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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I live in Boston are preparing to enjoy the marathon on this coming Monday but first we are getting ready for Campus Preview Weekend (CPW) which

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  famously nerdy culture. But also: the MIT where 25% of the undergraduates participate in one of the 33 varsity sports. The MIT where, underneath all the ... on sports teams are part of some pretty phenomenal programs with a long

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  bounce around our brain are fun to think about – but imagine if you had an ... , a communication-intensive class I took this past spring where we have ... presentation that looks like a big research convention, where all of us present

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  out and have an experience afterwards, no matter where you are. It can ... This summer, I decided to take an internship overseas. Where in the ... station <10 minutes before the bus left, had no idea where I was going

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  MIT have these "Hell weeks" where there are lots of tests and projects ... , and exercising?). MIT isn't all fun and games. There are times when you ... perhaps 5 classes and a UROP are too much... But heck, I've learned so much

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  to talk about where we've all been, where we all are, and where we are ... Regular Action applicants are about to. So what do we do next? Once your applications are complete and all material received, your application goes to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  bandied about. To me there are few concepts more sacred than that of community. What is more important that community? It's the place where you ... 's exactly what you hope to do when choosing where to attend college. The same

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  The last week and some are a blur, a long, joyous drink of EC. When I ... ’m [annotation note='and giving them free advertising on the blogs now ... sense of MIT, but only that: a sense. And now that classes are starting

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  out at the table, along with some of our LA ECs. If you are at ISEF ... Thursday, which is Public Day and when the finalists are at their projects to ... are PhD students at USC and eat crazy-good LA food. May 20-21: BAMF Next

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  leave campus every month with an MIT group. There are heaps of ... substitution, or u-substitution, in that monthly amounts are probably good for ... and your experience thus far. UAAP and First Year Experience are teaming

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ’t have any free MIT wifi. But the biggest change for me is this: I am not ... ’s what summer internships are for, or at least that’s what I told myself ... interview. “Oh, um, wow! I mean, sure, when are the interviews?” I asked

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  last Friday, despite the fact that spambots are among my most adoring and ... soul of this photograph and you will discover who you truly are.” I may ... Physics Students) in your major are a fantastic way of getting to know

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  The next few weeks are going to be something different. To start, it ... 's about 4 and out come the cardboard boxes and the cats are just having a field day they know something is definitely up. At 5:30 4 boxes are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  gift shop that said “There are 10 types of people in this world ... famous hacks were mentioned. Hacks are the absolute best part of the culture. I must disagree with the shirt and way that there are two kinds of

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  free from anxiety. This semester is pretty unique for me. I am studying ... concentrations, which are Pre-medicine and Biomedical Engineering. For the first ... principles. Later in the course, we are going to study nonideal solutions

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  pretty standard in other parts of the country. Are they regional, or did you all eat them too? There are other things to be said, but my job (I ... are losers. Have a great dinner with what's remaining of my dorm

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  CPW are awesome. All of them. Here are some especially awesome ones that ... we haven't really practiced or decided with what we are going to kick ... out from the 483 activities Friday night or stuffed with free food from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  all over campus. Living at East Campus, said basements are easily ... forgot dinner and are in fact pining for a cold drink, hot sandwich, or ... lifted, and this vacuum attachment moves in for the kill. There are

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  : 1) people are afraid of new things, 2) you can always find ... other metric of engagement that exists are completely meaningless. It was ... mean, where does one go when they realize they may have wasted a good

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  to rage, and in a place where most students are only here for four ... , of course, [annotation note="indeed, as i write this, there are another ... are already signs of life. People have, slowly but surely, began to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021