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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  balance, how to find on-campus student employment, and how your online ... Saturday morning, a panel of current MIT parents will be on hand to share ... Headquarters/check-in. It's a good place to relax, and to meet other parents. It

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

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a ... LGBTQ community, and with “food at MIT”  just to name a few. This last ... one of my MITFAC emails, I was warmly invited to a free sustainable

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  place so far, which is okay because I'm a host and not obligated to be ... with an "Imma let you finish!" and a transition to Kanye West ... 's Leadership Brunch, I got a chance to speak with some of the female admits to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  . A brave few will not even be able to visit until they set foot on ... very lucky to find out that my high school sponsors college trips for ... first door to the right is a men's bathroom. My friends Steven and Brendan

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  email finds you well, even though it's a little random. You emailed me 3 ... story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done ... , we always say to be true: Turning away so many kind, generous, super

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real ... Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult ... mood lately and want to do nothing but lie on a beach reading all day for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  find that I am usually a bit too busy to go to Haymarket. I also don ... were a bit harder. The main campus buildings are easy to remember because ... grad dorms are pretty easy for me to forget. Participate in a UROP… or

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  orientation, every freshman receives a list of 101 things to do before they ... when they graduate to use as a reminiscing tool, or (c) lose immediately ... easy thing to do in the two weeks between finals and graduation, take a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  Snively! So, you want a fun activity to blog about (since we all know a good ... was likely to empty out during Spring Break so a pillow fight could help ... Snively?" So much for pretending to be a prefrosh. It turns out that the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  My Head [annotation note="Right now I plan to keep finding music to go ... . Fact: Learning is a process, not a competition, and I’m excited to be ... way that I related to quite a bit: she personified imposter syndrome as

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  think through them is like trying to find a needle in a…um…place with lots ... outside, a cup held to his chest. In response to my jumping in fright and ... —so to speak—came simply enough. I sat down somewhere to write a 3-hour

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  wherein you now need to find something else to do besides psets. For example ... shoes looked a little lonely and abandoned that morning, so I went back to ... sucks to stop, become almost sedentary, and then get back into it after a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  were on crutches for weeks, thanks to a broken big toe. Senior year ... your forehead, you approach a lifeguard and announce that you are here to ... 's possible to arrange to take the test at a different time. "Try going to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  people took to find it. Our friend found it in less than a week. But alas ... responded to a Craigslist personal ad which bore only a single coy statement ... , culminating in skydiving. Needless to say, he had a good time. This story has

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  it's absolutely possible to find the right one for you (mine is ... fits you. (That's a pretty sweet thing that's unique to MIT - at the end ... , and pick someone to live with. It's a pretty flexible system, unless you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  add money to a TechCash account and whenever your ID is swiped anywhere ... not produce a profitable venture. To encourage students to eat at the ... to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars a year. Unsurprisingly

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  's because I spent a lot of time during the fall just trying to find my feet ... hate to bug you with a blog-related question, but you seem to be the best person to ask. I'm considering applying to be a blogger, but I'm concerned

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  , imagine a different world, and then find a way to get there. You may find ... 's admirable, in a way, to declare this the meaning of life. The world faces many ... , measurable impact on the world is slim to none, but each of us must have a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer before my senior year of college, I wanted to be a doctor. Are these two ... was a Doogie Howser fan. I used to want to save lives by performing

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  , are you even old enough to go to a bar?” (“Of course! barely.”) My first month-and-a-bit was spent building a custom charting package to ... weeks in, we released the first iteration of the software as a tool to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012