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• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  time helping to set expectations for the weekend. Because CPW is such a ... it isn't representative of a typical weekend at MIT. It is true that ... in to the weekend, I think you can learn a lot. That being said, CPW is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  ... the good part is that it's like riding a bike and you can pick it up ... around the city for a while. Wandering around Boston is one of my favorite recreations, and is made possible by the fact that Boston is a very safe place

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  since everyone is making such a big deal about immigration, that Latino ... think anyone who is worried about leaving a certain culture behind shouldn ... that MIT is a haven of cultural sensitivity, equality and diversity

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  SnowDays is a snowflake maker, and I think by far the best one. I ... my recent snowflakes, which is so big I had to convert the GIF to a ... , so you're looking at how it's changed over each cut. There's a trick

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  do a varsity sport, deciding where to live, where to eat, how to manage ... is similar to the Associate Advising program, in the sense that it's a ... Overheard at MIT (from sometime Spring 2012 - I've been keeping a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  companies, is what a day as an intern is like. What would I be doing, who ... = La Unión Chicana por Aztlán. LUChA is a student group that offers ... know what the daily life of an MIT student (i.e. me) is like. So i

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be ... Theorem, however, is nice and pretty. Thing Two: A giant paper butterfly ... maybe even meet some new friends. Orientation is just like CPW all over

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  what is a home-grown, born and bred, red-blooded American hick. It ... , there is none. For the first month and a half I was here I did not see a ... short time) which is some 5 miles away. Someone asked me recently how I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  ; Warwara is a 9-hour bus ride and 4-hour hike (on foot or by horse) from ... ;             Gedion’s phone is a Huawei P7. Huawei is a smartphone brand that sells widely in Africa and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  like this: I took a week long course on how to be a leader in engineering, extracted parts out of that and applied it to how the newspaper put out a ... other, you might find that one class teaches you how to think in such a

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  work in a short week, professors seem to believe that it is perfectly ... Domino's is a traditional Thanksgiving meal element... but everybody still ... The thing about short weeks at MIT is that they're not really all

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  a good answer to this question. Part of it is that I haven’t quite ... people some important lesson about life. In some sense, this is a result ... ?” The problem is: I’ve always been a bad fiction writer. For starters, I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  correctly gets a prize. Then again, how would I even know what the correct ... -shirts, which were made by the good folks in LUChA. Awesome. Math question: if ... ,500 applications this year, what is the probability that one of them read your

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Balloons Literally. One thousand. Like, a one with 3 zeros. One times ten to the third.…

  

  So about a month ago, back when I actually wrote blog entries and stuff, Ruth ‘07 spent a week in New Orleans, so we, her floormates, decided to welcome her return with a nice poster:   And a few ballons

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  write it (this is my project, anyway, and I've been working on it for a ... news My favorite thing to do in the summer is cook up a storm, because it ... and repacking is just going to be more of a hassle than it's worth

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  you can see in my bio, I'm a senior at MIT this year. I'm taking a lot of awesome classes. One of them is 6.131: Power Electronics. It's a lab ... , I've gotten to a point where the workload will be manageable from here

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Sometimes we have fun Pictures, pictures, pictures

  

  Winter break is finally over and I'm back at MIT. As much as most ... was asked to bring a dish and we all got together to eat. A-entry is ... miss being here just the same. There was so much I wanted to tell you

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  guided by Innovation, Networking, and Knowledge), is a national science ... let you guys know about a competition that she and fellow MIT undergrads Jennifer Sim and Di Ye have organized: Introducing a great opportunity for

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  professors and classmates and discussions and lectures, and I think this is a ... Hamster Her name is Princess Leia!! She's a princess. She lives in a ... style, here is a picture of Rory.

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  how wonderful and validating my friendships are. We made a nacho table ... ="attachment_62876" align="aligncenter" width="267"] look how pretty it is ... I've never been so excited for a semester. I'm taking classes that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021