Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... I can't even begin to explain it. When I do get to MIT, I'm planning ... embrace that my state is one of the most-often bashed states in the country

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  of the most competitive public high schools in the city. Because she ... daughter. "I can find one of those cheap places to stay and I can spend the ... through a book of Sudoku puzzles. For as long as Cristen can remember, she

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  like that in [annotation note="the biggest city in Kazakhstan, where I ... school, I discovered that the school library was built in the shape of a ... teaching really began. I was in charge of teaching classes ranging from

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  weekend has in store for that set of guests. But before I do that here are ... check in occasionally so I'd suggest you pick an event where you can meet ... enjoy the weekend with us. Each one of us in the Admissions Office has a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  dorm was that I had a lot of friends there, especially in Chocolate City ... fluently; I can communicate pretty well in my dad’s regional language, Kafa ... of the semester, almost like a freshman all over again. I was in a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  dense, can exceed 10 pounds per square foot in weight. And because of a ... celebration, in excess it can be catastrophic. Millions of people are without ... other in history. In most of these places the power will not be restored

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  the cover, the pad of post-it's I carry with me at all times in case I ... years. It's essentially a write-up of the research I did in high school ... slowly. I'll work for it a couple of weeks at a time, usually in between

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  study is slowly but surely slipping away. I can't wait until all 1100+ of ... explore, I highly recommend it! Boston is one of the most lively cities I've ever been in; I spent my last day of CPW checking out some of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  while I work in my room! XD It's called - OWL CITY!!! I have Fireflies and ... with friends, not just in the sorority (I really should go to more of ... TEST? In terms of clubs outside of school - I joined LTI - the

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  needed a uhaul to bring it all back (0:53). We were buying 140 cans of ... everywhere (2:16). This dented a few of the cans and made a mess in the uhaul ... coated in a layer of butter which took fucking forever to clean. I had to

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  going anywhere. I remember sometimes pausing in the middle of doing ... play, I started adding fun to responsibility. I’ve turned in most of my ... people, I’ve “defroshed”. I’m starting to see cracks in the system I can

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Snowy Birthday Party the #IAParty2011 is just beginning

  

  Mural Status of Women Faculty in Science (P.S. I got this list from the ... beloved MIT in the past century and a half. There are a ton of activities ... have ten themes that display every aspect of life here. I was shocked at

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  home everywhere I go. I grew up in and just outside the bustling city of ... what I had written and photos I submitted, both so you can get a sense of ... . It has nothing to do with geography. In such a large city, I had always

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  begin thinking and planning in advance, which I respect and value (one of ... 've ever seen. Over my ten years of working in admissions, I've probably read ... ) I want to quote Mikey from his post announcing these prompts in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  times, or organize a pick-up game of Capture the Flag, or see if I can ... learned about in school. Later, I met The Snively and The Ben Jones at check-in, and walking down The Infinite Corridor, I saw The Admissions

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  . And I will never have to buy another pen or T-shirt for the rest of ... pumped up about going to schmooze with a bunch of companies who, I felt ... to go into tech - I'm interested in digital marketing and transmedia

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, United States. The event ... Whitney Biennial! I’ve wanted to go to the Whitney Museum of American Art for years, ever since I learned that they’re host to (almost) all of the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  world can freely attend. One of my colleagues sent me a notice about ... research in the context of current national and global events. For Fall 2020 ... available upon request. I've embedded a copy of the syllabus (PDF link) below

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  because I thought the elevator was cool. You can wave instead of pressing a ... mentioned in one of his linguistics classes. I've talked about reduplication ... spotting this sign in one of the bathrooms: I thought it was interesting

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  It's so nice to be graduated -- I can make lists of things that I've done and call them blog entries! Hooray! I know a lot of people are thinking about their fall schedules right now (I mean, a lot of freshmen

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006