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• Blog / Events

  Roller Coasters and Dance Parties Sunday was the East Side party! Lots of loud music and prefrosh!! Still, no fun.

  

  This past Sunday was the East Side party, where the denizens of the ... the fantastic roller coaster and fort for themselves.  Everything felt ... from the party, enjoy! I even got to go on a ride

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July A video experiment just for the heck of it

  

  completely by one of the YouTubers I watch regularly, Emily Diana Ruth. She ... Illustrator and Premiere. So I decided to take advantage of the remaining time ... fun. This particular experiment is a product of 1) wanting to test the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 30, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Transfer Decisions Will Be Sent Today see title, more or less

  

  applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed on their application. The emails will be sent at 5 PM Eastern today, May 7, and you should receive it shortly thereafter, depending on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  Aviator and Family Guy) while assembling our airplane to drown out the raucous men out in the parking lot blasting loud country music. While all you sprightly prefrosh came rushing into MIT for the one and only Campus

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  It's pre-finals week. Today is the last day of classes. Projects are ... professor last night, and frankly everyone is just counting down the minutes until the day is over. For me, laughter is the best therapy (fortunately

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  smuggled out of dinner. Now, you may be wondering, is the above: 1) a ... sub-par metaphors that, upon deeper analysis, actually expound on the ... questions. One could certainly argue that the connotation of the word

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  Here's the thing about me: I'm naturally an introvert. Talking to ... based on how familiar with the person I am, how much I know about the topic of conversation, and how much sleep I got the previous night. Not

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  During my first pass through the Logan Airport security line, I was ... : Yep! TSA Agent: Wow, physics. Great time to be a physicist, with all the ... 's right around the corner. TSA Agent: Ah, well. Life gets better, don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  " for the rest of his life), Middle English and the Canterbury Tales (they even got to hear me read out loud in Middle English), the art of writing ... -mail to ALL THE PREFROSH! passing on personal advice and some specific

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline

  

  looks like the site is back up again! Thanks again for your patience ... above and beyond what we had originally anticipated). We're aware of the ... 't log in, don't worry; we'll be flexible with the Regular Action deadline

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  huge convention/fair of creative people getting together to show off the ... replica of Mousetrap the board game. Rather than have me add 25 hyperlinks ... be there! Oh yeah, its got everything. In addition to all of the

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  just like good noms. There's a few eateries in the Cambridge/Boston that ... situated close to the Cambridge / Boston divide, there's also a number of other places to drop some dough for a bite to eat. I'll leave the fun of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  Hello from the other side! Like the wizened, immortal Jess Kim, I am ... Square, just a few blocks from MIT. I’m the youngest employee and the only ... interns for the summer, I was all like, “yay! I will not be the least

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chem Lab Boot Camp!

  

  , filmmakers followed around the participants of 5.301 Chemistry Lab Techniques as they struggled with the intensive, high stakes world of ChemLab Boot Camp. The footage has now been edited together in an engaging way and

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the ... like this, or even this.* Last semester, I found the remedy to most ... humanity's personal experiences.   Lealia '15 reveals the solution

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  Boston for the summer. One fistfight later*, I landed in DC, fully resolved to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer ... New York, some guys decided to beat each other up in the main concourse

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  the morning. The worst was that they matched: how nice that pearl stud ... pairs of earrings at the same time. Never again would I have to choose between dangly earrings and studs. But what if I got an infection from the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  ? Should I still be hanging around reading the blogs? At MIT, a deferral ... once again be considered by the committee during regular action. You are at no advantage or disadvantage versus the regular action applications

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  have learned now in my advanced age. On the same day, in a very different part of the Internet - though culturally close and easily accessible via ... ; now, 9 days later, it has filtered through the rest of the Internet back

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  unfamiliar with the terminology: hosed- (adj): to be completely and utterly floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the ... different interesting events happening at all hours of the day that I want to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011