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• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my ... comments to a post in some older blog y'all don't know about, when I was so ... torn apart my house trying to find a crowbar so I could break into my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  centimeter of precipitation - enough to finely coat the Earth's surface with a negligible amount of snow - to be a shocking amount. And that's understandable ... alone at all. Your first adjustment, then, will be to prepare for the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  At this point, the admission website must appear to be "all about CPW, all the time" and to a large extent our office is that way too. We're getting ready to welcome the prefrosh and their parents to four days of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  On June 14th, I began my journey to MIT. I packed all my clothes ... , as some people see it, I signed up for a preview of hell to replace my ... into Maseeh Hall, where I awkwardly approached the wrong desk to check

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  Tomorrow morning I fly back to MIT, and I'm writing to you with ... all the feeling there decided to concurrently take a few hours off to siesta, and have left me to use only my eyebrows for expressions (I don

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  to meet two parents (hello!) who follow the blogs. They tell me that ... those who leave comments are applicants, I would love to hear from some of the many parents out there. It would be great to "meet" you! The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  which to furnish their (or their student's) dorm room. While I am not going to list obvious things, like soap and shampoo, I want to say that not everything needs to be sent from home. Some folks think they need to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  wondering what's happening to your applications. The honest truth is, we're working pretty hard to read each and every one of them. I know the wait is ... about where I'd end up in just a few months. The only way to give each and

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  , I've been feeling very unwhole. Stuck, almost. Every week seems to run ... about 10 hours to complete. If you are on the better end of the CS scale ... , then you'll be around 10-12 hours. I've been essentially trying to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  emails, phone calls, and blog comments, to say nothing of spillovers to sites like Quora, College Confidential, and /r/ApplyingToCollege.         A snapshot of our incoming email traffic to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  Kansas City, I had a 6.006 (Intro to Algorithms) midterm later that day ... throwback to last year's Eastern Sectionals, as I was vying for a spot on the ... myself mentally and physically fit to compete was one giant monster in and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  January 10 On the plane from Panama to Quito What a goofy ... out to dry were still SOAKED, and applied the hairdryer treatment with ... in February. Raphael very kindly woke up extra early to help me pack

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  We bring the sketch to you! The internet is full of weirdness!

  

  our 60" HDTV and server, when we decided to tell the random stranger that they were talking to a room full of MIT students. As it turns out, they had a friend that was just accepted to MIT EA. I'm not sure how much

  • by Snively '11
  • February 4, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  Here's one less thing to worry about when applying to MIT: Students apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the ... asks students to list their "course of interest" only, and the choice
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  one if i had to write a literary analysis on my blog posts, i'd talk ... my situation, and feeling like it's my choices that brought me to where ... truly found paradise". and in i (don't) want the summer to end, i talk

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  [/annotation] and asked if we were going to make [annotation note="Because Winnie ... little Cantonese growing up, our ability to communicate in Chinese is Pretty Limited. Granted, we only attempt to do so with food items — and I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  that you should come to if you happen to be a current mit student ... ohms. arranging here refers to the process of taking a song and turning ... highest to lowest pitch). we use musescore to arrange songs; it’s a free

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / Events

  How to have dinner with your Professor and have it paid for by the UA!

  

  and 2-5 friends can ask any of your professors out for a feast, to any ... invite him/her out to an evening banquet. Register online and have all ... incredible opportunity to develop a closer bond to some of the world's best

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  , aka undergrad research."]UROP,[/annotation] I took Intro to Deep ... the class started, it has kind of blown up due to all of the lectures ... deepfake specifically making the rounds in 2020. Given the opportunity to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  We haven’t been blogging as much as we’d like to. Senior fall and ... .  We don’t have time right now to write something too substantial, so in attempt to not fall off the face of the blogs, here is a list, in no

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020