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• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  , better to be thorough. 12. A bathroom caddy. Depending on you live, you ... connect to my laptop, which is much easier on my eyes. However, running programs like Matlab and Solidworks is absolutely painful on a laptop, so I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  embarked on a journey to warmer, sunnier lands down south. Two weeks before ... proximity to so many different countries make it so easy to hop on trains or busses and travel around all throughout Europe on a budget. I had an

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  one is expected to spend at least EIGHTEEN HOURS A WEEK on work. I don ... undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or ... classes within that department. The idea is to get some depth in a HASS

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  asked some of you to sit on it, in 2 days flat we'd have a flawless 30 ... the beginning of January. We are still not 100% set on a name... Here ... It is clear to me that I COULD NEVER WRITE ENOUGH ABOUT THE

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  successful; working gives me a reference frame to force my thoughts into some ... folding.   To get back to the thermodynamics analogy, I’m a little particle ping-ponging inside of a box. I also want to get out of this box

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  touch," Kreminski continued. New to the US, he blazed a path ... spare time, he would listen to cassette tapes on pronunciations. A teacher ... With Orientation set to begin for the new MIT freshmen this weekend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  aiming for a class of about 1130 students this year. Based on our estimates ... fewer than 4% of applicants a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  Students and Alumni Awesome! I love that MIT is putting more of a focus on ... Labs is a new startup incubator/accelerator program for MIT startups ... to get follow-on investments as part of their seed round (up to an

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  something to report. If you're in a school that doesn't have midyear grades ... the best place for any new updates you want us to know about. Remember ... . I know that’s not a lot, but do your best to be concise. How do I

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  ! Even if you have no new grades to report, you should still complete the ... this from students with something to report. If you're in a school ... best place for any new updates you want us to know about. Remember, the

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form some things you should know

  

  ! Even if you have no new grades to report, you should still complete the ... this from students with something to report. If you're in a school ... for any new updates you want us to know about. Feel free to write in

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  like I’ve grasped a new emotion. Admissions essays are intimidating. You ... 's mission to make the world a better place Collaborative and cooperative ... willingness to handle failure Hands-on creativity Intensity, curiosity, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  ON BIRTHRIGH IT WAS SO GREAT!!  Birthright is a free trip to Israel for ... back in New York, and this is definitely a new experience being on a new ... new home for myself that I never want to leave. Anyways, enough about

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  sick on a long weekend, so I had quite a long time to rest and recover ... abscess on a weekend too, which allowed me to attend all my lectures this ... right, mom. Getting sick really does suck.) To end on a positive note

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  like to go to Haymarket on Saturday mornings and make a nice cheap ... a) sitting in the Common reading the newspaper on my lunch break and b ... 's stop and Park Street, and a crowded shuttle bus wasn't on the list of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  great about being a Bomber. Being able to feel at home anywhere on the ... friends on Burton Third is a reminder of how lucky I am to live with such a ... people that I’m a Bomber, especially people I talked to in high school

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  The UA Committee on Orientation has come out with a report on ... you get to college, student government (sort of a misnomer in the UA ... . :) A lot of what is in the report is based on the data we collected

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  made online as a prefrosh even before CPW, thanks to the new admissions ... didn't need to be "sold" on MIT any longer. Compared to the penetration ... things we'd talk about until the wee hours of the night ... yes, even on a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  weekend, but those people are from Connecticut or New York. The trip to ... to the rescue. You see, this summer, my sister threw her phone off a ... first one is funner to say. (Funner. It is a word. (Also, nested

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  was able to talk to and learn from a whole new group of people. To my ... , in our freshman year at MIT, but I think our story really starts on a ... time, I didn't want it to be true – who wants to spend a whole year

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020