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• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  In light of interviews quickly approaching, I thought I’d do a post ... In our holistic application process, the interview is one aspect where ... helps if you have things in mind to talk about and can elaborate on your

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the ... , I know how frustrating that can be. (Funny story- NJ has about 5 or 6 ... , because how the hell should I know? I got in to my first choice school, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  this in a single semester. However, I can honestly say that it was the ... the product. You can see what that looks like in their demo video, where ... eyes closed for this part so I didn't really see it in action, but the

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  So I'm back in the US, and it's weird. The first thing I noticed as I ... can hold moisture, I'd totally forgotten about that!" It was quite a ... 's weird to realize how easily you can immerse yourself in something, and not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  One would think that after seven years in this office I would not be ... will. That said, it's important to check in occasionally so I'd suggest you pick an event where you can meet up with your student each day

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  "wet and not-so-hot." It's quite an experience to be in a place where the ... season, I (mistakenly, in hindsight) applied to 15 colleges. Out of the ... mountain hiking in a blank? how can you capture the brilliance of a sunrise

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  it’s MIT’s fly-in program where rising high school seniors learn about ... researched what the best place to study math was. “[MIT]’s where I’ll go,” she ... in,” she confessed, “until I got accepted to WISE.” Misconceptions

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  because, though I will always love and continue to practice photography, in ... of all religions were conducted in the church, which I found inspiring ... Black women graduated from MIT in 2022. I spend a lot of my time

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  ...but she won't have to do that anymore, now she can just go in the ... the meantime, they have this sign up. Can you imagine what I looked ... a construction project in the Infinite Corridor. Formerly the world

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  in a big hall with 4 long tables where I am served a three course meal ... (where I’m staying) and dines here regularly. He’s in this ... studying civil engineering. I’m participating in the Cambridge

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  -time vlogging/blogging influence StephenVlog, who I actually wrote about in my ... entertaining. Nor are these meant to be super entertaining. In fact, I kinda hope ... ! I'm still getting used to filming important things in my life, as I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  ). Where am I going with all this? Well, let's finish up with my other moment ... stage singing. In summary, I never did get to blog about the Winter Logs ... feel free to post your interpretations in the comments. I would highly

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  , what can I do ya for?” I drive to my favorite sight in all of Cambridge ... Take in the familiar sights, smells, and faces of your community. Can you bear to be without them? Can you imagine embarking on a journey in

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  . It has an extensive history (that I won’t go into but you can read ... more and more people filed in. At some point, I poked my head out to ... events in your undergraduate career where you get to see so many people in

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  On a weekday, I meet my friend Alberto H. ‘17, who I haven’t seen in ... who are all staying in the Hyatt. “Yeah,” he says, “and I might go to ... through our class discussion site and handed whatever I had in. I could use

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  . You can imagine how awesome Michael Xiang, a junior in Biology with ... , you can figure out the DNA coding for the receptor. Voila! His UROP in ... equipment. Mike helped to build a database called the "massome" where you can

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  broadcasting. I showed up at WMBR orientation in early September 2016, became a ... around long enough that the station [annotation note="I say this in a very ... at this ungodly hour while I was in the process of training to become

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  congregated in the garage where they were met by various alumni and affiliates ... in a 40 mph headwind. As a sprinter, I thought there was nothing worse ... Computer Science) and I were upset). When the bus was packed in the morning

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  Note: The following is adapted from an article I wrote for CMS.350 ... awesome people like Smyly, and I figured you might want to hear about him too :-) It's three in the morning and MIT's campus is, for once

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  'm at it again. :-o When I was a young one in kindergarten, I thought the ... . I want more school? Yes. Why you might ask? In my opinion, I ... bioengineering has been a good idea for me because I can take what I've learned and

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006