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• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  blog. But there's one in particular I've kept turning over in my ... designed the new SoS website and forthcoming new mit.edu. I like working with Upstatement, and I think their new website for us will be very good. Indeed, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  camps - at every single camp I went to, I was housed in a dorm room that ... though I had prowled the East Campus website extensively and seen pictures ... college dorms didn’t fully hit me until I walked in for the first time. For

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  In 4 weeks, you will leave home for an academic journey of 4 years ... things I’ve found helpful. Pack: -- a memento for your shelf or wall ... sockets appear in the oddest places. -- a Twin XL sheet set, a towel, and a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  I can’t even sleep through the night? That night, I lay in bed ... to go home, but you can’t stay here. In truth, I’m one of the lucky ... in when there’s breaking news every few hours), but I went on anyway

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  scrapbook, and put all our sketches in the protective sleeves so that we can ... from the corners they’ve been sitting in for years. “Okay let’s donate ... / in Naruto. So sure, maybe it would make sense to have a theory about a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  undergrad in chemical engineering and I have a question that none of my ... would be cool. In that case, I guess the liquid metal part of his system ... According to my favorite website ever, StatCounter, somebody from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact ... applications in earnest. Here are some updates from the Admissions Office ... currently processing more than 10,000 documents which have all arrived in just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  am I? I'm Laura, and in my first entry ever, I introduced myself to the ... choice. After that I barely even remember. I know I'd be happy in any of ... that, but I believe Random came in around 5, right before or after

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  find much to be objectionable - it wasn't *that* long ago that I was in ... danger of hurting him/herself or others, I couldn't in good conscience ... A rising high school senior who is currently in a prestigious summer

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  of lifetime miles. Fact 3: I’ve been in an awful lot of airports. From Fact 3, I can tell you that SFO has pretty great food, IAD has a ... course I didn’t want to sacrifice a single hour in Taiwan, so I decided to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... foreigner who did not even speak the language. “I wanted to remedy this ... each other. How we did this without words is beyond me, but I will always

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  Engineering’s website because it has a neat background graphic that I wanted to ... figures legible. [annotation note="I wanted to embed the poster in this post ... in a poster that I still have hanging in my room today

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  I can't wait to write one of those class tier list blogs before I ... does either. Steve had a very distinctive style of lecturing that I can ... [/caption] I often joked that 6.115 in a nutshell was, "how do you make something

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  luckily I’d had my own disaster-semester in the spring, and we compared ... ’m blogging again! More people can have this experience!” So I’m here, freshly caffeinated (can you tell?), ready to bare all. I’m going class by class, show

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  vacation I've had in as long as I can remember - it went way too fast. After ... ... my bad. Meanwhile Mr. Prolific has logged 43 entries so far in 2007 - I ... 'll definitely have some openings in the fall and I'll post the application details

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  student at Caltech) was in town and going to be there. I like Anna, and with her being in Pasadena, I don't get to see her that often, so I figured I ... that I'd mistaken the date, and Anna was not in fact in town, but still

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  ! You can get connected with S^3 easily during their daily walk-in hours ... -hours resource can be until I accidentally studied for the wrong final exam last ... Activities Period (IAP) in January, during which students can take classes on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  Exploration for freshmen in the fall), and Bad Ideas Weekend. I associate rush burgers with my first time in the EC courtyard, when I dyed my hair in ... weekend. In previous years, I’ve been woken by everything from Fall Out Boy

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  ="attachment_50445" align="aligncenter" width="600"] i can make diagrams in paint ... solve puzzles and have fun. In a sense, then, Mystery Hunt can function as ... . Epsilon Theta has ET Phone In Answer, which I don’t know much about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  *Scene opens* I'm standing in front of a house with my family. MIT ... in less than a week. I was excited that I beat all the odds and that I ... was in San Francisco during my junior year spring break so I didn't get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017