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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  to offer some tips about how you can get the most of your time on ... are welcome to attend either of these programs on the hows, whys and ... determined, when your supplemental forms are due, how to pay your balance, how

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  but no one knows it yet. The important thing is to know how to recognize ... turned 25. It's an interstitial age. I'm halfway to what is called "middle ... expectancy. I'm out of college myself, but people I went to school with are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  didn't know how to respond. My mom pulled me out of school after that ... school. Funny how things change. In the end, I ultimately chose not to go ... principal's office. "I hear you're threatening to commit suicide. Camille, do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Embracing the Penguin Snowboarding Trip ft. Jayden

  

  Thrones and 2. somehow managing to traverse what feels like a tundra of a ... forehead has known since you were a child in addition to the freezing weather. So what better way to embrace both of these downsides than to go

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 31, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  come. But talking to these groups got me excited again, like how so many ... that; it's very difficult to learn new music over Zoom and there were a ... are trying to get back on our game, fulfill our club mandate, and have

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  -house activity: I have to “cook” some days. You’ll be surprised how much one can ... minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus chugs through the residential areas, stopping at every block to let out tired adults. It’s a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  , journalists, tech bloggers, and fellow student entrepreneurs. I listened to CEOs ... to have attended Disrupt and to have made new friendships in the startup community from cities all over the US. Getting to Disrupt was quite

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  standing back and letting them figure out how to work with each other though ... country and the world. They all come to MIT, stay in Simmons hall, and get paired with a mentor in the Boston area to do an original scientific

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  from any class, and I don't have any clever terms to describe how I ... post about how you go from that flowchart to a circuit, and then to an ... And I'm back! I'm determined to make up for not posting at all in the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1

  

  Rhinoceros, learning how to use AutoCAD took a bit of time. Eventually I ... 4.500, Intro to Design Computing, my favorite class this semester, is ... involved using CAD software to design 2d and 3d objects, and then laser

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 27, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  fairly accurate graph, if it referred to dogs) just look at how adorable ... Are you looking for true love at MIT?  Are you not willing to leave your dorm room or talk to anyone in real life?  Then this latest MIT

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  know how to do this, but why is this important?! And why should I care ... 've realized how much I love it. <3 Every algorithm we've learned in the class is so incredibly relevant to daily life. (warning: i'm about to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  I have to relearn how to learn, in a lot of ways. I am grateful that ... and I am excited to see how it intersects with my coursework at MIT, my ... already tell that this semester is going to be very different from anything

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  also how they choose to frame that. The project made me notice the things ... believe me when I tell them how ridiculous it looks. The stairs to Senior ... on campus were doing the same thing with the same purpose: to take part

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  's weird to realize how easily you can immerse yourself in something, and not even realize how strikingly different it is from what you consider normal ... Adelaide and when I told her, "Hey, I'm about to get to Mass Ave, I'm at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  insight into how you all might be feeling right now - how, to be perfectly ... wherever you finally find yourself for college, whether that happens to be ... directly ahead of you. I know many of you find it hard to picture yourselves

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  actually a very good case for an entry with the title "How to do everything ... in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... do not do justice to how Clay-obsessed some Claymates are. I don ... .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  over the last twenty years, using Google Maps to see how far away common ... care about how long it takes you to drive to get a Crunchwrap Supreme ... . TLDR; if you’re wondering, “Does knowing how to drive a tractor or

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  lighting to show how beautiful the cross-section was. but like, why was i ... how to write your college essays, but you could also consider the ... -exaggeration i make no claims to know how much time AOs actually read their

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024