuse broke and all the outlets in our kitchen stopped

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  far away, because looks at all these new experiences you've had. The new ... for what's ahead and I think the blogs are no different. There are 10 ... First of all, can you believe the blogs are 10 years old? That

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  incentive for me to just enjoy looking at the fire truck on top of the dome ... to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... around campus. MIT is blessed with buildings that kind of look like the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  : The weather was fine. CJ: Look, when we planned this, the forecast for ... motivation for what we did? Alan: …not really. But there is, at the very least ... of this done for the London Underground, so I latched onto the idea

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020