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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  promise): It’s a lake, it’s frozen. I am standing on it while taking this picture. For a person who grew up in very arid parts of the west coast, I ... stuck at home for 6 (yes, for real, thanks mister snow storm) extra days

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  ;congratulations on your debut!” There appears to be some sort of argument of ... guess I am going to start going around and bothering expatriates. One of ... . She sort of looked at me incredulously, and then asked me if there wasn

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  call MIT home. Though they all do different things — baking and ... by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a ... Updates and Notes Form, which will become available in mid-January on your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  grocery store. Instead of chocolate, I've been gnawing on blueberries and ... Today marks the tenth day of my ill-conceived diet, and all I want ... strictly true. Today should be day 11 of my diet, but on day 2 I feasted on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  this have to do with you leaving Maine and moving home?” Well, on about ... with a group of friends and acquaintance from MIT instead of moving back ... school and high school– I liked to think of things in term of absolutes

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  , Violence and Victory), thousands of Vagina Monologues productions are put on ... apparently Jax Kirtley is, and since their photos are on the Wild Party photo ... any pictures of the play, which is really sad because one of my friend

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  have been schooled in the home and under the umbrella of larger ... version of something that will eventually be posted as official content on ... homeschooled students, and these students are successful and vibrant members of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  focus on the other parts of it! I think a lot of people, and sometimes ... don't feel any shame in it. Most of the time, I love the way I look. And ... thing so much, but I wasn't any good. Now, I'm kind of sucking it up and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  clearly predicated on the responses of all the other competitors and is luck ... all had different perceptions of depending on their immediate and social ... small prize of $15. In my last post, I wrote about Game 1: Hide and Seek

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  your legal name and the Office of the First Year may use your preferred ... You should use your current, legal first and last name when filling out those fields on the application. This is important so that your
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  thrill of the first impossible PSet. On sleepy breakfast runs, the Dome is ... MIT, unsure whether the prospect of returning home for the holidays ... , and the occasional surprises of the semester seem alien and odd. For the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  traipsing through puddles of psets, EMT drills, writer's block, dance, and ... and unruffled. Much of this weekend was admittedly fun-filled: EMT drills consisted of eight hours spent gulping down donuts and pizza

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  's all a state of mind. Read on and find out how I spent the second day of ... out on the dock enjoying 12 minutes of sunshine and eating fluffernutter ... This was one of those days on which I just did so much that I can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  leapt out of bed and answered the door. Figure out the damage. On the ... middle of Ames Street, and pulled out my laptop. I sat down, put it on my ...  hundreds of student-run events to welcome the class of 2023 and help them figure

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  the identification of, and reliance on, fundamental principles: children ... of Admissions at MIT, wrote a short book called College Admissions and ... profession, and one of those texts that reads basically as true today as it did

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  front of an audience of 200 they shouldn't be looking at a black box on the small of your back, if you know what I mean. MTG (and MIT's other ... together around here and the payoff is six days of raw, naked glory (let me

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  , currently on our faculty and all of them teach undergraduate classes. In fact ... work on a proposal, and then you will join their team. 95% of MIT ... collaboration. Students are encouraged and expected to work with each other on
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  I come home each night and tell my wife over dinner how lucky I am ... that many of my favorites would not get admitted, and for all the work ... all night, as vivid dreams of applicants and admissions decisions

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  's just a bunch of stories told, handed on. That's not what this means. What ... had a case of food poisoning that spiraled out of control and resulted ... 're supposed to focus on what it is that we're wanting to move towards instead of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

  posts about hacks here. No word yet on any hacks in honor of canonical ... on the roof of the Great Dome as an homage to the Marvel hero. Via ... by the Globe Sunday said dozens of people worked on the project for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019