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• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  long showers. “Oh, I gotta remember to audition for a capella!” “I could ... could work with. MIT is a unique place, and it can’t be home for everyone ... comMIT, you need to to determine if the IHTFP life is a good fit for you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  decided to meet a day earlier (a Thursday, the only day that worked out for ... ’d already figured out what we wanted to build, a web-app for letting kids draw ... confident I would nail it tomorrow. Then I worked for a bit on my 6

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room ... top, and you take the elevator down). You would usually run for a team ... . Personally, I find this a lot more exciting than Mystery Hunt. I mean, there

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A Collection of Creative Questions A collage of some of my silliest assignments

  

  questions they ask for their assignments. So here's a short collage of some of ... I think a lot of MIT professors have a humorous side, and most of ... I thought this abbreviation of the word "Methods" was a very

  • by Richard O. '28
  • February 28, 2026
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  Eagle, Banana Republic, and Uniqlo—a gradient for different budgets. You ... piano and sax for his “college fund”; it is both a sad reminder of college ... year, but I hope they bring them back in the future for a perfect blend

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  , even just for a little bit – that calms me down. Just for fun, I’ve also ... at a major turning point for the protagonist, the movie ends up being a ... pestered by Katharine Hepburn and they search for a runaway pet leopard and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  Cormick, Simmons, Baker) 2) The option of signing up for a dining plan (everywhere ... what you paid for, you'll have to eat a certain number of meals in the ... pricey, so most students opt for shopping at Shaw's (about a 10-minute walk

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  surprise that frats have a bad rep for being gross. That's where tΞp work ... tired and not bulging enough for method 3 to work, and method 2 is a flop as well. I'm back at the tΞp work bench looking for a bigger flathead

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  's hunt that got the most solves. At A Loss For Words, a cute minimalist ... . And after spending a year writing for the hunt, I think it's all the ... ? Immediately after the wrap-up, people started a Discord server for people who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / CPW

  five wacky and wild weekends new hampshire? i hardly know her!

  

  Flags In April, ‘27s and ’28 were treated to [annotation note="$25 for a ... Saturday of the year. tl;dr i was on a bus for 5 hours and only rode two ... for prefrosh and undergrads alike, CPW is a monumental weekend every

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 14, 2026
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  transportation by myself was to get to a local university for my summer internship ... . I went to a comedy show and golfed for the first time. I went to the ... Somerville for the summer and spent a lot of time around Porter Square. I went

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  lobe piercings. For a while, I had wanted to get more piercings, but ... paperwork, and waited for around 20 minutes. We were assigned a super chill ... was only successful at keeping my piercings a secret for about two weeks

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  which is inherent in a recession (for example, like what happened during ... a return of $5000 in tax credit to individuals for the use of items ... calls for a growing recognition of the problem of increased inequality in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring break Q&A: Part 2 where I FINALLY answer the rest of your questions :'D

  

  already a big hurdle for me, if it wasn't for the fact that the professor ... myself working a day job in that general direction. So it made sense for me ... for a big name internship then go for it. In my honest opinion, no

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  first day of lab and I'm a bit nervous. 2.007 is well known for its chaos ... high." For several days I iterate and iterate on a design (nicknamed ... Below is one of the robots I built for 2.007, MIT's extremely popular

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  started to pick up, and I[annotation note="A longer blog for another time ... during late September, I made it a goal to make the most of autumn[annotation note="A goal that was quickly cut short because I got sick :("]by

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  Meetings for the better part of September. Here is a quick update of what I saw and who I met. Tucson, AZ (A.K.A. Wildcats & Mr. Rattlesnake ... for the warm welcome and cool Native American print t-shirt!) After a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  nation before you go there, especially in a language so well known for its ... are a lot different from parks in America. For example, there are a lot ... biologies, but not quite as good for studying anything larger than a cell. We

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  adjust to in-person MIT, classes for my major, a new dorm, mental health ... of teaching at MIT as well! I’ve been a TA for Single-Variable and ... ’ve been an LA (lab assistant) for 6.100A/B (Introductory Python) for 2

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  college. Not even for a bit! (I'm starting to think I'm always more homesick ... media studies students are thrown together for a semester to work in ... , the class would be flown to Istanbul for a week to present to the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014