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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  We spent our last three summers at home. That’s not super common for ... where taking the summer off and living at home was an option (we realize ... this person is doing xyz, I should also be doing xyz”) and an internal

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• FAQ / Testing

  How does MIT consider test scores? Does MIT Superscore?

  We require the SAT or the ACT from first year and transfer applicants. Please visit our Tests & scores page for more complete details ... the most recent admissions year, visit our Admissions statistics page
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  pset with friends in your dorm lounge or at Stud 5, but this week you ... floor of the Infinite. You glance at your phone, to see a 4am Slack ... schedules fall into utter disarray at MIT. While some of my friends never

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  area. the first one was an invitation from a co-intern, who sent it in a group text with all the other company interns in the bay. it was a link to ... , it was held at an office. for a startup, of course, cofounded by one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  internationals at my hostel. More churches and panoramic views, but this time ... international volunteer organization that advocates for human rights and gender ... presentation resonated with at least one student.   Lake Como region that

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  Since Fall 2018, I've lived at WILG, an independent living group at ... occurred at our house. I'm happy to announce that we did not, in fact, burn ... ="alignleft" width="363"] two of our members at retreat last autumn[/caption] [caption

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  , I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In ... contributing member of society) dauntingly feels at hands reach. The unknowns are many and answers are few. Things are changing at a rapid pace and I don

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  These first 3 weeks at MIT can best described as a whirlwind of new ... , travelled to all parts of Boston in a mere 4 hours, had fun at REX events, survived a hurricane, visited too many club booths at the activities midway

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  . Careers AND Grad School. Thursday: Wake up at 5:05 AM. Board taxi to Logan ... . Arrive at Alden Hotel. MY ROOM HAS A KING SIZE BED. Now some people would ... for another dinner afterwards at one of my favorite restaurants

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  -- back when many of them were at MIT, course 9 was just psychology; the ... interviewed at too many PhD programs, thank you very much), so I seized the ... "Material Girl" at the top of your lungs. I found a pair of 4-inch Steve

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  of people. I've definitely succeeded in that goal, both at Senior Haus (where I lived as a freshman) and at Theta Xi (where I live now). As ... community at MIT, and I don't often talk to other MIT students about the

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  paper, problem set pages, 8.03 text book, 8.022 notebook (I know, I ... to sleep. For those playing along at home, here is Pset 8 in all its ... stare at part b. Inductance is nothing more than the result of geometry, I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  grader, but not because of the grade they gave me at all. See, I have this ... to make sense of the math as I worked through it. At the end of the page, I wrote my answer. Beneath that, I wrote, Whew. That was hard. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  page paper was due and said "Hi, I'm starting a 30 page paper on Pakistan ... cool artsy exhibits worth checking out. Anyway, my story begins at Rotch ... 'm at Rotch, and I've milked Barton for books already. Then I milk Vera

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  brewed jasmine tea at the [annotation note="My very cool independent living ... at night, and since our mealplan is open to anyone we can have upwards of forty people at dinner. But mornings feel cold and quiet and serene

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  portal again. I wasn't nervous at all. Confetti streamed down the page. I ... 've believed you. Now, a year later, I'm looking at the statistics for the first ... matching FSU sweatshirts. I kept glancing at the alarm clock. I was going to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  This last month, I was a micro-intern on the Semantic Machines team at Microsoft and got to work with Minecraft. I learned some cool things ... skeptical of my chances at getting into Microsoft, because I had only taken

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  weeks ago) is sitting at her computer, trying to choose classes, looking at course listings, and suddenly. She realizes. That everything is ... convey my point, I present to you the not-at-all-exhaustive and not-at

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  Aiken concert Sunday night at the Bank of America Pavilion. Though I'm by far the biggest fan of American Idol at MIT, I was still a little hesitant about seeing good old Clay in concert. I mean, look at this: Now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  -nature to skim through these emails, glancing at the subject lines, letting ... semester, and I jumped at the chance of signing up (as did Chel R. ‘15, who ... assignments grew in length (from a 1-page comic to a 20-page full issue with a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014