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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Great Gatsby In all its pixelated glory

  

  by the Book, which can be found on the second floor of Hayden library. If you're a little sad that you can't actually be on campus to enjoy ... , you should go out to the library and get a copy now! It's a great read

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  means people are forced to "crowd" a room by turning a double into a ... /or speak to your dorm/floor chairs, they can try to accomodate your ... sticking my head out there to get a better camera angle. As you can tell

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  more intimate environment when getting to know your professors, find ... ,000 surrounded by strawberry fields. I knew I wanted to live in a more dynamic ... narrative is that even being a valedictorian "isn't enough" to get into MIT

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  .mitadmissions.org/topics/life/student_life_culture/blogger_application_2010.shtml">Blogger Application 2010 is due to me by email by Monday, August 2nd! Snap to it! AND NOW BACK TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED READING ... railway to save hundreds of miles of travel by taking more direct routes, it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  is only eight to twelve hours from Boston through New York City ... of your plane by half a plane, making me take another plane, filling ... One bus, for trying to shove a whole extra person into your van, which

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to ... fight with my advisor to get this to go through. I was ready. This is ... you ask to get a cookie she is more likely to say yes. My [annotation

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  know, MIT affiliates have access to the New York Times archive dating back to 1851, as well as tons of other newspapers and magazines? The New ... Library has that from 1943, as willing as I am to Greyhound it over to New

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  to Physics. She also had to state that her book had been reviewed by a ... get involved, but the following Romantic period was not as welcoming to ... think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  you'd get to meet and interact with your adviser every week. But this ... can't begin to tell you how quickly these past two years have gone by ... idea of what you're going to eat for lunch today (update post-lunch: a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  seemed to get more and more popular. And then, one day, I stumbled upon ... to see it. Here's the new one: In September 2004, the MIT admissions ... was so busy trying to make MyMIT live up to its promises that I had

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  eventually cropped down to the final prize winners. I know you're saying to ... Nobel!" More power to you, but here's what you're up against: In the category of ... lectures. The informal lectures are when you get a chance to actually hear

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  and staff who have agreed to take in a group of wide-eyed new cadets ... to ask how you're doing. I certainly can't speak for all of them since ... lecture, ask. The moment you start to get behind, ask for help. The instant

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  that there'd be enough new players to keep the guild going. and i care ... application after application to get rejection after rejection, and the game i ... some excellent puzzles. it's written by teammate, and i know lots of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  to get tickets but also find an opera buddy steadily dwindled, until I ... , we travelled to New York to the Metropolitan Opera, to go see Wagner ... [by Xenia Antipova '13] The very first time I heard of Richard

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  related to what I'm writing about. That particular one comes from Gilbert K. Chesterton. In any case, the entire point of that little tangent was to get on ... I would have a problem if Snively managed to get more posts up than me

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  - what you'll get involved with, how you'll contribute to our culture and ... simply need to get over). Once the EA apps are in, the questions and ... next year the applicants could try to get all stressed out a few months

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  by application of physical laws, and learning to complete projects on ... Engineering. This is a great way to get introduced to the field, with some ... talking about a fall term class she's helping to teach. She's been getting a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  to help clarify things a bit. Scores: We don't need to have your full ... , we will consider all of your new scores. MidYear Grades: We do not expect to see first quarter grades. If we need them, we'll call your school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide CSS Profile waivers?

  Some students of certain incomes are able to have the their CSS Profile fees waived by the College Board. MIT is not able to offer a fee ... to your family, you are welcome to wait until you learn if you've been
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  entirely new to me. And yet it’s a completely different feeling knowing that ... to get a coffee and read a book in front of the Winter Palace. I don ... This was originally going to be a post about how now that I’m in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020