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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  ? I know that it gets confusing with the over 200 events listed on the ... event you want to attend or star each event for every day on your phone so ... also have MIT Medical right here on campus, which has a walk-in urgent

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  homes across the world working on just about anything. MIT alums can work ... contributions to the place you are working at. (For more on getting the most out ... —the pressure is always on to glean as much wisdom and learn as many lessons as

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  Secret Santa gift exchange. Each resident spends ~$20-$30 on some number of ... this button I pinned the button on my backpack. Last week, I flew back ... on my coat to leave and squashed the toy, which blurted out (very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  that I mentioned Joe Biden. It was pretty early on during my freshman ... you pset? Are you keeping on top of deadlines? To me, Archit was always ... something of that nature. High on my list of favorite questions I've ever

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  your rank list because if you do not match with any school on November 30 ... late interviews on a case-by-case basis. Completing an interview can be ... Regular Action pool. Q: Why hasn’t my Questbridge application shown up on

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  has been so surreal watching the '16s arrive on campus and thinking ... I'll be an admissions blogger, and so on. I promise - like, for real ... curriculum for this (and the other classes) on OCW if you're interested in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  his research “has centered on the application of theoretical particle ... , though, is that he designed and teaches an undergraduate class on the Early ... again the next week for a more complete discussion on the topic, so that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  privacy on networked social intermediaries. When I came to MIT Admissions, I frankly thought it would be a short stopover on my way to law school. I was ... years long, but, because I'd already taken a few classes and started on my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  having sat on countless committees, that we simply don’t care if your ... Foundation’s book on legacy admissions. That chapter doesn’t actually contain ... have learned from Mr. Shadowen about the sources he relied on for this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  staring wide-eyed with smiles plastered on their face being carted from free ... he actually swung back and forth continously! Meanwhile on the other ... hacks during CPW, if not my time here, was the one pulled on building 54

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  this. Or this. Sometimes MIT feels like one intense workout on a ... on your face or completely screw up and end up tearing apart the ... changes to walk, or taking in the occasionally beautiful weather on the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  overarching politics, although the former is on a grander scale. Turns out one ... of the arts scholars on the trip had, and gave us a synopsis during the ... in return gifts him with her magic horse. Siegfriend then goes off on a

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  students struggling to graduate on time for the dumbest possible reasons ... open problems as extra credit on problem sets, so it's nice that ours are ... -IOI freshman on my hall. Small world! 21M.380: Recording Techniques and Audio

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  could try on panniers, which are undergarments worn in the 18th century ... a poster pasted on the Department of pathology’s notice board about her talk on aneuploidy, I just had to go. Firstly, I just learnt about

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  , especially since the professor wrote “Yes, it’s ICE” on the top of the board on ... bunker” or “the dungeon,” as she worked on ICE. Each weekly pset built upon ... days, so this will probably be my chance to catch up on sleep and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  expended on these was negligible compared to most of the other items on this ... with web development and better coding practices. On Friday night, I set ... think I might have accidentally become a tea/coffee connoisseur. I was on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  Guest post today from Mark F. '15, who was working on this essay for ... in a wood cabin. As the raindrops patter on the window, you seek ... Drenched If you are reading this, you are lost on the path to MIT. Your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  year. Since then, Prof. Maier's book had gone on to win: "10 Best ... putting the finishing touches on her book when I took her class Spring 2010 ... so well after working with her on Tuesday and Thursday mornings for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  have to rely on my kitchen for dinner, not a dining hall; I have to wake ... terrifying. For almost five years of my life I had been set on this one path ... (“with a focus on Biology,” I said, since I’m course XB) could do for each

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  This guest post on LGBT life at MIT comes to us from Cory Hernandez ... plan on staying for the foreseeable future. Though it was fairly easy ... took on the arduous task to redo the guide, and the survey that yields

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011