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• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  keep my finger on the MIT pulse and chase people around campus to get ... promise to serve you well in your quest to learn more about MIT. Let me ... 't satisfied to simply recreate our print materials in the online space. That

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  to get into the only theater in Boston showing Brokeback Mountain on ... Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... Carter '07, we were able to get into the theatre with enough time to find

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by police for getting too close to the ... school in the fall. Anyways, remember to reminisce, even in something that ... wasn't given a ticket to Commencement. So I went with my friend in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  interview; you know how to prioritize, triage, get stuff done. But it teaches ... think it is a lesson that many of the people who get admitted to MIT would ... different. That's all that I've been up to in this blink-of-an-eye of time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  . We all get to see MIT through your eyes as the wonderful, bizzarre, and ... : ~1,000! That means about 1 in 4 (or 5?) students wanted to host at ... + textbook store), it feels a lot better to get a custom MIT t-shirt for free

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  because it's hard to get your brain together when you're in panic mode. So ... extracurriculars, the negatives and the tragedies all add up to be, in a way ... them all away. I went to a new counselor in the morning who taught me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  much to say in this entry other than to give a brief update of how my ... , with medical school acceptances in hand, ready to begin the next chapter ... lab this past semester (and having to walk back to the dorm in the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  in this situation, MIT Admissions is willing to give an extension on ... the mid-5s, with the great teachers getting in the 6s and the, well, worse teachers getting 4s and below. So, you want to only have great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  of which has kept me incredibly busy. To put much of this in context, I ... old people do. So basically I had to edit this down a whole bunch in ... : it's actually possible to get full credit on something at MIT. Even if

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  that we are not offering you admission to MIT in the Department of Urban ... appreciate your interest in MIT and sincerely hope that you may be able to ... 've probably gotten in to some other schools! So what'll it be for me next year

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  yourselves. There is so much to do here, so much to get involved in, and so ... now that I went to an art school and spent most of my time in film ... she talks about her internship in China and how “it's never too late to

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  blinked. Processed. Blinked again. I get to just not come to school in the ... . In a car ride to my dad's place, he asked me "Why would you say shit ... long in too much detail. To this day, when I think back on it, I can

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  existed in my high school is defeated here, that I have no reason to avoid ... isn't like me. Not like me in the sense that had we gone to the same ... , my roommate needs me") to get out as fast as possible. I tried to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  decisions, to get an email back about a potential UROP, waiting for something ... my team can get back on the water again, and waiting to see if my ... "] Memes. Please put them in the comments section. Things To Do While You

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  get access to our own machine shop, laboratory, and lounge in the ... biggest building in the world by volume. It's perhaps difficult to visualize ... memory, in no particular order: We went to SpaceX, where the ceilings were

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  fastest way to get from Building 2 to E25? At the same time, too, there was ... make friends, and to participate in class events that wouldn’t come ... show you; 2) yes — go to the closet and get another roll and it will pop

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  to decide whether to stay in our current major, 21E Humanities and ... wrote Axes of Confusion. In the end, what let us decide to dedicate last ... opposed to other REST’s because of its applications in Computer Graphics and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  something that you see every day in Bavaria. Am I allowed to say transvestite in a blog? Anyway, it's good to see fans getting along. The motto of ... almost had to change into liederhosen in 45 seconds, but somebody with a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  self-study and proceeded to get 5's in all three subjects. For a long ... that I perceive science. Back in high school, I used to get by by ... really hard to even get a basic research position in a biology lab there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  some parties, I went to sleep around midnight in hope of getting a good ... Providence to Boston (I'm actually from San Diego, but our plane landed in ... decided to roam around the campus for an hour. Of course, I ended up in the

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008