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Blog / How to MIT
The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT
the aquarium, museum of science, and the Maseeh Boat Cruise come to mind ... our collective dismay, there is another side of the coin: spending money ... to take care of pretty much all of their expenditures, choosing to live -
Blog / Admissions
Changes To Your MyMIT Account The no-online-notification thing may change in the future, but unfortunately not this year.
A quick response to some of the questions we've been receiving: you ... - remember that you can call us after 3/18) - otherwise, we'd be offering "online notification" which as you know we don't offer. :-) MyMIT will only -
FAQ / Interview
What is the interview process?
. Interviews are not a required part of the MIT application. While we try to offer as many interviews as we can, we have limited availability and may not able to offer interviews to all applicants. If your interview is -
Blog / Life after MIT
I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!
not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of 2008 ... 'm the author of such classics as That time we streamed a dance party from our floor lounge to the homepage of the admissions website and got -
Blog / Academics & Research
Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."
DID YOU KNOW? "The Canticle of Freedom," written for the dedication of Kresge Auditorium at MIT, was the only piece Aaron Copland ever wrote that was commissioned by a university. I feel that I've posted too -
Blog / MIT Life
My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.
an oh-so-healthy college student meal of pizza ordered on the internet ... thermodynamics) with me. Adam offered to take her to 16.07 (dynamics; basically rocket science physics and math), but she declined, as she only passed high -
Blog / Uncategorized
The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!
students apply to MIT because of its reputation, and I strongly believe a ... While I’m sure some of you have a good sense of what I do as an ... more agonizing) - that is all actually just a portion of my day -
Blog / Admissions
Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide
In light of interviews quickly approaching, I thought I’d do a post ... . Here we go! A bit of background information before we dive in ... -dimensional person, which is what we strive to do with all the other parts of the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet
, extracted parts out of that and applied it to how the newspaper put out a ... . MIT and GEL don’t just teach you the stuff out of the book about science ... During the first week of IAP, I took a class known as ESD.054 -
Blog / Athletics
How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process
hopefully some of the overall principles and advice can still apply! My ... for me, as I spent all four years of college playing D3 soccer on MIT’s Women’s Soccer team! I was the first in my family of four kids (who all -
Blog / IAP
a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that
of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of ... from one crowded platform to the next— the amount of times I had dropped my luggage in the past hour was enough embarrassment for all of 2025 -
Blog / Academics & Research
Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.
(except for you... you know who you are...) For those of you who don’t know, I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan University. I am currently working on a number of blog posts that will be -
Blog / Extracurriculars
the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do
One of my goals for my sophomore year was to do all the things I was afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do ... because a lot of the clubs required interviews. Being a wide-eyed frosh with -
Blog / Announcements
Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship
beloved member of our team, died unexpectedly yesterday. If you've applied to MIT this millennium, you probably interacted with Gisel, who was ... school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your -
Blog / IAP
GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget
"]GTL[/annotation] started with the warmest welcomes. On the very first day of the program, I walked through the front entrance of the Shoqan School and was serenaded by ... arrival of me and Colin, a PhD student also teaching at Shoqan. We went -
Blog / Classes
fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters
bible of all the classes offered at MIT in the fall. personally, i've got ... and nothing more or less. it is the epitome of what online university ... for lack of better things to do. michael from 2E is part of the dev team -
Blog / Academics & Research
One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology). And it’s AWESOME. Significantly less ... ). The term-long project (and ~40% of our grade) was to write a detailed ... brainstorming, doing tons of market research, forming ideas and designing a plan -
Blog / Personal Travel
A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)
streaming diagonally across the piazza, splashing rays of golden yellow onto ... squabbling over pieces of bread, the plaza is deserted except for an eccentric figure, dozing against one of the sandstone pillars with what appears to be -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIA No More Why I haven't blogged in 23 days.
(this idea is kind of a reach...but hey, applying to MIT was a reach for ... bloggers are doing an amazing job of keeping the MIT Admissions page updated ... else seems to be posting screenshots of their calendars, I'm going to do