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• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  ... ------------------------------------- Jasmine wrote, "how do you register for CPW? I can't find any information ... registration form for CPW?" You can register for CPW in your MyMIT Portal. Just ... in terms of balancing time b/w them and with my host at CPW? I know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  always wear these in Bavaria? Because they are kind of uncomfortable. I know this because one time, as Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, I ... something that you see every day in Bavaria. Am I allowed to say transvestite

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

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  setting. I wonder if I can buy a "Confident Teacher" costume off of Amazon ... for middle and high school. I have not been in a public school in almost ... literal. I've never been in a classroom where students would get up and walk

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  . I'm sitting in my room facing the EC courtyard, tapping my feet ... couldn't carry more in my hands, because I hadn't thought to bring some ... student has got to eat. In fact, all college students need to eat (hopefully

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I defer my enrollment?

  If you're admitted to MIT, you may defer enrollment for one or two years. After confirming your intent to enroll in MIT's first-year class ... at MIT to enroll in courses at another college or university.
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  transform me in ways that I never expected, expose me to people I never would ... On December 17, 2011* at 12:17pm EST**, I was accepted to MIT. After ... generally alarming everyone within a half-mile radius, I promptly posted a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  Street in historic Old Port. I caught lunch just a few steps away at Mim ... One of the great things about living in Boston is the close promixity ... weekend, I woke up early, packed some physics notes, and headed to Boston

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  operator, I take other people's answers and call them in, so I also get to ... headquarters. There's my laptop in the middle, where I watch what answers have ... 't have right answers to those! Anyway, I'm only posting just now, because

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  gaps in the blinds. I rolled over, and realized - to my delight - that I was back in my "own" bed. I half expected my sister to open the door ... GIRs, and I would never have to take another physics class in my life

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  So, being an incoming frosh, there's really not much I can talk about. Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in ... out some survey that came in one of the many folders and envelopes I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  have been cooking for a long time with food I buy from grocery stores ... ginger as you feel you can handle! Mix in a little cayenne pepper for an ... and shirts and ties! What am I not prepared for? Nowadays, most high

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  picturesque, and fun to play with (or in), it even can serve as a metaphor for life. (Who can argue with that?) And whenever I see those first flakes falling from the sky, I won't deny that I always took a certain pleasure in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  buy juice (the one flavor I’m not allergic to). We split up somewhere in ... you can see the wind in them before it hits you. 4:06 pm: I have desk ... Authority. 2:30 am: A layover in NYC in Port Authority. I buy some orange

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  him, no "Wayne Corp. makes my stuff, I just buy it", Tony Stark designs ...   Most of my entries center around things I've learned or experienced in my always interesting (if occasionally miserable) time trudging

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  here in Random. Pre Dorm Assignment Moments after I was admitted to MIT ... Gregor. And then February: McCormick. March: But what about Next?? In fact, I ... . In my efforts to research every single dorm possible, I ended up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  , why can't I?). Also that night, I found my bike... parked in the exact ... icy winds across the bridge can grab free tickets to select concerts. In ... . Why? I stock groceries for, like, nuclear winter... lots of canned goods

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for ... Jamaica with Rose '05 and Swapna '05), and I can't wait to lie on the beach ... whenever it can be fit in, so the spring and fall classes are equally

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  uncluttered to touch. That's how I feel about the new MIT admissions website. I can't write a blog post! I can't mar this clean, polished page with my ... blog about, so here I am. But switching website designs also means

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  're doing. 12:45pm – In which I decide to write a poem because I don’t feel ... , Right now, I think I shall sit here indefinitely. I can see the sailboats ... , And the warm glow of waning summer sun, I feel like I could sit in this

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  two flavors, I actually did buy in Canada! I went home for the summer ... In July 2018, in my application to be a blogger, I left a note at the ... flavors. In the US, you have like twenty. I am fully committed, when I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023