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• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  Cambridge University students swap places for a year (or in my case, a ... other MIT students who had gone abroad made me really interested in the ... was up before them in the morning), my activities became more burdensome

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  Saw Franchise to baking cookies to video games—and in my case, to ... commenters and my occasional check-in to bemoan your exponential progress or ... in, coursing through your veins, clogging over your heart. The spray

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  Currently drinking: Odwalla Superfood Currently feeling: warm and cozy in the ... in the 3+ months I've been here. Being at MIT has really opened my eyes ... our friends in Fremont!), who came to Boston to hang out over break. On

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  I’m very lucky in that my family lives in central Pennsylvania, which ... travelling is stressful and twelve hours is a long time to spend in a room with ... stuff in the overhead compartment, then moved my bag to another

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... interview? A: You can find your interviewer's information by logging in to

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  electronics.  The Garment District is one of my new favorite places in Cambridge ... to help students in need of support, but I think it's important to ... you need to get any medicine!! 4) Anyone at MIT In all honestly, if I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  Danny B. '15 is an 8-Flex/6-3 major with aspirations in both fields ... of software to help MIT life in some way. Without much else to do, I ... at MIT last fall, I originally told everyone that I wanted to major in

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  Last weekend was crazy. Crazy good. So good, in fact, that I needed a ... employers, and my family. All of them believed in me, and told me I can do ... met a few of the friends, my entourage for the night, in front of the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  average confidence in their choices was 66%, but 96% of them ended up ... advice I'd received in high school about college decisions. I'll give it to you in the form of a short poem I found recently by Piet Hein

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  necessary arrangements to attend, and are not waiting, in typical MIT fashion ... get connected with the right undergrad host. In the same way that we ... use all of that information, to make the best matches possible. Keep in

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  things at MIT? Where to live is a subject that is frequently touched on in ... another perspective to the mix. I'm fortunate enough to live in a place I ... "hang out," as the kids say. I enjoy living in a place where we can have

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  obligations. In response, Sen. Cornyn (R-TX) dismissed the idea as "crazy talk ... whole semester. In the opening introduction to the book, Professor Maier compared the fervent discussions and debates that occurred in taverns and

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

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  Public Service Center to intern with a non-profit in Hawaii on the Big Island (Hawai’i County)*. I will be here (in Hilo, HI) for 2 months (June ... was created to local businesses gathering their interest in a venture

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  examples of things we've picked up off of reuse in the last two years ... weird freshmen Two queen size beds And a partridge in a pear tree ... up three freshmen, or a partridge in a pear tree. However, we did

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  awesome time to be in, at, and around MIT. There's all kinds of art ... MIT150 art around campus seems to be in white. Could we have had some ... in the blogs... stay tuned! *edit: while I was writing this post, a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  weekend via bus. We spent a lot of time singing off-key in Korean karaoke ... hall in the middle of the night... ...and frolicked in the snow, a phenomenon unheard of in the Bay Area during my lifetime excepting that one

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  , which would be 800 more than last year's 5,684. The increase in ... seen an increase in applications despite the fact that the number of high school graduates in this country has leveled off." [read more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  connection is made between your page and the user. Your page will appear in the ... my druthers I would just use the Share button. But we seem to be in a ... institutions towards preferred practices. Let me know what you think in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  ’t quite know what to expect when I arrived in Cambridge on Thursday. In fact ... . Really that could sum up my experience – in fact, all of that food was ... guide and decided to (try to) build a human pyramid in the middle of Lobby

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  's gonna be happy to be here or not. Their job is in some ways to look out ... for everyone. So in short, if you don't get in, don't worry. It doesn ... contrary, if you don't get in it's a good indication that this probably wasn

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010