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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  those entries. Instead, I want to focus on something much more grandiose ... poll on Doonesbury.com asking readers where Alex should go to college. As nerds procrastinating psets are want to do, MIT students hacked the poll

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  About a week and a half ago, I arrived at Logan airport to start this ... commented, “Oh, MIT. My siblings went there,” and proceeded to talk to us ... into a metal detector, and used on an overturned beach to find coins with

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  , including how to make it more accessible for the students who attend. One ... awesomeness is how to keep track of it all! In the past, we've given our CPW ... 25% to the undergraduate population for the weekend they're here. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  Office to the Undergraduate Advising & Academic Programming (UAAP) office ... fewer questions about admission, we encourage you to start reading and ... folks are super-excited to help answer your questions as you transition to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  School! The very first session I went to was "How to tell someone something they'd rather not hear." We started with the example of how to tell ... went to Flirting 101, because I could. I mean, how can you not? All of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  , I just think it's pretty cool how I get to live with a whole bunch of ... My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people ... whatever random topic came to mind, funny quotes taken out of context

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write ... art junkies, From stop and smell the flowers to imagine the ... ’t have much exposure to poetry. The poems I’d read (mostly a few

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  , shameful tale only to communicate how good these ribs are. They will make ... , do you know how to make ribs?” Now pause and try to help me understand ... scheduling app. OK, BBQ at Burton Connor. Walk out of Kresge. Have to pass

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  much." "You have too many jobs." "Rachel, just go to sleep!" "Is it ... ." So I took this all into consideration, and I have come to the conclusion that I want to start eating healthy and keeping track of what I am

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  notifications and i didn't know how to respond, so i didn't open the texts for a ... started thinking about how i have to take 6.009/6.1010 (fundamentals of ... -cambridge to pick up a desk that jeff bought from someone for $10. it's a nice

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend

  

  CPW IS ABOUT TO BEGIN and it's going to be AWESOME. It snowed today...but the snow is now safely out of the way and hopefully the MIT weather ... 'll try to get back to you ASAP! In the meantime...get pumped.

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism A day in the life. In full color. =)

  

  . Then I went here (because it was nice out) to read this and then here just to visit (because I heard it was cool) and then to a meeting for this and then here to study for this with other people from here

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 3, 2005
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide CSS Profile waivers?

  Some students of certain incomes are able to have the their CSS Profile fees waived by the College Board. MIT is not able to offer a fee ... to your family, you are welcome to wait until you learn if you've been
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  ), because how else are you going to distinguish him from a regular non ... -insignificant amount of energy for me to psych myself up enough to interact with a large ... have to toss a ball around or [annotation note="I actually have a note

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  with “Try not to drink the media.” This really just implies that cell ... admitted to intrusive thoughts about sipping some media! Before I say ... these, and you should definitely not take this as an endorsement to chug

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  okay, so, sophomore fall was brutal. it went from manageable to tedious to outright AWFUL and i'm still recovering from struggling through a class I initially thought was easy. it took me literally ten minutes to do

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  , which said, "How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so ... mortal soul? and can you teach me how to dance real slow? [caption id ... growth. When I look back on all of the long drives west from Long Island to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  Gathering deck last week because I wanted to learn how to play, and I have ... and what I'm doing this summer. I'm doing this because a) I need to ... 'll be doing a lot of small, bite-size blog posts! So how was sophomore

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  Ethiopian scarves that I have. Mostly, I’ve just learned how to carry home in ... Wow. So this is what official blagging* is like. It’s nice to meet ... admissions blogs myself, and so now I feel like I’m obligated to post something

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  service did and it was incredible to see how appreciative the MIT community ... This semester has been quite quiet so far - just how I like it.  And ... friend Claire L. '17, and I know that we have it in ourselves to do well

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014