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• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  maintenance of weak ties has become, by design and audience, a social utility ... months, in the hope of generating some kind of useful conversation here in the blog comments. The MIT Admissions site was one of the first higher

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  to be offering this $200 rebate promotion on a wide selection of phones ... don't really have my finger on the pulse of American youth culture (and I'm not premed anyway), but my experience was that in high school, a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  puzzling at the end of eighth grade, but as high school dug its claws into me ... school teacher, encourage you, a cool reader of the MIT blogs, to go for it ... I know a lot of you are stressed. You have busy brains with rodent

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  Factoid of the Day: I've never paid for food from the MIT Student ... you know. By “you”, I especially mean “employees and proprietors of the ... consists of at least 40% actual humans, leaving an estimated 58% for spambots

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  to work on the design of the bin and later discovered the brilliant ... technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students are working ... composting bins and a low-cost biodigester under the guidance of an expert in

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  Masters of Engineering concurrently with finishing your bachelor's degree ... . Lately I’ve been designing the hardware and mechanical parts of diagnostic ... , how it’s always dark out after my last class of the day, that tells me

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  find myself and some degree of serenity. As much as I'm jealous of the ... I spent the last two weeks of IAP abroad. I had thought about ... places students in schools abroad to teach short courses

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  Filipino food to school because I couldn’t bear the embarrassment of having ... jungle-like terrain to go to school.  They combatted the struggles of ... Filipino food to school because I couldn’t bear the embarrassment of having

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  world am I? Two days ago I won a prime cut of meat by winning a game of musical chairs against a group of about 40 people (the majority of whom have their PhD). Yesterday I apprehensively put the equivalent of almost $450

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  understanding of and flexible with late documents from schools than with late ... The Office of Admissions is currently closed for the holidays, and is ... deadline fast approaching, I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Admitted Students

  

  This was the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute, and you are one of the very few applicants to whom we offered admission. Congratulations and welcome to the Class of 2015! Feel free to

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  school students), and Cascade (a five-weekend set of classes for high school students)."]It is one of many programs organized by ESP ... reflecting on how I've spent my time outside of class. Of the various

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  lot of moments at MIT that remind me of how different this school is ... The school year has begun again. I’m glad to report that some things ... ,[/annotation] the massive flurry of dormspams as clubs begin to campaign for

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  distributed at a swanky event at Top of the Hub, a very classy restaurant at the top of Boston's Prudential Tower. (In case anybody missed the implication, Top of the Hub is not somewhere students usually have the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  from some degree of "regression." there's something about going back to ... these days, feel as if they've lost a lot of time to the pandemic. the ... juniors experienced less than a year of it. that's why being on campus this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: P.S. I Love You THANK YOU LSC

  

  chat this: HELL. FUCKING. YES. For those of you who don't know me ... the second row of the theatre, but honestly not complaining, I could ... kind of what was going to happen, but it is SO MUCH BETTER watching the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  FIRST OF ALL: In case that you haven't thought of enough reasons to come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out ... anything to do, FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS IS GOING TO BE IN BOSTON ON APRIL 17

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  ' through the Stata Center, when out the corner of my eye, I saw this pretty little thing in front of me: Ain't No Rest for the Hungry. After taking ... fresh quinoa. There were at least five tables full of food and drinks. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  school only offered APUSH, so I went ahead and did AP Euro and AP World on ... streaming diagonally across the piazza, splashing rays of golden yellow onto ... squabbling over pieces of bread, the plaza is deserted except for an eccentric

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  foreign schools"][/annotation] started today— much to the dismay of my ... of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of ... from one crowded platform to the next— the amount of times I had dropped

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025