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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  that they're important ideas to have in my toolkit of Answers To ... , a living group in New House. 2) To be perfectly honest, I don't know ... to be a supportive friend. I remember a conversation back in London

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man ... five-something am to squeeze an hour of writing in before school. I struggle to crawl out of bed now, but I’ll stay up late into any night to get

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  us in the Admissions Office the weekend is more about getting ready for ... same questions that students will. That said, it's important to check in ... so don’t be afraid to ask them about their experiences. In addition we

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  to not only get involved in things, but to get good. Don’t worry ... , they also get to learn from other students. In fact, my specific friend ... you get to MIT, you’ll have had about eighteen years (or less for

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  experience; I remember organizing folks in the kitchen, trying to get as much ... , I get back to Next and I just feel like I have nothing left in me. I ... in with the people who were going to serve it. As I went upstairs, I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  requirement in order to have friends. It's not a requirement in order to have the "college experience". In order to be fun at parties. I always hated ... is that you want to worry about, what you want to get out of this place

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  buttons that allow you to zoom in or out, get background information and ... achieve iCampus's goals, and if all goes well, they get funding to make ... the bike while motivating them to push themselves harder. "In one game

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  their "talk to people not from MIT" routines. It's funny, MIT is in a bubble in that, as an MIT student, you start to forget what the outside ... actually were given a 15 minute talk in the bus about how to behave while not

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  many amazing students are out there. As I said to one of my colleagues in ... working all the time, I'm going to get back to reading your folders. Have a ... admissions officers sat next to me at a college fair last week in Chicago

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  , I was comfortable with all of these tools, thanks in large part to the ... in 2.007 (in my opinion) is a document called "How To Build Your ... - Competition Day My hill climber robot scores enough points to seed me 2nd in the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  getting to the drive-in window where the lady says, "Here's your Big Mac ... means that you have to live in that dormitory for the year (unlike freshmen in other dorms, who get a period called Residence Exploration (REX

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  Wellness Coordinator in New Vassar offered us a variety of stress toys to get ... I want them to?" And in a way, MIT has helped me get through this. My ... I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  you bear to be without them? Can you imagine embarking on a journey in ... to my alma mater in only a matter of 45 minutes! It was this road that ... ever did get homesick in my apartment, I could rush home and eat amazing

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  . Get in your college applications, and now what? Well...now's the time to ... friends from high school to catch up over a solid In-N-Out burger, because ... in California before (exciting news!) flying out to Maryland over IAP

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Cross student going to M.I.T. in the Fall By Jarett Henshaw Published ... , Cornell, and Berkeley. He decided to go to college at M.I.T. in Boston. "The ... studying astrophysics at M.I.T. had to get him to explain exactly what that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  : thinking about this room makes me kinda sad. east campus is scheduled to get renovated next summer, and if that happens as planned, i won’t get to spend my ... the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  prom date who is a math teacher in rural Washington now and trying to get ... tripping over each other to get onto the page. Sometimes it is hard because ... situation in which obfuscation is to your advantage. You will frequently

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  kind of situation) is to make lots of plans, so I had ’em ready in spades ... I wanted to open my decision alone so we could get the argument out of ... ’t prerequisites to success. in the end, you’ll be yourself wherever you go. to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  last undergraduate summer, we wanted to outline what we’ve done in each ... , we were still focusing on adjusting to and getting used to college life ... 't really on either of our minds. And we were lucky enough to be in a position

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  information about it! Some of the pictures aren't working, but I'll try to get ... Google Last year during freshman fall, I made a couple of guides to random things on campus. I'd like to bring that back this year, along with a much

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019