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• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  strong sign MIT is the right place for you. #4: Go to class. No, really ... to be taking over MIT's campus in five days. You may have heard of it ... upperclassmen or the Admissions Office hear, for this is top-secret information

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  Among all the classes that MIT offers, it’s almost impossible to ... actually NOT taking this class at MIT, because *sigh* MIT doesn’t offer ... * MIT offers this super duper cool opportunity to cross-register at 3

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  , lectures, and events - all of which have convinced me even more that MIT is ... phrase because it negates the notion that a "year off " is a year ... have ever met, a lot of whom have degrees from MIT. It was pretty cool to

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  Ratatouille and the tungsten cube Amazon review. because he is part of multiple communities and because it is funnier, the tungsten cube monologue has stuck ... seemed like some Jonathan-like MIT kid who one day decided to write this

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  . harmony and counterpoint i (21m.301) 21m.301 is one of the early music theory classes at mit. it assumes the ability to read knowledge as well as ... project is to compose a movement of a string quartet, and it’s cool because

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  Deresiewicz is probably relevant to you if you’re thinking about applying to MIT ... things aren’t productive. I’m not saying that MIT is [annotation note="if you’re a prospective student and this is worrying you, fear not: mit is

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  his homecoming tour. Keep in mind, this is a person I’ve been wanting to ... words: SOLD OUT). When I casually scrolled upon his face on an MIT ... set above the MIT campus last Saturday, I excitedly made my way to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  was explaining why, because the human eye is innately attracted to bright objects, awkward s pa ci ng between words and letters is visually ... ourselves with is the existential crisis of some whiteness. But when something

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  former MIT Dean of the School of Science, passed away after battling cancer ... that there is such a thing as a stupid question (the answer was right there on the lecture handout). That being said, he was - and is - one of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  -hello? Cheerful guy at the front desk: Ma'am, there is a taxi waiting for you. Me ... -less-cheerful guy at the front desk: Ma'am, it is currently 6:35. Me: Uh...oh. Haha ... turns out, CMI airport in Champaign, Illinois, is not very big, and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  . My only hope is that more people keep in mind that an MIT education is ... , for an upcoming post about my favorite door on campus. (No, that is not ... , where most of what I do is staring at a computer while it tells me how

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  One of the most common misconceptions about MIT is that the Institute is all about working hard, finishing problem sets, writing code, curing ... every party at MIT is as strangely awesome as, for example, Fifth East

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  Boston and MIT. Weird names. Hard to pronounce names. Names made ... courtesy of Sara, and then some MIT advice courtesy of me. Sara Advice When ... total n00b when you get to MIT. I'll help you out. First, pronouncing

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  is MIT by the numbers (MIT wrapped, if you will)...   5 MISTI ... being a mentor for DynaMIT which is a program that does STEM outreach for ... , MIT-MEET, and MISTI-UK. All of these were through MISTI, so they were

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  about what MIT peeps do during the summer since the holiday is fast ... during her four years at MIT, my response was “WOW”. Currently, she is ... at MIT and my crazyfrightenthelivingdaylightsoutofme 9-paper exam at

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  for those of you who don’t know, i’m part of the mit ohms, a south asian a cappella group. this post is a look at the different components of ... that you should come to if you happen to be a current mit student

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  country, he/she might say, "Hey, that MIT-Japan thing is pretty cool, I want ... info of my wonderful adventures in Spain: MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives) is the umbrella organization for a lot

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  i've never done misti, which is mit's international experience thing ... 't want to spend that much time away from mit." i never applied to a misti ... , making friends you see for but a few months. that's what summer camp is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  , and it is a good feeling. I plan on attending the Houston MIT Class of ... 'm meeting.  I'm from MIT, and I'm expected to perform and function like an MIT ... out that I'm the MIT intern they ask me fun questions like "do you play

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  What I acquired from the MIT Career fair last Thursday: 29 pens ... ! What I did not acquire at the MIT Career fair: A job. Yes, usually the point of a career fair is to collect job prospects, not swag. In the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010