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• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  weather during CPW seems to be much nicer than the days around it. It would ... organize their week such that their studying is done before you arrive, or ... research at MIT. Similarly, you may or may not have the opportunity to have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  .   1:28 am - So much has happened in the past couple of days that ... that here! Friday 2/10/23  1:45 pm - Bhuvna M. ’23, Neil M. ’25 ... windy and cold than the sunny, deceptively warm Boston day we left behind

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  kids will become the High Schoolers that start or join High School teams ... PURSE OR SUITCASE OR WHATEVER DOESN'T HAVE TO BE RESCANNED EIGHT THOUSAND ... . Google booked rooms in a really nice hotel for us. At 7am the next morning

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  hammered out a pset, or even read a book, alas. I went to bed, and around 7 ... I’ve just taken the luxury of lavishing two full days on an essay ... allusions to. We got the essay prompt before Thanksgiving: who, or what

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! CELEBRATE! BE HAPPY!  

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU GOT IN! CELEBRATE!  

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  should it be. You think hanging something into Lobby 7, or hanging stuff on ... -world adventures and social-engineering, and they use 'hax' or 'haxxed' to denote the ... "roof and tunnel hackers" or "building hackers". Also, hacks are a subset

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  miles at least once every day for four weeks. I started to feel pain in my ... three days, deciding that the wait was too long for the first two days and then waiting for hours on the third day to see doctors once the pain got

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  details as to why or how and what lessons I'm taking away from that, but I ... better. I would take my final, one way or the other, and that would be the ... the water. We sat on the beach, the next day, and basked in the weirdly

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT’s Tribute to Boston Lights from the Green Building.

  

  Admissions Facebook page and Michael C.

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Getting My MIT Decision on Pi Day Pie a comic

  

  this comic was inspired by the pie invention scenes in Waitress the Musical

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  that knit. For a relatively small lab with about ten or so people, that ... my PI didn't get his license until three or four years ago.) (...I ... just two days before, with some slightly sad-looking attempts at flowers

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  war (or worse!!). This was all in order to reach my highest goal, my dream: to make a hopscotch down Vassar St, or the Simfinite. Anyways, here ... 100, and then 200, and then 300, and then… [carousel image1

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  hard facts. [carousel image1="85979" image2="85980" /] Khan Academy has ... could only find 27 that either had an official mascot, or some semblance ... [/caption] [carousel image1="86005" image2="86006" image3="86011" /] Taxonomic

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  are planning to cover their own dorms within the next z days!), I am ... Gregor Convenience, or MacCon) which is open until 2 AM every night. As you might ... out of pasta. Or Mountain Dew. MacGregor is divided into nine "entries

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  home, I'd just be playing Minecraft all day. So I set myself a basic summer plan: (1) [annotation note="Undergraduate Research Opportunities ... project called SandScape, where you have this tray of beads or "sand" that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  fulfilled by taking 4 gym classes, or by participating in 2 seasons of a ... how to swim, just not with any style or grace. So I showed up on the first day of class, ready to get some tips on how to improve my strokes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  teams (team 2 could only trade with teams 1 and 3, for example). On ... the “what?” It didn’t really matter about Legos, candy, or winning; what ... plenty on the GEL flickr and facebook pages!

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  recommendation; should I tell him to postmark it by Nov.1, or can he send it in ... affected by one of the hurricanes or by the earthquake in south Asia, I wish ... . After that time, it is appropriate to send any documents again, by fax or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  and/or Regular Action? A: On December 1st, QuestBridge will announce ... December 1st, we will simply email you instructions with how to roll over ... , what happens? Should I unrank MIT or withdraw my application? A: If your

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014