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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  It is difficult for me to accept that the MIT Blogs are turning 10 ... made online as a prefrosh even before CPW, thanks to the new admissions ... for high school students to join -- we had to wait until May to get our

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  . That’s why we have CourseRoad – a website for planning what classes to ... workload. Satisfy all prerequisites for each taken class. To keep the ... like a pretty regular set of classes to take for a chemistry degree

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  upkeep, food (I'll get to that later), paying for our two cats, and buying ... . Enjoy. I'm off to study for 7.05. In response to not-so-recent posts by ... from having the kitchen stocked by a student elected to buy groceries to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  [annotation note="'I wanted to be a normal person for a bit,' is my go to ... Experiences to enjoy outside of this box. I also have some options for the way I ... I resorted back to work-as-a-coping-mechanism for the spring.  

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  ’ve heard can help a person fall asleep faster. Second, since I sleep next to ... ’s impossible to sleep though and great for pre-midterm naps. (Accidental seven ... walls of the box, exposing space for you to put things inside. If you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  [/annotation] so I was phone-less for a week or so and had to buy a new phone. 6 ... campus, which I am still very, very grateful for.  In addition to that ... up for the winter. If buying winter clothes poses a financial burden

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  , here is a list of Themed Online Distractors for MIT Decision Day: Pre ... ’s going to be ok by The Oatmeal An Invocation for Beginnings by ze frank ... fact. I hope you can find the best environment to await and process the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  financially feasible for students to pursue the degree. Social life is ... real research experience. For me, I always intended to MEng, because I ... -intensive course that I wasn’t eligible for, due to pre-reqs, until this fall. A

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  ? But apparently a website that failed to inspire respect for an ... think that website belonged to one of most elite schools in the country ... supposed to be afraid of a website that has black text on a white background

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  discussed. i have enough websites to make as personal projects slash projects for organizations to last a lifetime. but i get bored of making websites ... and i have nothing much to do. but with nothing to do, i'm getting kinda

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Novartis expects to have about 14 drugs in testing per year. Walking into ... Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical ... spiffy new building every time I walk to the supermarket or to Harvard and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application now available Apply now at MyMIT.

  

  Happy September! You can now log onto MyMIT to access the application for freshman admission to MIT. Your MyMIT page includes interview ... will read your application online; printed materials that are mailed to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  for school to contact them via Facebook. Others suggest that students prefer email for these sorts of inquiries, and would like for Spam U. to ... students we might like to speak with. The best way for MIT to achieve the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  At this point, the admission website must appear to be "all about CPW ... encourage them “do their own thing” and know that it's good for you to do the same. It’s the best way for them to figure out if they are comfortable

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  buying us tickets to a Clay Aiken concert on 8/28/05 --how I should take a ... Marathon on 4/17/06--be sure to check out Mitra's Blog for an entry on ... have been trying to make this a year of personal improvement. Just to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  recruiters (seen: online platform to coordinate housing programs, 3D ... /January deciding vaguely what classes to take, student "preregisters" for all the ... 'm currently registered for more classes than I'd like to take, so I might drop

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  grossly underpaid and need your donations (PayPal preferred) to buy space heaters and electric blankets for the coming winter. Although I'd love to ... 's probably also difficult for you to think about the world beyond MIT (don

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  made out to be. MIT will sponsor you for an exchange program AFTER you ... for the summer that can (but doesn't have to) be related to your ... sweet. What are you up to for the rest of the summer? I’m working on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  ,” according to its equestrian-friendly website. No horses did I see, but statues aplenty. I also learned how to focus a camera, for just about the first ... to my inner gourmand and shelled out $2.75 for a sandwich. Were I a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  my care. I'm really not sure how to account for this developing ... curiosity for the thing he loves, i.e. fruit, and the fact that he seems to just want to share it with the world, not for any endgame or goal, but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021