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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  tinged with a deceptive dearth of day to day drudgery (how do you get a ... subsequently danced a jig while waiting to be swept away to MIT, then envisioned ... , incomprehensibly massive on a personal scale yet in turn cosmologically insignificant

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  An Exchange Student enrolls at MIT to take classes as a non ... application to apply as a visiting student. Instead, individual faculty members must invite you to their lab to engage in research. If there is a
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  attire was "encouraged," so I sucked it up and put on a dress. I left ... . Adelaide sits on the floor in the hallway to strap on her heels. Adelaide is ... As a lot of you probably know, the MIT class ring is a little more

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  those of you up to speed on the course numbers), I’m pursuing a Theater ... robot, never coded on my TI-89, never watched Star Wars. I did not get a ... the campus life center, gently harassed a staff member to let me use his

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  I wrote a little while ago about a hack on the Dot raising awareness ... . Installation runs November 11th to 17th Commissioned by the MIT Committee on ... doing great on the climate change front. Here's another one by the same

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  Barbecue. At lunch, we had a visitor: Akash, a student admitted to the MIT ... chatting, Akash got a call on his mobile phone from another MIT '09, Anthony. Ben answered the phone and they chatted for a little while... On our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  finally complete! Djuena then taught us the lyrics to a song in the Ticuna ... accompanied us on indigenous percussion (such as a washboard-like instrument ... an hour. The rehearsal stretched on for so long that we didn’t get to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  was always trying to process too many bits of life at once. It's a ... challenge because I never had the mental space to reflect on my situation. I ... determined to get good grades and maintain a healthy social life, so I traded

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

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  ;dr not actually, but I was CONVINCED a trip I had planned to Italy was ... thought I aced, passed a test I thought I got a 30% on, and had no clue on ... everyone has to take to graduate"]GIRs[/annotation] and a class essentially

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  students to take advanced classes out of a sense of competition, rather than ... school or working 20-30 hours a week to support their family – or who come ... students to worry less about this question. Half a century ago, B. Alden

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  to the mix, whenever I take a study break to call my mom and complain ... morning, as one of the Starbucks-ers called 9-1-1 on a sleepy dude who was ... wore a t-shirt nonetheless, it's only because I have a jacket to wear

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a ... @mitfgp on Instagram to stay up to date with all the fun things we’re doing). I also wanted to say a huge a welcome to the Class of 2024! This

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  between properties, and a giant tear in a friend's jeans as she tried to ... impression that finding a place to live during the school year would be easy ... occupants that was below 7, bedrooms too small to turn into doubles, a weird

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  /principal to leave spaces blank on the form. Please ask your counselor ... Many international applicants don't have a school counselor. The school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken Burrito for the Lab Rat’s Soul Because a personalized blog entry is just like five dollars.

  

  ... let's do it the harder way." Still, it wasn't a day to remember. I didn ... -shelteresque pantry are now looking pretty spare, so I decided to indulge myself in a ... Goosebeary's yesterday, I was down to a mere two dollars in cash. Luckily

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  excellent time! The one thing her post is missing is a section called "how to get home when you oversleep and you have a morning train to catch" so I ... – like, 5AM late – talking to students on Saturday night of CPW. When I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  reasons, and I was responding to an email on my phone at the end of a busy ... to occupy it, one thing is constant: email. During my two years on ... announcing large social events to publicizing important surveys on campus

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  -sounding extracurriculars!” But come on, you are still a teenager; it is okay to have ... to convince an admissions committee that you are a good fit for their ... . Fortunately, to make your life easier, MIT published a page about what it values

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  to hike Mt. Everest, but when the high temperature for the day has a ... obligations and a near-empty campus. It’s pretty cool to be able to focus completely on basketball, and have extra time to do all of the things I put off

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  restaurant on the 56th floor of a building overlooking the city to one side and ... important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was ... Coyoacán, a neighborhood on the southwest side of the city famous for dense

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025