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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  to prefrosh, welcoming them to our home. This is CPW. I already wrote ... incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this ... how I can help people, and I've had so many great ideas about how to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  'welcome to MIT' freshmen experience, began on Saturday. Today, Denzil Sikka ... their words. They'd like to write about why 'Going Greek' was the best ... ways I couldn't have imagined as a freshman, so I'm happy to share their

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  I had traveled to Maryland (where my mom now lives due to work) to ... telling me to look up. The moon, jupiter, and venus in a right triangle. Over Kresge. I hope you got to see this, it's a pretty incredible sight

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  other "artsy" things you might not expect engineering students to be ... groups on campus, specializing in everything from improv comedy to jazz music to ballroom dance. I bring this up because, last weekend, a friend

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... things to come from this group in terms of information is the international financial aid list [XLS] [PDF]. OACAC's Doug Thompson works hard to regularly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  "]Haikyuu!!.[/annotation] Hell, I'm listening to anime openings as I write this... Anime is such a ... with quarantine prompting my former weeb tendencies to resurface, I've started to think about how my relationship to it has changed. Guys, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  , preheated an oven to the wrong temperature in Fahrenheit but exactly the right ... suitcases, moved from pika into Random Hall, walked back to pika anyway, drank ... Google calendarism: [See legend at end of post to decode course numbers

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  weekend was my last ever cpw, so i decided to revisit some of the same ... minutes later were so perfect, and that was when i knew i wanted to join the ... , trying to create sounds as beautiful as the ones i heard back then and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

    Hi. Meet my Google Calendar, the metronome to which my life ... semester, and I'm going to explain my classes and how I spent my first week ... recruiters (seen: online platform to coordinate housing programs, 3D

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

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  three weeks leading up to that date poring over a complete set of ... much else to say about those dark, dark weeks. When you think about it ... and boundaries set for us as students. Instead, we are given autonomy to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  As April ends, and admitted students everywhere decide where to enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of ... Admissions. But what we mean by match - and what match means to you - isn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  structure. Or, to be more descriptive, geography and physical structure have a ... "normal" (though really, there's a limit to how normal anyone at MIT is ... relative to the general MIT population. How did this happen? There are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  It's December, which means it is time to (drumroll please)...   ... (cue airhorn noise)🎉🎉   As someone who loves to obsess over random, [annotation note = "Spotify Wrapped HATES to see me coming

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  -enjoyer, please take a moment to think of our beloved Milk as you drink your own ... return to Random Hall began slowly. First came those who lived in MIT ... to be back home.    But all is not well. We hadn’t been in the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  Laboratory for Chocoloate Science. According to their Wiki, LCS can be ... (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of chocolate on campus, and to bringing opportunitites for learning about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  : lived in. The hallways of MIT are alive. From well before 9:00 am to well ... [annotation note="MIT’s main entrance to the academic part of campus"]Lobby 7 ... to them before, but sometimes I’ll see someone else talking, and they

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  social. The pies were oh-so delicious. I want to share with you some ... event where makerspace mentors welded on digits of pi to a steel apparatus ... learn to spot weld 5 digits of pi, and mentors/staff can arc weld them

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2020 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live may the 4th be with you

  

  application. You will log in using the same email and password used to create your application account, and you can log in now to check your decision ... applied to transfer, and we have admitted 22. And as usual, we are very

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  was a working adult, living the 9 to 5, subconsciously looking forward to the paycheck every other friday. [annotation note="the 9 to 5 i didn ... feeling of transferring income to a savings account. by august i grew to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Mailings & Comms

  Open Thread: The Final Countdown a noble tradition of posting all day on the internet

  

  making it hard to blog right now. So, in order to not have to migrate n ... Charles in frustration over these EE bugs, this post is going to carry us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2018