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• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  needed to do were to buy a map, enlist the help of a local, and marry Amber ... the fudge, the fat young man ahead of us in line noted that it was ... fudge without a knife. Indeed, the power is ours! Of course, if my UROP

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  officer in the month of April, naturally, I was at still at work. I was ... for a living. And yes, turning down applications is a huge part of the job. However, when I think of the colleagues I work with on a daily

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  defined by its discontinuities. The first half of the year was spent trying not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The second half of the year I was thrust into a new, thriving, churning

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  don’t think majors matter,” I responded, with the overconfidence of any ... take the most of.” “That probably won’t work,” the teacher said. I ... student here knew the name of every course.  He said, “What’s that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  With several of the core General Institute Requirements out of the way, sophomore year was really the dawn of my computer science life at ... ’t help but feel the creeping approach of “not-enough"ness. As career fair

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  adjacent to beauty, but beauty does not give others the feeling of an elastic ... about the kind of beauty that arose from symmetry, from clear skin or a ... ’s overused, I think, to the point of meaninglessness. I don’t want my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  for the weekend: Parent events: Parents have been a part of Campus ... parent event offerings based on feedback, requests, and questions. Some of ... : Friday afternoon at 2pm, there will be a panel of the top student life

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  required standardized tests. There are a number of options to fulfill the ... of the United States, India and China are our largest applicant ... either pay the application fee of US$65 or obtain a fee waiver. Fee waivers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  letters of the [annotation note="in case you are wondering, the best letter ... am a native speaker, I don’t explicitly know a lot of the rules so it ... production of a musical  I went with Silu S. ’24 to watch Six at the Emerson

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  was 8, and drawings along the margins of all of my notes. I learned how ... ="as in, drawing a line produces a line at the tip of my pencil, and not a ... the sense of different materials—I most often used one that was hard and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  vast majority of people are safe to be around in the vast majority of situations the problem with being suspicious of everyone is that interacting ... great time and making a lot of friends. or as another example, one of the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  taking some of these classes in the future, whether on OCW or at MIT ... , and how I look at the world. 6.172 taught me a lot of technical things ... what the magic is at every level. Besides setting one up for plenty of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  , I still had a blast; so, regardless of weather, get ready for the most ... ;-) Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule #0 ... talking to the potential students. Rule #2.5: Caffeine. Courtesy of Snively

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  resident of [annotation note="third floor of the east parallel of the dorm ... ="second floor of the west parallel of East Campus"]Putz[/annotation] swap rooms ... immerse themselves in the habits and cultures of their host hall and send

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  out of every 6 applicants. In one of the Oscar-nominated short films I ... 're not. (This can be applied to all of the other crazy schools that also ... nghi wrote, "can you write about the new management minor offered at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  celebrate! If not, I hope this blog, the same virtual mug of tea, and a ... angsty kid back then. I think the most common piece of college app ... and stay clear of the clutches of procrastination.  Well… I did start

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  By Ming Lu The Thursday morning of CPW, I woke up bright and early ... , taking the same train. Here’s a picture of the six of us: The train took around five hours to reach South Station in Boston, but the six of us

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  freshman lecture size of 400? One of the quintessential features of American ... intimidating as well. Not in the number of people. But because of how I ... beneficial to me for the most part. So during the summer before MIT, one of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  almost forgot that I had pictures from the last few days of the semester to ... minds, right? OK. Yesterday was the first day of IAP. What am I doing ... decision to take the EMT class offerred through MIT Medical and MIT-EMS. This

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  Kuwait, is there any possibility of receiving the Admissions decision ... long time. I cant exactly remember the number of hours as the'd go in ... of my work there in the form of a letter of reference or is my noting

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005