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• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  of MIT soon, so you might as well pack up your bags and go home now. As ... . We teach classes on topics of our choice to middle and high school ... turning a funny mix of pink and orange. You (and everyone else in your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  ahead of me" days. A quick break from 2.001 will be good though, and I ... Internet the other day and stumbled upon a website that touted a video of ... too much time blogging and on the internet) I decided last year that I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  's paper application within the next week or so, and will have it on hand to ... applicants who love MIT and show high passion, how does MIT choose? Of course ... . And when we admit a student, we admit that student to all of MIT, and at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  the heart of everything MIT stands for, and what we try to do here on ... a comment by me, or the admissions office, or MIT on the politics of these policies, nor on the proper configuration of copyright law. These

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  in charge of navigation and calling any important features they see ... *written by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20 (members of MIT SEVT) as a ... stressful nights and over 1,700 miles on the Oregon trail, the finish line was

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  wrote on their application, and students are free to choose any major they ... knowledgeable on many types of schools, and your moves will be an important part ... any form of online decisions. If you are admitted and live abroad, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  like to call it) for all of high school, and we’ve been twins, well, our entire lives. Lots of people find it hard to tell us apart (and that ... , Allan, and get to know us :). *segway alert* We recently had many of these

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  that entry. First: to those of you who got in - congratulations, and welcome to MIT! I hope to see you on campus during CPW. To those of you who ... versions of that application, asked for several others' opinions on my essays

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  back. And so most schools cut back on some combination of hiring, raises ... quadrupled, and while we still spend a lot (again, a lot) of time on each ... recession, on the one hand, and the ever-accelerating Red Queen spiral of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  , pleasure, and community building," and anyone of any level could apply as ... grants of between $50 and $250 to pods and virtual groups for art supplies ... expensive they are. I settled on gouache and acrylic paint bundles

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  classwork and clubs. As of now, the most concrete way I plan on doing this is ... wonderful result, reflecting on the midpoint of a journey through MIT as well ... . But it’s also a bit of a comfortable spot to do some reflecting and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  MIT a week early and learn about a specific aspect of MIT while getting ... know pretty much every single one of the groups on that list! I have to ... on growing companies while living in Israel, Europe, Asia, and the US

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  of clothes in a pile being sold at a dollar fifty a pound - and I think ... - why, that IS Ace of Base playing on my boombox! Tae bo, anyone?) - it ... Garten's Butternut Squash soup and entirely mismatched sets of flatware

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  'm back on campus, but more than a year has elapsed, and i'm a junior now ... heavily on the upperclassmen in my living group and clubs. i felt ... 't waste their time on! how the hell did i get here? why do i have any

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  to focus on pursuing those opportunities I have in front of me and ... environment, and I’ve been trying to soak in as much of it as I possibly can. So ... ’m on a completely different path than I was last January. Most of you

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... . These short-answer essays are only one small part of the application, and ... careful of characters like apostrophes, em dashes, and quotation marks. If

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  any right to be, and the quaintest things have the best way of reminding ... around the end of January. Unfortunately, this year hasn’t been any ... difficulties that I cannot, and don’t need, to handle on my own.  At some point

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Hacks

  Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.

  

  has already increased the amount of greenspace on campus by 0.0005%. And ... really early when I got to the front door of the dorm and saw: No ... because of the email from the night before, and I quickly discovered the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  whole thing. There will be plenty of time to go crazy and lose sleep once ... graduate students? Have you or any of your friends started researching for any of the despartments?" So UROPs are pretty cool, or so I'm told

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  amount of time writing publicly on the Internet about my thoughts and ... asleep and the story continued. Eventually, I’d be wrenched out of the ... think the more troubling and complex part of this is that part of me

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022