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• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  Boston, so your money goes to a good cause. (Feel free to download my band ... working hard to finalize plans for the ~500 events we're going to cram into ... ), please do so ASAP! CPW is my favorite time of year, as I get to meet so

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  staying up after we all went to sleep to literally download a bunch of AI ... , aka undergrad research."]UROP,[/annotation] I took Intro to Deep ... the class started, it has kind of blown up due to all of the lectures

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  side note, really take the time to appreciate your parents while you ... year left before you have to say goodbye, but they'll be gone before you ... decided to tell you my ED story. Last year, around this same time, I was

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  . Thanks to the staff for putting this together and the students for being ... FPOPs are freshman pre-orientation programs, where you get to come to ... to know the other freshmen in your program. Most (all?) departments

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  (supposed to be) studying for a 9.24 (Diseases of the Nervous System) test ... really feeling all that enthusiastic about studying. Plus, I had to go back to lab tonight at 7:30 to change the media on my COS cells... and if

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  Since everyone seems to have Olympic fever these days (Michael Phelps ... likely to be in the Science Olympiad or the International Math Olympiad ... representing 8 different countries have competed in 27 Olympic Games in 9

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  , face possible criticism, to realize your full potential. In my case, I sent my very first email to dormspam, a mailing list that reaches most of the undergrad population, making myself vulnerable to starting a flame

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  : Picture this headline: Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus ... that I wanted to go MIT even over the other prestigious institutions I'd been accepted to (awesome engineering schools in NYC, Pittsburgh, and

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  course, i take a top bunk, and immediately try to piece together my ... family/friends aspect and making new friends =)" Moving away to college for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  , a YouTube series meant to bridge the student-faculty divide by showing ... fascinating. Watch them below! I wanted to blog about TwT for a while, and finally got the opportunity to connect with the team when my neighbor, Tho T

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  friends, like going to Celtics games, exploring a new part of Beacon Hill ... . Namely:  It’s my very last semester (still trying to wrap my head around this) I have already completed every requirement to graduate (except

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  's course, and hope to get lucky in the end. Let the games begin. ... Four years ago, I started to apply to colleges. Four years later, I ... 've just started to get exposed to interesting topics in bioengineering that

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  wet to the touch. I enjoy smaller get togethers with fun games and ... I like to tell myself that I've escaped my high school demons. That ... 't still make my heart beat at an uncomfortable rate and tie up my tongue to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  together and maybe write some new carols. mitBEEF is a club dedicated to ... Game Night Build a Dominion in Puerto Rico to prevent your Descent into ... . I even did my differential equations homework in close proximity to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  I rolled out of bed at 8:30am last Friday and raced to Pappalardo ... cuts and scratches littering my hands fueled my trek to campus. Today was the last chance I had to work on and impound my robot. It didn't work

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  want to reread Marilee's recent post. [But MIT is my dream school, I can't imagine being happy anywhere else!] [This doesn't apply to everyone, but ... attracted to MIT's campus culture, I've found these students often are also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  pre- high school days, skip down to Summer 13 (the numbers correspond to my age at the time). *It took me forever to write this sentence. Ideas on how to pluralize things like "June" and "July"? I had to stop myself

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  to make us feel better. However, there are some nice things about ... underclassmen! They spent hours and hours and days making us a Tetazoo card game ... reading their parts in French when it was their turn to read from the book

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make ... a steady flow of snacks that ranged from burritos to late-night "insomnia cookies" to breakfast bagels with half-and-half milk. Toss in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  together. There was going to be a fifty-fifty chance we'd be in the same ... that weekend, I sent an email to Baker Desk asking if I could pick it up, and they said their coronavirus policies didn't allow me to, even if I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020