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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  this semester has been especially fun and out-of-the-ordinary. So two weeks ago - …the assignment was to construct a bamboo-and-canvas shelter ... had to sew a whole set of beds as well as parts of the roof cover?? Or

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  take up a quarter of the page, and to be printed in full color. Also ... work stand in the way of food. And seeing as I had been sleeping, as ... . And it may or may not be your dream school, but at the end of the day

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the residence halls/housing like?

  More than 70% of our undergrads live on campus, including all first-year students. Housing differs across campus and we want each student to live where they feel best. Detailed descriptions of the undergraduate residence
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live

  

  [annotation note="Given the complexity and specificity of each individual ... I'm writing to announce that the application for first-year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2025 is now live. You can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  to the same standard of attentive, empathetic, holistic review, and ... early April. Congratulations to the Class of 2026, and best wishes to all ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2026 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  Period), it’s basically the whole month of January during which …MIT ... Postscript, Python, C, C++, Haskell, and Java. I have not heard of half of the ... of the most popular offerings that fill up very quickly include the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  at the FireRoad app as I try and fit all of my interests into a ... read my blogs and it was one of the most memorable and craziest moments ... I flew back home on the eighteenth with hopes of having a productive

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  recall we journeyed to New York City at the end of July and survived a ... shiver in the dregs of December and qwertily exercise fingers unwarmed by ... Science) and live on Conner 4 of Burton-Conner. Basically, I've got a run-of-the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  place is actually still pretty green and pretty. Well, the first picture ... Like MIT, Cambridge also gets its share of tourists and visitors. I ... too many pictures of the Cambridge as an actual town in this blog. So I

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  are extremely common, and a majority of the classes I've taken so far ... as your grade for the whole class. Seems kind of risky, but maybe ... visit them and talk to one of the S^3 deans if you need advice, need to

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I’m a first-year college student?

  Yes, because you finished high school and will complete two terms of college by the time you enter MIT in the fall, you are eligible to apply as a transfer applicant. You're not eligible to apply as a first
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  was graded, i was still passing 0% of the tests. i needed to sleep, and ... a mix of places both new and familiar -- the mfa, chinatown, boston ... kkb and the crowd were hype. 10/10 would hear 90% of the venue shout

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  and my 238 units past the GIRs, 180 of which I needed to graduate o ... dropped on the week of Drop Date I dropped 2.001/Mechanics and Materials and 6.008 on the week of drop date. 2.001 was honestly the roughest

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  it for the return of students, and I wanted to share it ahead of Labor ... I'm spending the day meeting with my first-year advisees before classes begin next week. But over the last week, the Class of 2026 arrived

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  House. Ran into: Ariadne, Curtis, Phil, Kris, and The Entire Class of 2010 ... as to whether or not to add 5.112, seeing as the first half of 5 ... -Center without collapsing from exhaustion, length of walk and/or back pain. Mental

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  At the end of January (our Independent Activities Period) I made a promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I ... Of Brain: "You got your fix during IAP, in Hack Punt Tool! AND it was a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

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

  

  Slack screen, and typed “Petey, I got you.” Considering the title of the ... .mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s the same place that you ... write this blog,” and I’m like, “Of course, no problem.” Then Petey

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

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  is the whole story. It just keeps on going. Bringing new twists and ... appreciate the ups and downs and in betweens of life for making us the people ... lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  of which English is my first language and Hindi my second. So I would I ... deadline, and am now enduring the nerve-wracking period of waiting for the ... learner who needs lots of reinforcement before grasping a concept and the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  rest of the students by allowing them to build great labs and dorms and ... legacy admissions, and we do not do anything of the kind. This is ... into (and out of) MIT, and that’s the hard way. The people here value

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012