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• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  that you pursue things that interest and challenge you. These can be ... , volunteer work, music and theater performance, and religious activities. Furthermore, if your interests don't align with an organization and you pursue

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  fall out of the sky and WEBSIS doesn't let you pick your own grades, you ... sometimes this semester I wanted to throw my hands up and give up, but in my ... drink from that firehose and you get it done. I can say that this semester

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  scanning tunneling microscope that operates at very low temperatures and in ... they work. Vivek Venkatachalam, a Senior in Physics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has worked on this project for two and a half

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken Burrito for the Lab Rat’s Soul Because a personalized blog entry is just like five dollars.

  

  was a most busy and miserable day that can be summarized in one sentence ... Market in three weeks and the shelves of my formerly bomb ... beans, salsa, hot sauce, extra lettuce, and sometimes guacamole (if I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  Well, the last week and a half has been busy, to say the least. I ... the lab, participating in cheerleading recruitment and tryouts, and helping with Macgregor rush and in-house rush for my entry. Somehow I got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  ago, of course) and it was sunny, warm, and breezy, so I decided to bike ... great weather and explore for a couple minutes. By the way, it's sunny, warm, and breezy 9 months a year in Boston, just like in Southern

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  needed to do were to buy a map, enlist the help of a local, and marry Amber Brkich. A friendly janitor directed us to the subway station and we took an ... immediately with his hands anyway. As both Shana and I are conservationally

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  . Unfortunately, I got back from a 60 mile bike journey throughout Vermont and New ... myself doing entertaining things (and about twenty pictures of my friends ... started biking. Well, now my laptop is toast and I'm having immense

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  cross-register with Harvard undergraduate courses, because MIT and Harvard ... MIT's schedule and Harvard's schedule are pretty much the same (MIT and ... between MIT and Harvard, as Harvard is contemplating moving to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  anxiety, it also brings many events and traditions celebrating the ... the festivities that Mitra did, and the "MIT celebrity"-served midnight breakfast, starring President Susan Hockfield and Dean of Admissions Marilee

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  come to a close and I was trying out my shiny new label of "MIT student." I had just finished my FPOP, started making new friends, and decided ... remotely. I've heard your sadness, disappointment, and anxieties about this

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  it, I was just taking a shower. It came on quickly; I blinked, and then ... entire month’s worth of pain and exhaustion and fear came bubbling up ... entire life, and I was angry about all of it. I’m never angry. I took a box

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

    Avengers: Endgame opened the weekend before last, and with it ... in the MCU (and is from the Boston suburb of Sudbury), seemed to ... , including tributes to Batman, LOTR, and R2D2. If you're unfamiliar with the MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  mapping service and used a terrible one instead so I redid the map with ... psetting in as well, and the black markers indicate places that are limited access. Click on the name of a location on the sidebar to see pictures and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  CPW is a very exciting time and it's hard to believe that it ... ! Here is a small sampling of events in our dorm Next House and Other ... , artists, actors, weebs, gamers, bakers, builders, DnD(ers?), and so many

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  came back, and I wished city sounds would drown out their mating snaps. During the day, the sky here is a plain blue and the houses are beige. The ... showers the fences with a high-pressure hose, and it confuses me. Why clean

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2017 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  4th, and you should receive it seconds later through the magic of ... students applied to transfer, and we have admitted 24. And as usual, we are very excited about the students we have admitted, and often chagrined

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  , and subsequent soar into brilliant adulthood?). Who knows at this point? 41 minutes.   Soon writing season will be upon us. College and ... through this cold season, long and bleak like the emptiness of this blank i

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  4th, and you should receive it seconds later through the magic of ... students applied to transfer, and we have admitted 22. And as usual, we are very excited about the students we have admitted, and often chagrined

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  cpw at pika a continuing experiment in cooperative campus-previewing

  

  Campus Preview Weekend starts tomorrow, and for pika, my cooperative ... session, and late-night smoothies on Thursday Soapmaking, screen printing, hair dying, Italian dinner, forkapple*, shoeblade**, a tea party, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015