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Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!
closest-to-perfect space here at MIT. P.S.: I may remember more in a ... . Exhilarating! Remember that scientific discovery you always wanted to discuss in ... “Essential Services” according to MIT Housing can be found here. Visit all 11 -
Blog / Public Service & Activism
On election day Practicing an applied civic education
also wrote: In the coming weeks, I hope we will remember this feeling of ... personal consequences in their daily lives. Whatever the outcome, I very much hope that in our interactions with one another, we can hold -
Blog / Admissions
Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!
now there's a winter storm advisory and I'm shivering in my winter ... reasonable fraction of the 600+ events to attend? I was definitely one of the more anxious pre-frosh two years ago, so I figured it might be helpful to -
Blog / Admissions
CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…
Freshly minted prefrosh! Three years ago I was in your comparatively ... without my future dark green double-canopy umbrella. I got lost in the ... . I even did my differential equations homework in close proximity to -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you
. You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... with some of the current bloggers in our messenger chat, I emailed the -
Blog / MIT Life
Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.
you checked your iPod, and you can't find your boarding pass. Ordinarily ... scared, if I could. But I'm just a ketchupless freshman in 7D getting her chair kicked by the four-year-old in 7F. What do I know? -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Being First is Important There can be many firsts
in an entry. We work hard to find pictures for you guys, and then we have to resize, upload, and link them in. I know I would appreciate it a lot if you would write the names of what's in these pictures down and -
Blog / Admissions
Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…
testing date might be able to reach us in time, but I've been told recently ... This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal about deadlines. Rather than give you my own "don't panic" advice, I -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.
As I write this, droves of MIT students, sharply dressed in suits ... Agency (CIA) iRobot Biogen Idec Bose Goldman Sachs Veolia Water ... Kinsey & Company Microsoft ...and that's just a sampling. When I was -
Blog / Personal Travel
welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post
it was the one I could relate to the most. In ninth grade, my dream ... . I had some romantic notion that my life would kickstart if I lived in ... ceremony was held at Carnegie Hall. In a truly foolish moment, I only packed -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!
, so I can start testing my projections, which will be on the walls in ... familiar with the runway route and how to walk in sync at 115 BPM. I ... Over the past three years, I’ve been on the organizing board for MIT -
Blog / Athletics
Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)
do some aerial stunts (I had no idea you could do loops in a Cub!) and ... Castle in the Air, and the ever-shifting cloud castle.) The one plane I ... production mechanisms. (I'm a physics nerd; not gonna apologize for that -
Blog / About Decisions
I have SMASHING news!
on the old boat. In fact she was rather demanding, although I must say ... rummaging about in the archives of the Bodleian I had found an old map of ... paintings I have ever seen, complete with ancient inscriptions in a mysterious -
Blog / Academics & Research
Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP
-http://web.mit.edu/glasslab/sales_labsales.html) Luckily, my suite-mate Evie got in this class -can't wait to see what she ... my first IAP – which I’ll surely blog about in the coming weeks. • P ... to rush in between; plus I just found out p-sets for that class are due -
FAQ / International applicants
Do application materials have to be in English?
All application materials must be in English. You may have a professional service or a teacher in your school complete the translation, but you can't translate the material yourself. If your teacher translates -
Blog / Academics & Research
Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on
, and I figured I might as well try too. Since I knew I'd love to work in ... that I wanted to try and do a minor in course 20. I figured I'd start ... very slippery slope to go down. Every week, I'd spend 5 hours in lecture -
Blog / Events
My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.
my dorm just in time for the big day. I dug around in my closet for the ... -less gloves...I even dyed my hair...and I was totally in character. I basically ... So a few days before Halloween I asked you all what I should be for -
Blog / MIT Life
MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.
Resource Development." Gotta go, I'm in the Student Center and I can ... chain of links and tweets that eventually ended up in my inbox which I ... featured in the blog post "Stephen, I'm Putting You On Notice!" Jeff -
Blog / Announcements
We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well
I am writing to announce that, due to the ongoing pandemic, our ... year's application cycle. In simple terms, here's what this means for ... -year applicants applying in fall 2021, or transfer applicants applying in either
