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• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  to ask how you're doing. I certainly can't speak for all of them since ... -or-less agreeing to let you do whatever it is you want, there's a style for every ... ), was a particularly important figure in my freshman year. I, at the time

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  it for free food and subsequently consuming it. I can only hope for ... official schedule, so I'm just going to tiptoe over the bounds of propriety a ... excited about CPW! There are far too many events for a single person to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  East Campus Rush 2014: RAW SCIENCE There shall be no entertainment or amusement in our courtyard, only roller coasters

  

  ! As you can see, it is a really exciting time of year for the denizens ... next week can be found in the Daily Confusion, which is actually just a ... working on over the past week. Some of these science experiments include a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come to MIT Get a free haircut!

  

  : There's actually a mailing list at Random Hall for people who are interested in learning to cut hair; anyone can email and ask for a cut, but ... I think she did a fabulous job. She started learning in the fall on

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  really cool and there is a special place in my heart for CubeSats because I ... -and-coming celebrities; for example, today I met Planet Labs, a start-up in San Francisco ... , backpacks...everything. I picked up a penlight from the SpaceX table and found

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  I am heartbroken to tell you that this morning we learned Gisel, a ... school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your ... , unfinished, knitting project was a [annotation note="I'm not actually sure if

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  office just a few feet down the infinite corridor. I enter with my morning coffee cup in hand, along with a horde of students and tourists, and I ... ;   It’s a magnificent lobby all on its own, but even better for the

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  298 Tickets. All for us

  

  A lot of 'lasts' happened this past week: - I turned in my last 5 ... , and I'm still not done with work. - I went to get an eye exam at a ... to my class council, 297 members of my class and I* got to watch it for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 20, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  “someone needs to get fractal161 on green building tetris someday” it's tetris two electric boogaloo

  

  group rehearsal for a piece from Hollow Knight: Silksong (it was Red ... Justin, better. He arranged Remix 10 from Rhythm Heaven Fever for VGO, and I got to do vocals and play the rubber chicken for it. I and the rest

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 15, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  people that I would be going to school with for four years. I also had a ... you try it. I can't say how many things I would have missed out on if I ... explore things that I had not seen before. So don't judge a book by it

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  were not at MIT. I backpacked through north India with a friend of mine ... from 50 years ago had still not reached most of the world's population. I ... Banerjee who run the MISTI-India program and told them that I was looking for

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  total! A lot of my friends ended up joining frats freshman year, so I thought it would be fun to show what Greek life is like for them. (You can ... connected – literally you can cross from one roof to the other – so it takes

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  I have seen much in these past weeks. Here is a small selection ... really warmed my heart at a time when I was quite nervous about my next ... Wednesday, I finished my last final at 3.30 pm. From 3.30 to 12.30 am, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.

  

  This past weekend, I went to dinner with a group of MIT and Johns ... mango juice in a turd mug. I ordered a House of Poo Poo variation of pineapple fried rice. It wasn't a large serving and tasted average, I'd say

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  you come from; for example, your family, clubs, school, community, city ... the situation? I can't emphasize this enough: make sure to review ... )  Also remember that all applicants can now apply for either

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• 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 / Hacks

  The Great Dome, Marriage Equality, and a Proud Hack Better yet, all three in one picture!

  

  For those of you who didn't notice, the Supreme Court of the United ... is visible from Boston across the river. MIT hackers have long used the Dome as a medium of art, commentary, and celebration. The Dome has been

  • by Joel G. '18
  • June 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  MIT alumni have been responsible for some of the most revolutionary inventions in the world. Radar, modern lithium-ion batteries, canned soup, and the spreadsheet are just some of them. Today I found out about a new

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  drawer was a copy of our newspaper from when Obama was elected. I lol ... and ready for a tough summer of hard (but enjoyable) work. I start ... college, you're doing it wrong. I had a double Wilbur with double cheese and

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  to do this for me. Later (in a silvery package) I received an official ... change from a D to a B, shhhhhh.) I'm excited to see how the institute ... week before I got into MIT early action, I was rejected as a Quest

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023