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• FAQ / Academics and research

  What kind of things can I do during IAP?

  four-week term at MIT that fills the month of January. For more than 50 ... If you think MIT is all work and no play, let us take you for a spin in the big, wacky, comfortable chair called IAP. Sandwiched between the
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will you send me materials/prospectus/t-shirt/pennant?

  we don't send any international mail), but you can sign up for our ... requests for pennants, t-shirts, and other MIT items, but because we're a ... . You can shop online at the MIT bookstore, The Coop.
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  , MIT makes it quite easy to cross-register for up to two classes at ... start biking, which will be glorious, I think, for at least two weeks ... -stem classes — there’s an entire department of folklore, for example, and another

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/19/20, 3:14 PM ET

  

  co-signs this sentiment)"]‘All I Want for Christmas is You,’[/annotation]it’s anime. Can you do this for me?” And, with a tear in my eye, I looked at my ... Sabrina told me about it."]Sephiroth[/annotation] get announced for Smash

  • by kellen manning
  • December 14, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  not located at MIT during Thanksgiving break. However, I was able to ask ... dinner has happened for the past three years. A few of us who were not going home for Thanksgiving first organized it in 2014. Since then, it

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  much for the rainbow smelt population in the river, but it did make for ... , we stopped at a Wendy's. I ordered a #5 Spicy Chicken Fillet combo ... poultry, so I took the hamburger and my receipt back up and asked for a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  'm not famous for being a rockstar. :-) First, the "rockstar" bit. We had ... thread helped me get over the end-of-vacation blues - many thanks. For the ... another pic soon for you guys to try to figure out, that was fun. Now the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  I came into my office on Friday and guess what was waiting for me ... they're called that). For the next month, the admissions staff will be ... together and make decisions for each case. Finally, we'll put the decisions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  stared at the long island sound for an hour from the driver's seat. i ... advance them at a snail's pace. i made a point last fall in only bringing ... .[annotation note="they're all good books: i don't know why i'm so bad at finishing

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  ; At MIT, a hunger for chocolate knowledge   Jayson Lynch (center) hands out samples at an MIT Laboratory for Chocolate Science tasting ... about the Lab for Chocolate Science at WeirdBostonEvents.org. "I'd love to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  adorable. Here's him learning to use scissors for the first time at our local ... scheduled for August 2023 and began training! I was at a marathon-level of ... sold all of my childhood Pokemon cards for $1,400 of store credit at a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  Last night, I went to bed at 5 am. This morning, I woke up at 9 am ... Garba, Dandiya Raas, and Bhangra dance event, took place yesterday at the ... : My friends and I were among the first to arrive at Milan; not being

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  efficiently, by the time I woke up for the second time at 11am there was not ... this will go on for. The construction has begun at 8am for several ... not unduly harsh. The past week or so a dull thudding began at 8am sharp

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  Francisco: not at all. My hometown is Valenzuela, an hour long commute from ... 'd ever wanted to go, I'd gotten to in at worst an hour; most of the time ... destination isn't in downtown someplace, you'd probably have to walk for half an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  anyone!) At the end of last semester, the [annotation note="the undergrad ... at that time, but I asked my friend Tiffany L. '24 to get a strawberry ... at that I kept putting it off. Still, I'd find myself inevitably

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  Comics class at MIT, but got more of a grasp for this skill in the two ... this, and we didn’t have time to cross reg at MassArt for this.  3D ... clicking through and looking at the specific classes required for each of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  actually took this for granted until I arrived at college, and found out a ... this would be an especially good time to recognize my mom for her importance in my life and at MIT. We all talk about a lot of stuff happening

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  weekly PSet for my two courses. I try to get at least a problem done while ... :00 - Special Relativity. This class is so conceptually interesting at least for ... :30 - Closing Time. Now, it is time for me to go home! Well, somedays at least

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  for some of the ones I attended at college too. Which makes sense, I ... two weekends I spent at MIT for [annotation note="Another on campus ... it was hard not to forget that I had psets for a couple of days. Here

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  blog post, the one you're reading at the moment? It appears that blogging ... depleted for several months. There's a lot of reasons, professional and personal, why that's been the case. At this point, I've been able to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019