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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  founded by a guy named Jim Margraff who is, you guessed it, an MIT alumnus ... what to expect when you get to MIT. Floatillas, Liquid Nitrogen, and peak ... MIT alumni are dedicated to having as much nerdy geeky fun as they did

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  had a great career) Which is why I celebrated with a heavy heart

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  at MIT. I must admit that I also learned a lot of new information ... 're getting dressed in the winter. Layering is key, but you don't want to over ... 's snowing outside. These solutions ranged from Saferide to the MIT underground

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  semester, our chef, Karen, who is a trained pastry chef, makes some of the

  • by Bryan
  • September 27, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  application, which is what we do during our admissions committee selection ... unique to the MIT community. We don't have cutoff scores for the SAT or ... school both improves your odds of getting into MIT and will help you make
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  This is my favorite poem. Ladies and Gentlemen in Outer Space By Ron Padget   Here is my philosophy: Everything changes (the word ... better. Butter and serve. Here is my philosophy: butter and serve. Most

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  “This isn’t goodbye, this is see you later!” I told my family as they ... what symptoms. This is a story about how I survived Family Weekend ... underneath my bed or in the closet, I put on my best MIT gear and made the ten

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  them! (This sentence is also true about MIT in general, but CPW is ... MIT?" "what's the most underrated thing about MIT?"). This is the time ... It's CPW week!!!!!!!!! (What is CPW? It's Campus Preview Weekend, or

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  . There's no denying that MIT is hard, and I'd be lying if I tried to hide ... difficult the curriculum at MIT really is (not to mention how much I need to ... Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  think one of the most important things at MIT is not learning to be ... furthermore that MIT is full of people like this, like me in this regard; I ... these thoughts!) I guess that's how it is here -- most people at MIT seem

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  favorite things about MIT is that i never know how my day will go. it never ... [annotation note="the housing process at MIT is not random, but in the larger ... incredibly hard to leave MIT, if not the first year, then the second. it is a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  ="Taught by the wonderful Kirk Kolenbrander who is returning to MIT"]3 ... “This is it,” I thought as I submitted my last college essay. “I’ve written everything there is to write. I am never writing another word of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  witches element, but I learned so much more. Irish folklore is quite vibrant ... overlapping, sometimes contradictory tales, such that there is no singular canon, and the sum of parts is always greater than the whole. I gained a much

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  other thing MIT has recently done is that, as part of giving out i ... organize things, though, I ought to describe what is being organized. What I'm Doing This Semester The gist of it is that, compared to last semester, I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  was becoming. I wasn't growing.  Now, I realize that MIT is a marathon ... , and is set up in a discussion-focused style with debates and discourse ... in elementary school. Ah, the glory days.[/caption] The class is a lot

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  friends is actually starting a fine dining pop up series at MIT this fall ... negative cooking skills I had had before. Then I got to MIT, and more or less ... surprising ease. Now, I'm not a big foodie, which is something I've come to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  ... and money is nice... but I felt like I had a lot of time left at MIT to ...  linguistics UROP, which I think is super hecking cool. Right at the end of last ... MIT students that pulls all the advertised UROP postings from the MIT

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  with espresso clouds. Did you know that some people got into MIT recently? Interestingly*, I haven't gotten out of MIT recently. (In nearly one year, to be astrophysically precise.) *In fact, this fact is not factually interesting at all

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  opportunity to sightsee on MIT's money, but when is it NOT a great opportunity to sightsee on MIT's money? Mmm, $40 sashimi dinners.) As this whole ... This weekend MIT Japan paid for all the MIT interns in Japan to meet

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  everything, along with an excellent teacher, is what got you through AP Calc AB and BC. A fair amount of time is definitely not what you have right now. Your excellent teacher is back home in sunny, hurricane-prone South

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007