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• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  alive and things. There is no one living in the middle of the driest parts ... ) and the digging of these wells can be a very dangerous operation. Muti and the Kaffa region overall gets a ton of rain, which is great because

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  .091 and 5.111, where the first number is what course the class falls under ... think I knew the majority of the majors at heart and even if I didn't, you ... and it was one of my favorite classes of my first semester. I actually

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  , and I don’t think about the three whole paragraphs of hell that I just ... , because this box is sad and boring, and there’s a whole wide world of ... generally wrestling with a whole lot of thoughts. That was a bad semester, and

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  around for a few more hours until the end of the party. and when everyone ... steam, and i felt zero motivation to work on any of the puzzles. this ... a friend, and then did some square dancing with people. and the whole

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  downloaded Eclipse and got a book on Java. I made it through the first two ... navigate through a maze, and I started to get the hang of Python. I started ... ("Why the exponential growth? Learning coding consists of two parts. 1

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can my school use Naviance?

  our Letters of recommendation page; however, we also accept electronic documents submitted through Naviance, SCOIR, or other methods. Regardless of where documents are submitted, recommenders must fill out the MIT
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  first week of orientation, you get to go around and visit all the dorms ... One of the coolest things about MIT is Residence Exploration (REX ... all your stuff and move to a different dorm. The day after REX ends

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  nowadays. I will be the first to admit that I'm very vocal. And also very blunt. I'm not afraid to call it as it is, and I'm usually the first to ... . There were about twenty of us in this cohort and we had basically have the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  this institution and the work of admissions has meant to me, is too ... blogs and help think about the fledgling system of social media (Facebook ... first day in a blitz of answering questions and trying to learn everything

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  write the first draft of the whole thing and submit it to some journal ... I am just full of sweetness and light today. Lab-related good news ... finished it, and gave it to Morgan (do I have to say that he's the professor

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  of the fun crowd. CPW is about taking risks and doing unexpected things ... should live. I was scared off visiting one of the dorms during CPW, and I ... Welcome and CPW Closing Show. The former is the first time you'll see all

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  visits me and he can ham it up even more: a) Without fail, the first ... . Yes, I play in it during the year.) b) Ry and Dad are fans of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives (which is one of the few things we disagree on - I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  was the first day with the new time, and it was kind of exhausting ... a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the ... with). The three of us take turns running the meeting and share updates

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  I’ve been breaking the monotony of quarantine and wearing pajamas all ... hair was moisturized and remained that way for the whole week I had it in ... accidentally got glue on my eyelids and had to rub parts of the makeup off

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Beaverheimer (Pi Day 2024) 3/14/24 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  note="which will take somewhere between 80 and 90 hours"]the entirety of ... .mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s where you’ve been able to ... .mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In, then click “Forgot Your Password?” and follow

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and ... taking the MCAT and a couple other chemistry courses, the three laws of ... able to make out my efforts to stifle my laughter. And the efforts of my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  marked our second year as part of the consortium, and we’ve received a lot ... ?” “What does MIT do as part of it?” and “How can it help me?” Well, the ... the right fit for us. So as we wrap up our first full academic year of

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  being waitlisted, and a whole spectrum of feelings in between. I remember ... pondering, and I liked the word just as much. I liked the idea of being an ... I make sacrifices and choose the right instead of the easy, focus, and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  . The First Parish in Cambridge hosted a Q&A book-signing with cult ... for Weird Culture, so of course I had to go. blurry and far away He was full of great one-liners and aphorisms, but one that stuck out

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Tracking now available You can check the status of your application components now on MyMIT.

  

  Now that our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the ... the status of your application components. The Application Tracking will ... . What happens if the tracking system is missing something? First, do not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2009