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• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  times i wonder whether the motivation is really just for the joy of ... with me. being alone on a bus for six hours isn't the best thing in the ... record for applying to internships is really bad. and maybe the more likely

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  long as that date is acceptable for the application deadline for which ... teacher is on the ball and sends in your recommendation in September, we ... pieces with formatted text, etc.), what you should do is submit the online

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  the best, best time. I even gathered the courage to apply for an Exec ... for being the best kiddos ever. ... immediately applied. I thought I would be somewhat qualified for the job now

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  toured the Colosseum and Forum for the low price of 20 Euros. Now before I ... first voyage of sorts was to find food which is probably one of the ... . And now for the pictures (and some commentary here and there

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  paid for, as I'll discuss more at the end of the post. There is some ... Anna's asked me to write for her blog. And, since this is Anna, there ... trips were for Chinese language (funded by the always-generous Global

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  ! While I'm excited for the summer, with a continuation of my January ... . For the past four months, I've been working with the MIT Design Lab to propose improvements to and new ideas for the metropolitan Paris subway

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  things im doing during break things im looking forward to doing

  

  out with the best Christmas decorations. This is perhaps better ... the first real snow we've seen this year, which made for a spectacularly ... of snowy [annotation note="the jury is still out of whether Westchester

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  applicants considered to be the best 'match' for that school. They generally ... children will be admitted to the best colleges for them, regardless of where ... and that may be true in the aggregate, but my direct experience is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  ,” “frustrating,” and “draining.” For some of us though, JLab is one of the best ... is a test-run for the workflow of a “full” experiment. For the intro ... 4-page paper. These are graded for completion! The format is hard the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  . My suitcase is unpacked-in fact I haven't even brought it down from the ... while watching the Discovery Channel (I was meant for MIT!) until my ... the most) at 10:30. Thinking there is no way on Earth that I'll wake up

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  times. "Is MIT really like CPW?" The answer is, yes and no. Yes, in the sense that, I believe, for the most part, the MIT culture is well conveyed ... highlight of the week was seeing Ben & Marilee rock out. This is the best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  Campus is directly on your left. On your right is building 66 (the pointy ... cabs when travelling alone. The T is not scary. In addition, if you’re on ... that the T is only an option if your plane arrives when the T is actually

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  'm working for the knife Recovery isn’t linear. Growth is a turbulent thing. I ... dinner at Pika for the first time. It was kind of cold, and I was tired ... on, but when the direct funding deadline passed and I had nothing in my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  problems is graded from 0-7 points, with partial credit given (on the above ... team members are tallied for a country team score. This year, the top ... international olympiads, and not just for the US but also international students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  style of a narrated Pokemon card game tournament, the short of it is that ... the graders and probably (hopefully) ended up getting LOL points for my ... , which most people recycle. (There the analogy ended.) Well, life is short

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / CPW

  Hottest ever CPW ouch global warming

  

  temperature scales and wow is the difference visible. The CPW weather machine is broken, but in the other direction, oops global warming. (And if you're wondering what the weather machine is, you should read my CPW history post

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge ... here is more expensive. I can take a day trip to New York City for the ... age is 18. You can read about it here, but the basic story is: Proposals

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Alison Burr, the GC at Loomis. I did my best to explain our selection ... 're looking for. So this was a great school visit, despite the lack of student ... habit. Part of it is the timing of the night meetings; another part is

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is Battlecode?

  intelligence. Student teams aim to write the best player program for the Battlecode real-time strategy game. This is a one-month hardcore coding skills ... The 6.9610 Battlecode programming competition is a unique challenge
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog Hostile takeover of Bryan's blog for the night.

  

  's blog for the day... Shaye: Are you sure this is legal? Yuan: Don ... the band lineup for this year. Yuan: Sweet! I hope Polski FIAT is on ... of the Bands is an event held every CPW where ten local bands come to

  • by Bryan
  • March 12, 2006