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• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  thought should be able to provide a letter, however they are not able to do ... recommend having one letter from a math/science teacher, and one from a humanities, social science, or language teacher. Additionally, a letter is
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  throughout my life, so they're pretty great how do I find dances? this is a ... I've been dancing on a team at MIT for one and a half years, but I ... previous posts, a significant portion of my free time through middle and high

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  looks so darn happy doing it! I felt giddy. I didn't get a picture of it ... a picture of the MIT Hawai'i Club doing a traditional dance. They didn ... Okay, first off, I have to tell you that Erica '07 is a superhero

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  hey. it's christmas season in mit. i was never a big fan of christmas myself, nor do i really get the whole christmas spirit thing. but it just ... , which is the second-best time of the semester. mit has several a capella

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  Boston. There’s a list of “101 things to do before you graduate” that every MIT student receives in Orientation, and mine is a little more than ... it got to the point that, by reading the first sentence of a practice

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Bloggers invade LA What should Sam and I do in Los Angeles? Suggestions welcome

  

  instead of a suitcase. On our to-do list so far, we have 1. Roscoe ... the last bit of my milk, which may have been a problem tomorrow ... and I are flying out to Los Angeles today for a one-week stay in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  On Sunday, a coworker and I decided to be tourists in our own city ... of San Francisco do this every weekend, but do they do it on bikes they ... to walk our bikes down a steep set of stairs, across a path underneath

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  't get to do a Questions Omnibus before I left, but I promise to do one ... . Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend's wedding, but while you're over there, you might as well do some tourism, no

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  submit the form, even if you don’t have any updates for us. (Do you sense a ... edu with the new update Anything else I need to do?????? B R E A T H E ... grades. But you DO have to submit it, regardless of if you have updates or

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  there to do something fun when I need a study break. As far as ... to do laundry (I currently have a stockpile of laundry cleverly hidden ... a freshman. I was also wondering what sporting activities are really

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  doing something similar (in the "spending a lot of time on it" sense) with ... Sorry I haven't updated in a while. This past week has been deathly hosing. So I will post about what I did this week - a sort of "sample week

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!

  

  that if I were to get a B+, I should have opted to do less work and get ... 2005 in Review Being in college manages to teach you a lot of life ... 'll be better off from it. Here are just a few highlights of what college

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2005
• 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 isn't just a "polite rejection." Your application will ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  performance groups do their semester performances, and i don't go to a lot of ... . i've been doing more square dancing, and that's fun. a lot of my ... 'm doing this out of obligation. the other thursday there was a promys

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  only swap two adjacent wires at a time. Let’s do another example. We ... there a way to do something similar in three dimensions? These are the ... What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  last month. here's an excerpt: How do you know if you have a moral ... (IAP) at MIT -- between the fall and spring semesters, students get a little one-month term to do pretty much whatever they feel like. lots of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Minesweeper Monday Episode One: Quantum of Solace Emulator

  

  Hello everyone and welcome to episode one of Minesweeper Monday, a bit that I might never do again! In this episode I talk about Coffee and Radio and Movies and try for far too long to get an emulator of a game to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  past on the Infinite and call my parents is a tall order to do even in ... have been doing for a long time in the interest of my academics- picking ... It’s been a hot second since I last blogged- about ten weeks, to be

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Epic Split Feat. Tim Beaver (Live Test 6.28) with apologies to jcvd, enya...everyone, really.

  

  , perhaps not epic enough. So, we asked Tim if he could do a more epic split ... A few months ago Volvo released an ad called The Epic Split in which Jean-Claude Van Damme did a split between two trucks as they drove side

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  computer screen on a desk clicking buttons to do things. It's things like ... my life, I get to actually do cool engineering-y things with my actual hands for a research job. I have a UROP (Undergraduate Research

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013