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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  kitchen table on a daily basis is really starting to sink in. It's not that ... something of a college preparatory nature occurs multiple times per week. For seven months, the notion of a new life and future along the Charles River

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  too much. I finally felt like I was a real college student and that I ... -high atrium to its bamboo forest to its bold colors to its people. This is Building 46, home to all that is Course 9: Brain/Cognitive Sciences. Which

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  /gardens: And here is Kayla climbing at a local climbing gym in Montreal ... system, so all signs are in metric units. Also, everything is in French in ... receptionists were really nice, the fare was not too much, and we got breakfast

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  For those of you who couldn't make it to campus for CPW, here is a video recap of much that occurred! I hope this is helpful =) And for those ... offered activities ranging from 2x4 Jenga to big screen DDR to a liquid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  national convention, which is conveniently also in Louisville this year, then ... , Georgia. It's very strange. The first few times I went back to a parental home from my college home, I felt like I was sliding into a different

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  my next degree and had a sensational time. Now, many years later, we revisit rejection with a renewed lens. Professional writers and performers ... even a literal game to conquer, in a pressing effort to desensitize

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  rate fell nearly a percentage point, from 12.5% to 11.6%. This year's rate, approximately 1 in 9, is a lot lower than when I applied in 1996 (1 ... a waitlist place, or how many students we will ultimately admit from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  knowledge that MIT is the place for you, be sure to give other schools a fair ... nitrogen ice cream. CPW apparently is one of the best times of the year - as DChen '10 said, "when I left CPW, I was left with a longing to return

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  wayyyy too early (anything pre-December is too early in my book, in case ... mid-semester work than coming up with an awesome costume, but such is college life sometimes. My dad decided to send me a surprise Halloween

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  MIT yearbook Technique, who is a total pro as you're about to see. I ... Ralph Lauren, which for those who don't know is a complex shade of ... it'd be nice to have a single, since our floor is already so awesomely

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  highlighted for me is that I just haven’t come across a lot of great resources ... below. There is a good chance that everyone else will appreciate your ... point out that I am just a single member of an otherwise exceptional group

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  it's much akin to trying to appreciate the shirt your friend is wearing ... taillights in front of you. Climbing as a sport is essentially non ... , which is quite a bit different from what actual climbing is like

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  not require the SAT II Writing exam (a test that i don't like much ... infectious. It really is the coolest place on earth (proof in a future blog ... and schooling had instilled too much of a spirit of service into me, so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Women of the East Side 2015 Calendar The stresses and strains of organizing a giant project

  

  goes to a student who lives on the east stide of campus, and the fund is ... social medias So much time In summary, an awesome model-pretty-maker/organizer, Annie L. '15, a photographer, Raeez L. '14, and I set out to accomplish

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Activities Midway Each year, MIT exhibits its 300+ student activities. Friday, I checked them out for you.

  

  Friday was the annual Activities Midway, a hugely popular Orientation ... Activities (ASA). The ASA is an entirely student-run organization that recognizes and governs MIT's student groups. I love that students have so much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  pound. I'm sure CMS.100 is a worthwhile class, but grapes at 88 cents ... .99 for it. It's just that this one looks too much like a rickshaw. Nothing ... Registration week was a heinous tangle of scheduling; seven (7

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  bacteria and plants) is a moth. Many are large and colorful. Some are rare ... a new program without much money, but they would be delighted to ... arrived in another world. The rainforest is a solid block of plants. There

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  general. A lot of you talk about getting into MIT as though it is your goal ... have been brought up to think that getting into a good school is one of ... all in perspective, is that MIT is not an end but a beginning. I'm aware

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  , which is really cool. It’s exciting (though perhaps a bit more stressful ... the photos. The robot is a Kuka robot arm (which is part of the ... robot. That’s what I did over IAP! The podcast is from something a long

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  , back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to explain what MIT is like, not so much to explain what admissions is like ... of my own. A lot of it is standard stuff, stuff that you'll hear all

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009