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• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  CPW hosts This past week, my colleagues and I spent many, many hours ... expected for CPW, and a large portion of the campus hoping to serve as a host ... approporiate for him to censor himself when delivering his famous line from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Going for the Au An MIT alum will compete in Olympic skeleton.

  

  down a pure ice track head first at 80 miles per hour. Since Antaki lives ... , sailing, and, of course, UROP. Pat Antaki isn't the first MIT alum to go to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  invisible. In summary, here are the important things to take away from this ... took a bunch of classes at a local college, you're going to have to get ... , in each of these topics to choose from, but that's for a later entry

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  I'm going to start this out with a quick disclaimer: no, a double ... you happiest :D Okay. For me, a double major is how I've decided to navigate MIT and attempt to reconcile my diverse interests in both biological

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Bloggers of old have written about the "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate" list. See here, here, and here, for example. To summarize: during orientation, every freshman receives a list of 101 things to do before they

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  albums have to be two-hour long experimental projects you'd find on some ... in 2022, I challenged myself to listen to an album every day. I ... listening to music: looking for new songs/albums, actually listening to them

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  shoulders sag against the railing behind me and throw my backpack to the ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally ... , returning to my dorm, and sleeping, but a desire to commit to the events on my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  never quite materialized, I still got to experience Christmas in February ... work with at MIT these days. There's a lot to unpack here. (Indeed, I ... blog post about this class from a year ago if you want to see a more

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  Not gonna lie, my happy-to-sad ratio is a little sad-heavy at the ... days - and not my usual ten minutes - of moping, I've finally decided to take a different perspective on this problem. I'm going to see this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  of time to work at the lab -- I'm scheduled for 16 hours per week this ... In somewhat sharp contrast to previous terms, I'm taking only three ... . As a double-major, I've generally had to take between 60 and 75 units

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  th left much to be desired. I will elaborate on the details of “much” once I finish therapy. *Recently, someone I was talking to managed to ... , vernacular magic. Anyway, back to how much my week sucked. Three weeks, 13

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  experiences that stand out to me. I present to you a brief highlight of the ... Holmes, and had Popeyes. It took eight hours, but it was so worth it! I got ... ombre color that matched my winter jacket. It was also a relief to have my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  campus everyday on each hour.  Quite a few MIT students go each year to ... country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island, I didn't have much (any) exposure to the West Coast, and it was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  'm stuck on a deserted island of pre-afternoon hours with nary a soul to ... To be honest, my weekend mornings are probably less exciting than ... horizon. Dim Sum! If you're ever mind-numbingly bored enough to pop open a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  almost forgot that I had pictures from the last few days of the semester to ... files at the moment and I'm too lazy to really search for them, so I ... decision to take the EMT class offerred through MIT Medical and MIT-EMS. This

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  the "nerd culture" that MIT is known for, but it’s also tradition to ... 't know about. So, I went around campus to get the scoop on how students and ... admissions decisions to applicants, but I was wondering if students on campus

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  sparkling blanket of freshly fallen snow. Even if motion is important to these ... with the colors of a tree: from green, to orange, to white, to pink, and back to green. Even past elementary school, in fact--my high school

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  that are going to happen, see below. Those posters are eye ... upcoming thesis defenses. Those posters have a kind of soul to them ... a computer moving text boxes around and sending things to front

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  my time on weekday nights has been dedicated to studying scientific ... -and-coding heaving schedules I’m used to. In a way, it’s really nice—I’m being regularly exposed to challenging and cutting edge ideas and being asked to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  when it came to academics. Throughout high school, you see, I was taught to learn for the test. For an AP. For a final. The singular goal was to pass. And this was good enough for high school. This was enough to get

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020