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• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  competitions in order to get into MIT!) I remember standing on the field with the ... 's weird to see a team be better in your absence. At the Awards Ceremony ... representative of the invitee gets up to the microphone and (unless they don't want

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  then makes you want to beat your head against the wall. The Pythagorean ... back. Now I'm sitting in my room, typing, getting to read a little bit ... Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• FAQ / International applicants

  Do application materials have to be in English?

  professional service or a teacher in your school complete the translation, but you can't translate the material yourself. If your teacher translates any documents, please ask him/her to sign and date the translation
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  Facebook group that you get to join when you're a student here that's called ... to get stolen Person 3: Yeah, this is why no one goes around hanging ... Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 blogging scholarship

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit a school profile?

  Your school counselor (or equivalent) should submit the Secondary ... recommendation and a School Profile, describing your school's curriculum and community. Many international schools don't have a school profile. If your
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  MIT, you might be left wondering just what it is you've managed to get ... freshman student, I decided to jump in and get started on problem 4, just to ... thought. "Maybe that's just a curveball, just a tough one to get you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  . I can't wait to get back up north and start skiing with my family at ... that number isn't actually that high by comparison to the coastal cities ... winter. You have to know how to dress for the cold. A few simple rules

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  contemplating the prospect of having a class on Junior/Senior P/D/F. You get to do ... DID YOU KNOW? Prussian Monarch Frederick William used to kidnap ... royal guard. Like a freshman? Haha, no, you aren't allowed to do that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  also my one and only visit to the state. Get to know your professors ... feel that is cheating Show off your Boston sports pride ✅ I went to a ... Use your MIT ID to go to the MFA for free ✅ During the summer of my

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  - answers to all your questions. Promise. (I say that a lot, don't I?) ... Email lists can be the burden of my existence sometimes. I get all ... -line university (....hello, why would you send that to an at mit dot edu email

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  this, “I consider myself to belong to the following ethnic group(s) (check all that apply)”. At least for myself, this is an easy question to ... mark it and move on to the next part of the application. For some though

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  . But to each his own! Whatever floats your boat! Insert other clichés ... be more or less dangerous than it sounds, depending on your imagination ... 's something to be said for watching people do really random, stupid, amusing

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  to laugh when people get really mad at me. I’ve wanted to go to MIT ... only on the hard sand because I get tired easily on the soft stuff. If I ... best color in the box. From the ages of 3-10, my life goal was to be

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay ... do not do justice to how Clay-obsessed some Claymates are. I don

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  dishes). I want to share them with you, to the extent that I can share 1 ... this blog post I’m going to go back to grading. (“Grading” is a word ... Day five years ago. In the weeks and years preceding, getting into MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  , then your phone is gonna crash. Oops. So I've been using the break to ... different academically; you're still figuring everything out; you have to ... , but if you're in a frosh double, you have to vacate it for next year

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  sending your kids to a city college in Boston--apparently, MIT has hired ... . Maybe it was their first day. Ruth laughed heartily. I managed to get a ... to break your heart again. Oh dear, now this is turning into a bad

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds It's crunch time for college decisions.

  

  With 10 days to go until the May 1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time as any to the students who ... would you like to know about MIT? What are your lingering concerns? Etc.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  outside. Yes, you might not be able to feel your face or fingers. But you ... think it's important to let the people in your life know that you ... hussling it took to get out of the house. Everything worked out fine. I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  to run up until the Friday of that week. So basically, you're learning ... realize that your schedules may look like this (click 'em to make them ... , decompressed, and ready to get going again. And that's how you resurrect

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011