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• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit a February Updates & Notes Form (FUN)?

  Action admitted and deferred applicants, Regular Action applicants, students who have graduated, and international applicants. The form will be available in your application portal in late January and should be completed
• Blog / MIT Life

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

   (or rather, Papa Matt!) a congratulatory card. B) On Wednesdays and Fridays, I ... something to my cello case while I was out of the room. G) My hallmates and I ... Place" and sits next to a poster of Jimi Hendrix). H) Sasha '13, one of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  cancer, HIV and AIDS patients." "Daniel explored the theory of partitions, a branch of additive number theory, and proved a conjecture posed by ... , including the fields of coding theory, representation theory and algebraic

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  ¼ cup of a GANGNAM STYLE FLASH MOB 15 teaspoons of SERENADES, and 9 liters ... Asian culture though performance and food, and you boil 3 handfuls of the ... , values, and wellbeing on Sunday. Emad and Anna covered this here and here

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  items had mysteriously appeared on and around the Little Dome, Lobby 7 ... on a public on-line publication would be rather rude of me. Hacker ... something illegal, and also because it's part of the Hacker Code of Ethics to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  , and planned that it would take about a third of the hours it did, so I ... "]Randomites,[/annotation] namely stories of the engines revving through the day, and swarms of bikers ... was lined with motorcycles of every style, year and brand, and so many

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  bass and the correct preparation and downward resolution of the sevenths ... again. He demonstrated this. Then he turned on his trusty MP3 player and ... up at 4 AM after I-forget-how-many hours' sleep and start on a thermo

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  lots of actual, concrete stuff in every lecture. So every Tuesday and ... ," and feeling all enlightened and such. Part of this is because the class ... documented some of the sleepless night I spent the other day working on what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  and see it is more of the same. I see my tasks pile one on top of the ... -about-the-journey-than-the-destination kind of person and I find it bittersweet once my train finally pulls into ... , wishing I could constantly be in the in-between of here and not quite there

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  ). My research is on the microbiome of the female genital tract, and my ... offered me a blog and the task of writing about my life at MIT and the ... research, and enjoying this view from my lab on a daily basis: Campus

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  hundreds of thousands of dollars and was produced entirely by a major Madison Avenue marketing firm, and was taken "on the road" for the better part of a ... , and I thought I'd share them on the blog as well. MIT: The Motion

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Procrastination For Finals ...so I cooked dinner instead.

  

  My last assignment for the semester was turned in on Tuesday, and ... on Tuesday, Wednesday, AND Thursday morning). So to procrastinate on ... 'm too lazy when there's a lot of assignments and exams - i really only

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  on February 28th, the 18,239th and final piece was placed into the ... , and they responded with a level of excitement that I’ve come to expect ... puzzles and some negotiations over the size of the one that we would be

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  part of the tradition however was starting a puzzle on New Year's Eve and ... So, it's the middle of January and although it was an unseasonably ... anytime I need just a few minutes of peace and quiet or when I need to clear

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  leadership curriculum through weekly lectures and weekly hands-on labs over the course of an entire year. I was a GEL1 my junior year, and I am now ... of little green cabins and a ginormous iced-over lake. After tossing

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

   hours[/annotation] of practice and preparation, the stars in charge of determining ... fan and internships started getting cancelled left and right because of ... initially kind of bummed about this, mostly because I was losing out on the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  ; students are printing leaflets of resumes before the printers get tied up on ... , and a variety of other fields! I was the last person I thought would ... -campus and out of town so that I wouldn’t start feeling burnt out before

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  School of Architecture and Planning's Mobile Experience lab, and I might ... the operation of the trains -- and new space is opening up where those ... kinds of things appeal to them, and how do they interact with their fellow

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  advice and chat about the UA (see fourth paragraph), of which he was ... , A Land of Dreams and Fire, is yoinked from a quote in a fantasy novel ... about me, in general. I live on 5th East, my wonderful hall in the dorm of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  activity list, list of honors and awards, self-reported coursework form, or ... misspelled words I see on applications. And, thanks to GoogleBattle, I'll tell ... As you begin your MIT application and other college applications, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008