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• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  What is the typical MIT weekly schedule? The answer varies wildly among students. On average, the time spent on work per week is between 23 ... the middle number greater than 0 (for example, 3-2-7). Other options are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  I can’t remember the last time I dressed up for Halloween. Last year ... on my butt) around the ice rink a couple of times, sans costume. But ... crab. Since I’m smiling in the picture, I can only presume that I was

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  the frenzy, not lessen it. 2) I worry that such a post would either be ... what people are afraid of. 3) For me, the best treatment was DISTANCE from the MIT admissions blogs - sitting on mitadmissions.org and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  [email protected] or call the Admissions Office at 617-253-3400.]   ... international students.   We are less than two weeks away from the Early ... some of the common deadline-time questions. There are many answers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  approach than just leaving the recommendation form on their chair and running away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation forms for every one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  friend in the head while gesticulating the angle between a wall clock and the horizontal. In an effort to convince Matt McGann that I am an entirely trustworthy employee as long as you don't ask me for the time in a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  you can get to MIT significantly before September. Well, the choices are yours. Soon you'll be getting "The Next Big Mailing," (or have you gotten ... prefrosh are trying to figure out the best way to spend that last summer

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  Almost forgot... In all the laziness surrounding my vacation, I almost forgot that I had pictures from the last few days of the semester to ... some from the Conner 2 holiday dinner. Unfortunately, I can't find the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  has been much easier to take Harvard classes in the Spring term, when MIT's schedule and Harvard's schedule are pretty much the same (MIT and Wellesley use the same academic calendar; I'm not sure about the two art

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  it really came true. I never expected to be the person who I am now ... . My two passions were basketball and programming. I was on the Varsity ... freshman fall.  And now? I am not on the team anymore, and I have no idea

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  .01 exam. So on the back of my index card, after writing in all the last ... MIT has had those words written across the bottom. After freshman year ... before the exam. (Despite the fact that I was always sort of afraid that a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  why they do math and their thoughts on the MIT math department. Here is ... Jonathan. I joined the department as a postdoc last year. I'm interested in topology, which is the study of flexible shapes like knots or rubber surfaces

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter ... summons me at 10:00 pm to accompany her on the most random and hilarious shenanigans. Exhibit A: On the last day of finals, as if to celebrate the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  ’s only been a week. Adjustments to The Adult Life were abrupt. Suddenly I ... summer, in no particular order. Enjoy. I have one foot in the door of Jaded Senior and one foot still in the hallway of Dear God What Am I Doing

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  This coming Tuesday, the major declaration form is due for freshmen. What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my ... weird nerd thing since I was young and declared Neptune the greatest

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  seasons have come and gone, but the one with you isn't coming around at all. from everything goes on: But if I was gone tomorrow, would the waves crash on? Is it selfish that I’m happy as we pass the setting sun? from

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  not very legible but it’s cool that they’re there *should* earn the ... follow societal norms.  desktops get more and more comfortable as the semester goes on sometimes the TA for the next recitation comes in and does

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  in one of the organizations i'm in, esp, we toss the phrase "institutional memory" a lot. it refers to the knowledge that's shared between the members in the group. because our membership is almost entirely undergrads

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  'm sad that I can't keep the karma for my main. I'd have loved to comment ... suffer from being interminably on the internet. My parents always yelled at ... to be interminably on the internet: Cambridge weather sucks. Why would

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2026 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... Regular Action, 33,796 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2026. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022