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• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  , offer advice, joke around, and tell all of you, face to face, that if I ... on school nights, or having a constant stream of group chat messages ... Dear prefrosh, Today, Friday, April 17th, is the first day of

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  shades of brilliant, MIT handles grades. On a 0% – 100% scale? Maybe “A ... Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high school, namely, the ABCDF system, except with a few additions. Below is a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  lived in, my school, our church. Then, there was a network of our family ... life might have. MIT is different in a lot of ways from other schools ... hours, maybe. But as for this particular piece of the internet, I haven

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  exploring Boston more than I did the first few weeks of school ... haven't been able to read very often because of how busy the semester has ... with a friend I've known since freshman year of high school, and we went

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  back to school and got busy ;__; will finish (starting from the beginning ... If you are a college student, or even in high school, you may have found that your busy lifestyle leaves little time for reading for pleasure

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  you take advantage of what MIT has to offer, there are going to be ... whether you'll be able to take advantage of everything MIT has to offer for ... Okay, now for the next post addressing one of your requested topics

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  deluge of school came. (I was mildly successful). It was surreal coming ... School is back in session, and I know the question burning in the back of everyone's mind is "Chris, WHAT have you been doing?" (or

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  you know. But it's a busy week in my life, between classes, choir, marching band, career fair, thinking about grad school applications, marathon ... parties, a floor-sponsored trip to some island in the middle of Boston

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  cartoonist. My high school English teacher was a huge fan of Barry, and I knew ... Although it may not be as apparent as other aspects of MIT, the ... ! There are a ton of resources on campus for making and enjoying artwork

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  take 2-4 business days from the time of receipt to be processed and show ... (relatively small but still nonzero number of) Early Action applicants for whom we are still missing a component of their application. Typically we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the School of Science like?

  The six departments in the MIT School of Science are consistently ... ; Mathematics; and Physics. Members of our community study deep philosophical questions: What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy, which make up 95
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  fair amount of theater in high school, but I had no idea what to expect ... ’s early precursor to films like The Matrix and Tron, World of Wires offers ... [by Emily LaVerriere '15] First of all, I need to second Miren

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  and stored the results on Google Sheets. Out of the 45 schools listed, I ... and Hult Intl Business School Boston into tight spaces. It isn't really ... evolutionarily related to each other? Of course not. If you said yes, then you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  professor of Psychology at the other Cambridge school. A lot of events in ... friend Steve '11 (freshman ex-roommate) was reminded of the story of Tim ... I thought it was really a good story, and maybe some of you would

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  'll be doing a lot of small, bite-size blog posts! So how was sophomore ... lot of new people. And when I look at my experience last year overall ... ? So you may have heard of x-terms, which is a new thing that is starting

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  writing, "Anon -- MIT is probably one of the most gay-friendly schools I ... most of the schools I was considering. But still, I had an inkling I ... , I decided not to choose one of the more "well-rounded" schools I had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  , George, gets here in 6 hours, at 4:50 AM. Usually I offer to come out to ... can begin. Of course, all 483 or whatever events that people have at CPW are awesome. All of them. Here are some especially awesome ones that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  assembled a mailing list of faculty, grad students, undergraduates, and more. My aim was simple: to organize a dinner consisting solely of MIT undergraduates with my last name. Through ~careful analysis~ of the cuisine in the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  going to a large school where no one knew me or my business was a little ... myself to you. The ghosts of Uncle Labs and Beatriz have haunted me all ... radar (or I've created the perfect search terms to draw you here or one of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  business emails. Also, I (and probably most of the workforce) function best ... ’m currently moving more and more in the direction of grad school/research. And ... 1. Labels The number of double takes and comments I’ve gotten this

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016