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• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  their various talents to MIT and share them with others, people who will ... reasons why I chose MIT was it was the first school I visited where my student host didn't ask me what my SAT scores were. At MIT, people care

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  JKim. The Brass Rat is a long-standing MIT tradition that has given rise to MIT Admissions' own, relatively young tradition: blogging Ring ... Admission Officer of MIT - to be able to hand out the Golden Ticket of MIT to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  questioned about coming into MIT is absolutely not all what I should have been ... [annotation note="yes I am always lurking"]r/mit,[/annotation] all of the prefrosh seem to be freaking out over imposter syndrome/is MIT too hard/am I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  of 5 games played by the MIT community. Playing the games was ... Institute of Taxidermy, in dormspam-the-game"]MIT.[/annotation] You live in a ... student at MIT. You have 100 points to allocate across three categories

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  In 2019, MIT swapped out all of their coin-operated laundry machines ... and (2) an analysis showing how MIT students felt about Washlava based on anonymous MIT Confessions. 1. A summer discovery In my freshman year

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  I put up a blog post on MIT Admissions was about one year ago. I ... Media Lab Professor Danielle Wood speaking on an MIT-related comic con ... graduating, I... Began working at a robotics startup begun by MIT and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  IAP is a wonderful time here at MIT, where the month of January is ... weeks of IAP at MIT, and the last week at home. Over the past few weeks I ... been teaching Hebrew! MIT has a great culture of sharing and teaching

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  the several phrases I identify with, but thankfully, at MIT, the bulk of ... several with you. 1) THE MIT EXPERIENCE ITSELF: “MIT is amazing” has ... intertwine with the awe MIT creates. My classes really make me work harder than

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  I feel slightly weird to be typing away on the MIT blogs again, when the farthest thing on my mind right now is MIT. BUT - I feel like if I ... " - just allow me to say that I feel if you are a student at MIT, you should

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  It's official: my first semester at MIT is over. After finishing four ... semester at MIT. In retrospect, I realize that - in spite of reading the ... . People talk a lot about the "transition" from high school to MIT. But the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  them here. But first off, a general note about the MIT interview: MIT ... dimension to your application and also chat with an ex-MIT student about his ... finally meet up with your EC, don't regard him or her as a foe. The MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  more about biology @ undergraduate level (esp. @ MIT)? It's very true ... , particularly at MIT. Most of what I remember from high school was doing things ... biology. MIT's biology department, in contrast, is largely a biochemistry

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  the Mario hack was cool too! Go MIT!! Yikes. Like so many of the ... 's not like MIT can condone the behavior. That said, lots of "official ... hacks? I've heard about the MIT balloon popping up at half-time during the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  Earlier this week, I finished my last exam as an MIT undergrad. It ... the most challenging class I’ve ever taken) but four years of MIT’s ... is just my MIT-induced masochism/Stockholm syndrome speaking, but I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  " I bought at the MIT bookstore. This "toy" was Livescribe's Pulse Pen ... person from MIT helping out as well, so I recommended Chris, since Chris ... scheduled for July 24th at 10 in the morning. You're all applying to MIT, you

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  two ✅ I’ve done two UROPs so far at MIT. Both of these were during my ... was when I peaked during my MIT career. A grade that high on an exam was ... Use your MIT ID to go to the MFA for free ✅ During the summer of my

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  This is a (long) post detailing the week in which both MIT and ... value in a detailed account of the exodus from MIT from the perspective of ... of a similar plan being implemented at MIT. Life has often felt surreal

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  A lot of people at MIT were probably seen as the “smart” friend in ... niche. The “smart” friend. Then we came to MIT, and met all the other ... ’ve found myself in amongst my MIT group of friends: Namely, I am the “dumb

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  abbreviated “MIT” has more or less eclipsed its expanded form. With 3 characters ... websites and documentation are more likely to use “MIT”—so much so that the ... first week+ here at MIT, so if there’s any acronyms I can explain to you

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Semantle, [annotation note='david turner has his own fun mit association: he ... is [email]@ihtfp.net. Wait, what? IHTFP? IHTFP is MIT lingo to ... next, I Hate This Fucking Place. IHTFP is a core part of the MIT Identity

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022