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• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  what we do is more than a job, but a privilege and an honor. We are ... your applications, the support staff who made it possible for them to do ... climbing a mountain, and this year's application process felt a little bit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  Stop doing your homework, don’t worry about papers, don’t pay your ... ’re thinking “But Chris, why on Earth wouldn’t shirk my responsibilities? What do ... case you aren't convinced of the collider's sinister intent, take a look

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  stay in a hotel with them so that they aren't alone? Or do we need to ... schedule, going to the events they're interested in, doing a little exploring ... ... ------------------------------------- Jasmine wrote, "how do you register for CPW? I can't find any information

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  activity. Do you think I'm overreacting to have found this a bit appalling? I ... . First, an applicant should never assume something to be true about a school unless he or she has verified it with a primary source. Serving as

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write ... that famous.) The process of becoming a blogger starts, of course, with ... of summer. You have to answer a few short questions and write three

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  will do this for you anyway. :-) My advising seminar, 1.A24, has proved ... thinking a bit about age and about what it means to be eighteen, anyway, and what I should be doing here before it's too late. Certainly, the first

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  go on a mission. It's something I always assumed I would do. And since ... a bonus related article. Enjoy! Fannin finds more than academics at ... .By Lorrie Cecil/ThisWeek The movie "21," which is based on a true story

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  of a pink shag rug, and every piece of laundry that I still need to do ... the end of the semester, I found myself doing more in a way that didn ... paid for it a little. As much as I would love to do things for free, what

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment ... grabbing a blue book being handed out. I didn’t do as well as I thought I ... Here’s a picture of (almost) all the paper I’ve used at MIT so far

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  a new skill, doing research, or building an awesome project. HP and ... ’t be able to do much. When your MP and HP drop below a certain threshold ... ’t do a pull-up and my room perpetually looks like a broken laundry

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  what will be required of you as a frosh. Do a Freshman Pre ... picture for you - FPOPs are a great opportunity for you to do things outside ... includes doing the Freshman Urban Planning FPOP as a frosh, and working as a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  do a pull-up I have a somewhat irrational fear of the hypothetical ... ."]cook-for-yourself dorm[/annotation] with no meal plan, I sure don’t do a whole lot of ... /or watching people play Minecraft is a hyperfixation that can consume my

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  lived in a dorm, participated in lots of student activites, and went to physical classes. now, i'm living in a house with some friends, taking classes virtually and doing pretty much nothing else. it's weird. here

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  to do a thesis...also, I'm not ready to be a real person right now. I ... A couple of weeks ago, it was too warm and humid to sleep, so I ... into Jeffrey'13 leading a cluster of frosh from his FPOP. As is wont to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  probably the simplest thing I ever had to do on a computer but hey! It worked ... to be on the Burton half of the building in a double, but my room had ... there and make it a triple.) So when someone elsewhere in the building

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  . I was doing a regional reception in a city a few years back, and ... Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading right now, but I thought I'd take a quick break to tell you a little about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  . There were a thousand more things I could be doing—homework, playing video ... about, just a whole lot of doing and a whole lot of existing ... I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano, “always” being a brief

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  investigators at each school that I might like to do my thesis under. I did a lot ... lived disproportionately in my dorm, but I didn't have a problem doing ... stuff in the back, and we drove home. I was home for a week, during which

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  be patient. Please allow significant time for processing. Do not send a ... check it). Is it just a mistake? Do I need to worry about it?" Matt '00 ... school. For example, one part asks for a list of summer activities. Do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  community. Also, outreach isn't necessarily something you do wearing a nametag ... "I think that I could make a black hole," Carl says. I raise an eyebrow. "Really? How?" He rubs his hands together and squints. A lightbulb

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013