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• 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 / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  time we also just go get food together or go to the movies, but all in ... ). So just in case you don't want to watch the entire video here are a few ... talk about them in class. As with most CI-H classes, we were required to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  some pretty awesome classes and extra-curriculars to participate in. (If ... see how that applies. But it IS possible to balance it all, and in fact ... in all the things that don't change from week to week. Like, say, class

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  do it in-person this week! so how did we get here, anyways? Last ... model of schizophrenia Transfect neurons in their intestines to respond ... -expand into what I wanted to do in the first place, so I'm very happy about this

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  is strange in a different way; living in EC, you get to see so many ... bubble - it can be easy to get caught up in whatever role you've taken on ... settles in EC gets flaming pink hair, nor are we all engaged in “intense

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  (shocker, I know). This IAP, I'm getting back to reading in two ways: trying ... 's honestly a bonus (living in EC means I really don't get much unintentional ... cook more than I would normally have time to do! In addition to my usual

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  in my head, as I type this. It's soothing to step through a routine ... usual routines with reckless abandon in a desperate attempt to hold too ... or her performance to yours, because we're all obsessed with knowing in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• 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 / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  in theory flexible, but in practice, it's easier to align myself with ... myself, so if i don't get invited to anything, i stay at home and sleep ... . getting asked questions on slack. having to put out bugs as they come up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  could to get a better look at was was so alluring a distraction in the ... As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... of this squeeze I had left in front of me: Needless to say, caving

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• 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 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 / 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 / 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
• 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

  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