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• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  academic departments, or courses, which are often referred to by their course ... Here's one less thing to worry about when applying to MIT: Students apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  Since it's summer tour season and my path to work keeps getting ... refer to rooms within buildings by their numbers. It's kind of bewildering ... students in the winter -- once you get to the Infinite in the winter, you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  if rupi kaur went to mit milk and funny

  

  follow you i wish i knew your name but for now i’ll call you by your ... _hidden]every time i get an email from you my heart skips a beat how i wish you would say those three little words three little words to change my life

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  week, he gently reminded me, "You chose to live here in Massachusetts". To which I thought, "You're darn right, pal!" But of course, now that I live in Cambridge, MA, how do I come to terms with the fact that I will

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  Square in Cambridge on the Red Line; you can get to the airport by subway ... visited each of EC's ten floors to get a better idea of which living group ... activities were made available by each hall to aid in that purpose. A few

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  World AIDS Day 2008 Spread the word.

  

  organizations from around the world come together to bring attention to the global ... around campus, including a "film" screening by lbgt@MIT. Tonight at 5 ... gets infected with HIV/AIDS. Unfortunately, you all aren't actually here

  • by Snively '11
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  . From novices who are just getting started to experienced people looking ... more about technical theater just by listening to and talking with the ... January and four weeks is not a lot of time to get a production up and

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 6

  

  ), and getting ready to head off to my usual Tuesday night trivia contest ... Today I got in early, giving me a chance to read my copy of the New ... days, followed by several weeks of solidifying the class, selecting the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  reminded me of my own experience getting piercings my freshman year. To me ... gained from going to college and getting my first paid (on-campus) job ... lobe piercings. For a while, I had wanted to get more piercings, but

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  seven places to P-Set: 1. Quincy Market, Upstairs by the GAP This is ... sidetracked by watching dogs chase squirrels up trees. I come here to work on my ... down this one road that was awfully hilly. To get to the point of the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  basically is looking for? And how can I actually get to catch the eye of the ... for another school, by all means submit it to us in the "optional essay ... around 550 words. Are the admissions counselors going to get mad over that

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  't actually that easy to lose getting into routines is hard falling out of ... somewhere that's not boston. i want to get out of boston. living in LA ... my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  (and by extension, you) is paying a gazillion dollars to have a top ... ?) before you can graduate. I am not advising you to finish your PE classes by ... going to wah-wah-wah through complaints like, "What if I get a bad grade

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  by working with each other, being introduced to some material in class ... . We changed our method of ball deployment from one by one to all at once ... when it started getting rough. Now that we had a strategy it was time to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  hours on a MONDAY. And I got to sleep by 1AM, and then I woke up in time to get to my UROP at 10. Eight hours of sleep. SKILLZ, I TELL YOU ... sometimes I get on my computer to check my mail and somehow spend five hours

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  WRAP-UP! As a favor to everybody who worked on the puzzle remotely ... it came right down to the wire. We were frantically solving puzzles as ... . I'll post answers to the puzzles you guys worked on and some to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  into them if you really want to. If you don't get your first choice HASS-D, there are usually open spots by the first day of class, and you can go to ... . Also, how did you manage to get your experimental procedures done within

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  to the Bay Area, followed by a trip to the Rocky Mountains and finally ... answer. Getting out on the road to meet you is one of our favorite times of ... America to meet with prospective applicants and parents in more than 70

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  up for games. i've been getting burnt out by many things, these days ... to live a year longer. if i could recruit other people, get them to run for officership, get them to see my vision, maybe it'd last a few more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  Last night the MIT Sport Taekwondo Club sponsored a demonstration by ... decided to head down to the athletic center to check it out. I happened to be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005