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• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  Harvard and MIT to go on a cross-country bike trip (Washington D.C. to San ... the most important thing they look for, at least for MIT. I did no science fairs, no research, and no internships before MIT. The two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  about teaching at MIT. How would you describe yourself/what do you do? I ... tell stories in so many different mediums. How did you find MIT and what ... about teaching? I love MIT! Years and years and years ago, I applied to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  finally woke up. I sprayed dry shampoo in my hair, and headed to MIT Medical ... and talk about things, and how to cope with the pressure that is MIT ... the session, I went to the MIT pharmacy to grab some medication that I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  summer is that most places, like MIT’s campus, Newbury Street, Boston ... Medical Center in the morning and from TMC to MIT’s campus for my afternoon ... , which has a stop right in front of MIT on Massachusetts Avenue and crosses

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  ’s finally the weekend—a four-day weekend at that—but MIT has another thing ... things where MIT tries to compensate for beating the crap out of everyone ... still mostly fried from sleep so I suggest somewhere in MIT. We also

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  planner.mit.edu, I quickly noticed that my schedule would have a very low ... "yolo" and decided to attend MakeMIT, MIT's first ever hardware hackathon ... best decisions I've made while at MIT. 3D printers, laser cutters, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  months. As this week comes to a close, so does MIT's week of finals. This ... MIT gives us first semester on Pass/No Record means that I think most ... (Independent Activities Period--in essence, MIT gives us the month of January to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  from the MIT admissions blogs - sitting on mitadmissions.org and ... immediately" or "I'm worried that not getting into MIT will mean that I can ... to a small school, and word had gotten around that I applied to MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  one of my sisters (and friend I made before MIT through FRC), Erin B ... problems (literally, a Course 8, physics, proof; MIT students still find the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  read me the text he had just received from the MIT alert system ... place, report suspicious activity by cell phone to MIT Police 617-253-1212. Or on campus phone dial 100." I sent a mass text to all my MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Primer trimestre del primer año Una historia de terror, diría… pero con un final feliz.

  

  , durante el primer trimestre de primer año en el MIT, solamente te evalúan ... varios motivos. Las clases del MIT son más exigentes que las de la ... bajas de sus vidas en el primer trimestre del MIT. El sistema incentiva

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  weekend. “Being hosed” is an MIT phrase meaning “having too much to do and not enough time to do it,” since getting an MIT education is like drinking from a firehose; rest assured, there are times when life at MIT gets

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  info of my wonderful adventures in Spain: MISTI (MIT International ... of the study abroad that MIT students do. Basically, back in the 70s (or 80s, memory fails me...) MIT-Japan was started as an organization to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  about the Red Sox. Because had it not been for the MIT Blogs, I'm not ... pay to come to MIT just to be miserable. So I'm taking classes that make ... to the rest of the world as "calculus." MIT requires two semesters of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you ... a one-year (or sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, you ... world. Welcome – MIT’s an amazing place (no matter what you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  coach before I apply to MIT or just (if i get in) show up for tryouts? And ... 't get you into MIT on its own, but like anything else you may do well ... required 2 considered? And does MIT (and other colleges) accept the new

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  pass/no record already. Basically, first term freshman year at MIT, you ... important reasons. 1. MIT classes are harder than high school classes, and people tend to get lower grades first term at MIT than they've ever gotten

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  to wrap your collective heads around: 1) MIT students really like to complain about how hard they're working, and 2) MIT students really like ... extracurricular activity when you first come to MIT, at least until you figure out

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Bonsai Kittens were a hoax started by MIT students ... after giving blood. MIT is really like that. Anyway, somebody had a ... figure out if you really like it or not. My second term at MIT, 18.100B

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “Hala’s Escape from Groundhog Day” season 18 episode 98

  

  it, Groundhog Day!  After about six weeks at MIT, I’ve started to feel ... [annotation note="one of MIT's 11 dorms"]Maseeh,[/annotation] eating the same ... is, life at MIT - and any university - will always be full of lectures

  • by Hala K. '29
  • October 13, 2025