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• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  all students, and is to be completed by you, the applicant.  The Report ... trimester grades).   You do not need to have a hardcopy of your updated transcript sent by your school, and even if your school has sent a hardcopy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  bottom of every blog entry. By clicking this link, you may choose to ... may have never stumbled across otherwise. You get to be the dude or dudette who provides the hook-up. And we get to spread our message to people

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  have a few one act plays to my name by the end of the semester. Also, the ... yoga/stretching type exercise to get us loosened up physically, and maybe an improv activity to get us loosened up mentally. Then we get to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  think you have an answer to a puzzle, you fill out a little form on the official Hunt website, and they call you to check your answer. As the operator, I take other people's answers and call them in, so I also get to

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  openings website, just to get a sense of what opportunities are out there and ... schools.  If you've got the will, it's comparatively easy to get a research ... departments, nigh impossible) to get a research position in your first year

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  .org to register. There is a randomized lottery to get in, but if you want ... from around the globe. Over a 24-hour period from September 17th to 18th ... 've opened up their website, then you already started it! To continue, you have

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  companies founded by MIT graduates would get together and form a country, it ... zones away, I had to throw myself out of bed by 6:45 am. But on the plus side, I got to kick back on a couch sipping on an ice tea while browsing

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  onto his website to watch his mailbox for the arrival of a big, beautiful ... was a no-brainer. My anticipation was compounded by the fact that I had a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  idea to wander around by yourself at night.) General stuff There's a ... downloaded from iTunes and buying furniture for the new apartment to do a ... websites. I spent a great deal of the summer before my freshman year at MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  hidden Best-By date on a bottle. Things meant to  be consumed proclaim, "I ... This semester, I decided to take 21W.762 Poetry Workshop taught by Ed ... quietly in a corner as we argue by Cami Mejia (Sestina) Untitled by Dien

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  drove home at 3:03pm and made a mental plan of everything I wanted to do ... background, my parents immigrated to America and opened a small Chinese ... .html"]deep history to Americanized Chinese food,[/annotation]but in short, it’s a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  call from a deferred applicant, there's nothing that I see to be lacking ... ) would love to have in their student body. Honestly. A frequent line to ... knowing that one year from now, you'll be getting ready to take some time of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  the MyMIT website, so be sure to check that out when it gets posted ... 't write much here. On Friday, I went to Charm School. I had a hard time finding someone to go with, since people tend to get offended when you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  ="course 6 (EECS) has a nice program that allows you to work towards your ... want to do. In a way, things do feel a bit lighter though. I’m only ... on my research and to [annotation note="to be a teaching assistant

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the ... overseen by primarily in-house curators (as opposed to inviting external ones ... took me about four hours to get through all of the works on display

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  easiest way to get a UROP, most people will be more willing to hire you and ... , preservation and restoration of early films, and (c) produce a website to draw in ... options when doing a UROP: - UROP for Pay: Up to $1,250 per semester, which

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  that just walking to Next is the faster option. I have a skateboard, but ... classes. I don't want to fork over cash for an electric scooter or a bike, neither do I want to pay for a Bluebike ride for an ~8 minute walk every

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  A huge perk to living at MIT is living right across the river from ... late October, monsters and ghouls love to get together and dance. Thus ... correspond to the music, but will be based on various signals. (Don’t get it

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  video was to compete, I would have to get a great view. Shuffling my way ... as by volunteers in the audience. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a ... to the ALS Association donation page. The trend has been questioned by

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  ... For a while, I really felt like a failure that I didn't get in ... applying to things and places I didn't think I was actually qualified to get ... that happens here...I was told by a lot of people (very reasonably) told

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018