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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  effect is like when you're at a party, and you're talking to someone, and they're desperately trying to get away from you, but they can't because ... , and that this is going to make me either a good scientist or a raving

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  offered to temper my usual Course VI nerditude by writing about her ... contamination of critical water sources. By providing the means to basic hygiene ... fun. We get to spray each other with water while prototyping our pump

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are GIRs?

  subjects to help you explore your anticipated major. MIT’s GIRs ensure that ... social sciences to getting rigorous training within their area of ... the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. During your first
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  Intermezzo by Sally Rooney A: really great, would recommend to ~anyone ... strongly recommend to a friend Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut A ... relationship between Peter and Ivan, and I get that Margaret was supposed to

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  40. In lighter news, by this I mean I'm going to talk about things ... actual deadline for the senior thesis that I am now desperately trying to make. That is, next Thursday, May 21th. That is, if I want to graduate on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  proceed: You may use your QuestBridge application to apply through Early ... .) You may use your QuestBridge application to apply through Regular Action ... matched with a binding school and must attend your Match school. You could
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  woah woah woah, hold on Fiona, its going to get a whole lot worse in the ... minutes total, no matter where I’m going: I get to leave later and not be ... part of the neck out in order to “deflate” your puffy marshmallow self

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP classes you're taking - don't surrender to senioritis and stop doing ... practice your conversational skills by telling you to describing your family

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  Chris Peterson "Damn you for being so inspiring, you're going to get me ... .  "Perfect!" I thought to myself, "I did MIT, I can do this! Besides, I get 6 ... order to register for the Dopey Challenge you have to prove that you're

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  uncertain coworker. By the time I grab my sandwich and get to the door, both ... looking all over for you, kid!" booms Satan. "Let's get you back to hell ... roast chicken-mashed avocado-jicama sandwich and talking to my sister on

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  , including one where you get to build furniture for your room (a picture of a ... seminar also serves as your freshman advisor. This way, you get to know the ... your advisor has been to some of the best restaurants in Boston and loves

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  veteran players! How to play defense by being on the open side of my player ... getting an education here, it was equally important to build good habits ... to be swamped by work. But I realize that exercising, being outside

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston ... to come after. There are songs that I’ve [annotation note="i wanna get ... person adapted to a new environment in ways I don’t even fully notice much

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  choose another college to attend by May 1. What should I do about the May 1 ... of the waitlist, do I have to go to MIT? What about financial aid? You're ... 'll have time to consider your decision before letting us know one way or the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  2018. I keep having new ones, and I want some way to document why I like ... known to be a “cheater” in the ring, and would try to get Chavo to fight ... furthermore, I would have to be lent music by my friends!] Future Teens was

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  00t!) with my big Jessica (a girl from my sorority) at 10, get to the ... ... So now it's 3:30 and I'm trying to get down and finish this annoying ... - this is where we get paired to our "big" as in "big sister" (sophomore or

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3 We have extended the RA deadline. Happy Holidays!

  

  to submit your deadline. If your application is ready to go, click that button, or stamp that mail! The closer you send in your application to the ... Tracking. Please note that you do not need to express mail or overnight your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 3, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  school, we stressed about not being qualified enough to get into the ... qualified enough to get a job, and tried registering for extra classes only to ... [annotation note="feel free to vent about your application

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  people go through rough times and directing students to the proper resources at MIT Medical and on campus to get the help students may need ... 'm hoping to get it published so we can have cute little coping with anxiety

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  Link on the top to get more of an idea of the classes I'm taking. The links ... sophomore who is still unsure what course to major in. But the reality is not ... graduate as so, but this semester I'm taking: 1.00 - Introduction to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012