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• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  , clutching a handbag that contained an article for my Science Essay class. I ... still in the tunnel for five minutes. So, when it finally pulled into ... , including two girls who help supervise volunteers. They had us play a name

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  . The same staff that is responsible for admitting students is responsible for hosting Campus Preview Weekend. So once decisions are out, the ... admissions staff has their own portion of CPW to oversee. For the last few

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist ... colleagues attended. It was fun, crazy, and ridiculous all at the same time. I ... that we admitted. We're proud of you - for being who you are - and proud

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  junior fall (now). In the summer, for Elizabeth C. 13's Science Out Loud ... shows you where I work-- at the wonderful Whitehead Institute for ... metabolite is present below average, and red means it is accumulating above

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  I owe you an explanation for my absence (and you'll get WAY more ... : After my last final on December 20, I flew home to London for winter break. On January 2, I flew to DC for a huge astronomy conference. There, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  boxer shorts. And then he recognizes you. How's that for teacher ... morning, I felt a faint red soreness on my uvula, which can only mean that I ... homemade killer death robots or whatever open another bottle of Jolt Cola for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  , "Call for a good time." He showed up at the requested meeting place, and was whisked off for a day of exhilarating, platonic adventure ... ultimate altruistic troll, but I bring it to you for a half-reasonable reason

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  activities. Think about what the people you asked for recommendation letters ... your interviewer might say about what you’re like in person. For each ... be filled in with your essays. For each quality, especially sparse ones

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  story. Please take it as you will. Best of luck to you as you seek out the next step. (and for those that think I'm too verbose, please just ... I mean good for all of you and I'm not being trite or superficial. I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  application cats. Also, last night we discovered a new qualification for ... -- always a fun event), and various other shenanigans, I met up with Anna and the aforementioned Lucy to go for a drive. Driving by muscle memory led

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  Mccormick represents the culture, sense of community, and overall fun you ... seriously:  pay attention during REX.  Having fun at a dorm’s quirky event?  That event is probably a sneak peak into how the residents have fun with

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  nothing special

  

  Everyone is up late this weekend studying for finals. I'm immersing ... , it's Sunday. :-) It will be fun to spend the summer at MIT. Summer ... are that you can move into your fall room assignment for the summer. At

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  This year, for spring break my friend Yida and I decided to head to ... popular spring break destination for MIT students. We decided to visit ... some poutine for dinner, we got drinks at an Irish pub and watched the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  cpw at pika a continuing experiment in cooperative campus-previewing

  

  :         *what is forkapple? the best game ever. **the second-best game ever **tied for the second-best game ever ... Campus Preview Weekend starts tomorrow, and for pika, my cooperative

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  waiting for our meeting to start I sit on the long dark red couch and stare ... people haven’t noticed. To be fair, he’s a name rather than a face for ... Congress, now the US Representative for New Jersey’s 12th congressional

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Trick or Treat! Smashing pumpkins, and no I don't mean the band.

  

  my neck for staring up the whole time, but I still managed to have fun ... I begin this entry with a photo of the aftermath of one Saturday evening. Here, try this physics problem on for size. If I have a pumpkin

  • by Bryan
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while now, and it's traditional for people in my living group, floorpi, to field a team for puzzlehunts and work together for a weekend. i did work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  , and, for the most part, I have been[annotation note='I promise that a ... proximal development, in the sense that learning is best achieved when things ... horrible, not great. It was fine, for the most part, until two weeks ago

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? i^i = e^(-pi/2) Sorry for the lack of MIT ... I managed to need so much luggage for a 3-month trip to Germany. Anyway, check back tomorrow for some info on classes and/or a map of MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Registration Browser Issues Firefox isn't playing nicely with MyMIT...

  

  Hi folks, I just learned from the folks who support my.mit.edu that certain browsers (i.e. Firefox) may not play nicely with CPW registration ... browsers!) I'm so sorry for the inconvenience. -B

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2007