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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh ... breakdown for five minutes when I realized I was going to college with a ... times), and instead of whipping out my map, I took that as a chance to ask

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  well-known physical principles. When a voltage is applied to the foils, a ... if a few electrons were to come near the foil, the charge on the surface would be amplified below. It may be easier to think of the GEM as a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  would be missing a lot of class. It's good to try to plan things out ... studying and go to sleep. Getting all your work done is for sure a priority, but everyone who goes to MIT is a person, and people need sleep, and

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  communication strategy to showcase a constantly changing mix of videos -- from old ... tuned. But for this video, it was our goal to give prospective students a ... mostly we wanted it to tell a story of what our community really loves

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  a blogger outing to go get ice cream! Best day ever! Argh, now I have to find Adam and drag him back to his computer -- he got a two-day extension on a paper for 21A.100 that was supposed to be due yesterday, so I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  awesome Nigerian food—how I missed that!—and looking forward to a wedding ... circular dancing to a synchronized warble my cousins shimmied to, the heavy ... management skills of a chimpanzee on rollerblades. But it all comes down to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  can only see a short distance away). This isn't to say that flat ... some extent, make sense. A perhaps less controversial way to understand ... hell it means to "be a mathematician". I felt like this would be the only

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  's left from last semester is a bunch of pictures that I'm about to share. I walked out of my room one day to discover a huge mess. Well, it may have taken a while for the mess to present itself (perspective and all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.

  

  students, and students already out of school. You do not need to have a ... school has sent a hardcopy transcript, you are still required to submit the ... to report -- so if you're in a school that doesn't have midyear grades

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  my travels over the last month, I just want to take a minute to thank ... soon. I'm also happy to announce the arrival of a new blogger, Evan ... a plane to California for the Ivy-Plus conference. This conference

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  Labs, a program that gives MIT students the chance to teach students in ... decided to visit Doha, Qatar, with Jade B '26, a friend also going to ... the start to a fruitful series of Fiona Travel Blogs. Day 0 - 1/2 I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  another blog post. All you need to know about this IAP was that it was a ... semester, I haven't had time to process it all. In lieu of a more thoughtful ... 't required to be on meal plans during IAP, and Next House has a fairly large

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.

  

  automatically pull all blog entries related to a given topic into the left ... more to tell, but I have to go play a show at the middle east. Look for ... So here's a sneak peek at what I've been working on all summer... the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  . I applied to be a blogger for MITAdmissions two times before I was ... I really wanted it to pay off. I put a piece of myself into that ... . And a part of me wanted to stop writing entirely for a month. I thought

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  Here’s a little tribute to lobby 7. Since my start at MIT in January, I’ve walked through this lobby nearly every weekday to get to my ... chancellor speak, seen the president dance, witnessed a hack, listened to a

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  got picked to be a FAP (Freshman Arts Program) counselor, which is an ... the camera to "night vision" for a evening shot, with the characters ... ! We were told that we would have two and a half hours to make the movie

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  hygiene, and there was no way i was going to maintain such a long streak ... took a break from school that spring to do an internship, i told people ... how i would have to smash my foot into the ground a thousand times more

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  works. In some respects that's tricky to answer, but I can give it a shot ... different dorms. After visiting and getting a feel for the dorms you get to ... would like to live in them (1 = I WANT TO LIVE THERE! 17 = I'm a guy, you

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if my application is disrupted by a major event beyond my control?

  that our hearts go out to you. We understand that there is a lot on your ...  [email protected]. We’ll be here to talk to you and figure out a way to make sure we get your ... If your ability to apply to MIT has been affected by disasters or
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  have to rely on my kitchen for dinner, not a dining hall; I have to wake up before 5 a.m.; I therefore try to fall asleep before 9 p.m.; I don ... around telling people I wanted to be a cancer researcher. It sounded so

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011