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• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  Oh hi there. I’m back on campus now for IAP (Independent Activities Period, but I think “It’s Awesome Pterodactyl” is much more descriptive), which traditionally is when all the students…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  This past weekend was the legendary Campus Preview Weekend at MIT and I was extremely stoked to finally visit. Not only was it my first time visiting campus, but it…

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  Regular acton applicants who have been watching the online tracking system at MyMIT may be wondering, where’s my recommendation from Mr. Brown? How about the letter from Ms. Chu? And…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  Back in Massachusetts! And Rush stuff is starting! *excited* There’s building in the courtyard. I’ll take pictures as soon as I replace the batteries in my camera. Rush – REX…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  FPOPs are freshman pre-orientation programs, where you get to come to MIT a week early and learn about a specific aspect of MIT while getting to know the other freshmen…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  Happy holidays to all! I am writing this post for several reasons, which I will list here (notice that lists will soon become the theme of this post): 1. I…

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  My earliest memory of making a presentation consists of saying nothing at all. It was fifth grade science class. Each student had to design and present a new kind of…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  At CPW 2011, I had, hands down, the best ribs I’ve ever had in my life. Saturday. I’m helping Mikey prepare for the closing show. We’re watching the Logarhythms sing.…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  My hometown is a real-world manifestation of the phrase “the wrong side of the tracks.” In fact, I’m from the wrong side of TWO tracks. In Middletown, NJ, the residents…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  doors to Boston University’s Metcalf Hall. Along with the hundreds ... in Zahir Dossa’s class (see my last post), “SP.233: Think ... that I’ve seen. Anne’s recruited 50 students, predominantly

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / CPW

  Hottest ever CPW ouch global warming

  

  republish it to show how absurd this CPW's weather will be. I updated the ... !) Here's the chart itself, larger version here. Each block is thick if it's raining and thin if it isn't, and blocks are also colored

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT-vangelion (Pi Day 2023) 3/14/23 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  .mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s the same place that you ... you. In the meantime… well, that’s up to you! You could watch all the ... could also check out some of the highlights from Isabella ‘24’s You

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  and what you’re good at. It’s been almost two decades so ... Orchestra or Concert Band or other music groups. It’s a way to keep in ... people your age are probably experts. By age eighteen, it’s probably

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Things change, but the friends remain

  

  picked up running. I guess that's what happens in your late 20s and 30s.

  • by Celena C. '12
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caps Lock Pancakes DINNERISH.

  

  For the past four and a half years I’ve lived on an all-women’s floor called BMF (badass mother—s) in Random Hall. Most of our social and home-academic life happens round the clock in the kitchen, over food and homework and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2014!

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things:  1) I've begun cold-brewing my own iced tea as per Kenji's instructions 2) I've setup a WeMo Switch connected to IFTTT so I can turn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2014
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  I’m fast asleep, probably snoring lightly and elegantly. My body’s ... and the Arts, passing through a 3-midterm, 1-pset, 1-mini-paper week. It’s ... with infinite wisdom, I realize that it’s nearly five p.m. I mumble an

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  will later, but today’s not that day. I just wanted to share this ... promise): It’s a lake, it’s frozen. I am standing on it while taking this ... than intended before coming back to campus, I forget that there’s a world

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Coin Is Found! The Mystery Hunt ends after 36 hours.

  

  entry. Thanks to Random / S.P.I.E.S. for running another terrific Mystery

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab?

  The Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) was created to coordinate and promote water and food research at MIT. MIT’s efforts are aimed at a future in which the world’s water and food needs are