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• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  research has shown these tests, in combination with a student’s high school ... informative and consistent measure of a student’s academic potential in a world ... simply not a part of our process anymore.   How does this apply to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  application, here are a few tips, notes, and words of wisdom: Submit ... of documents right now, so there's a good chance we have received ... validation errors with their essays, taking more than a couple of minutes to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

      My friend Robert V. '20 is a Course 6-3 (Computer ... has TA'd an interesting IAP class called 6.148, a web development class and competition. He's a really smart guy, and I found out about this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  't cool. Things happen. For example, you might get a validation error ... interview is not a required part of the application (and students whose ... ) who needs one. Using a fee waiver will not negatively impact your

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  Spotify Wrapped day and the festivities surrounding it happened a ... represents them. A common complaint this year (and last year) was that the so-called personalized stats were just wrong or only partially correct. I for one was a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  many questions about making friends in college that I even wrote a blog ... by joining a student community, most notably greek life, the entire ... anything remotely close to "greek life", or in my case, a sorority, in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  During first semester I published a nice little entry about my ... ? Let's go on a tour! High School Yearbook For those nostalgic moments ... knowledge. Seriously, SUCH a good book. Physics E&M Book Horribly

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  I really like learning languages. And MIT has been a really good place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it ... try out. Then, during my sophomore IAP, I took a Spanish conversation

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  a cursed follow up to this post. note that these are based off ... a table. nature inspires you and you love the outdoors, but you're so ... . you're a charcuterie board devotee and have at least one weird niche

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  student, you can become an Art Scholar and receive a scholarship for a class ... a scholarship.) I missed drawing. I used to draw a lot as a kid; I got in trouble a few times for doodling on my desk. But during my time

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  up dropping my UROP--a story for another time--I started cooking. A lot. This is a fairly common thing that students do during IAP, because it ... at making actual food. It usually ends up being a lot more [annotation

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  A couple nights ago, while my friends and I were wasting away in ... someone read aloud: My name is Cami. I'm a lil bi filipina girl from LA county, from a city about 30 minutes outside of LA called Norwalk. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  coming soon) into a new one in the heart of Boston. Unbeknownst to us ... 't realize there was no kitchen at all, just a sink, a microwave, and some ... listing said it had a kitchen. Secondly, we knew the bathrooms were shared

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  As I’ve sort of mentioned in previous blogs, I am a big fan of cooking. I was once on a meal plan for about two weeks at the start of my ... myself,[/annotation] watching a lot of cooking shows or YouTube videos as

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  So first there was Peru, where we ate really good food (Exhibit A ... fog shrouding the surroundings. Exhibit A: Maido - Japanese ... app prototypes in the span of just a few weeks. Their companies ranged

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  . One thing I really like about MIT is that there is a HASS (humanities ... classes to graduate, an average of one a semester. I waved around that ... , 3 my fourth. Each student must focus on a HASS subject eventually

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  German language class, down a steep hill with a beautiful view of the ... train station, cross the Lahn river, and enter a building across the ... . I was a blogger until very recently, so hopefully you haven

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  Hey all! It's been a while. I've had a busy last month: 0. I said ... solving puzzles using a novel game mechanic, although IMHO, Braid is way ... metaphorical plot, it's a true inspiration for my secret pipe dream of becoming

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  the summer is a beautiful thing. No psets. No exams. No pressure to cram ... 'm laughing with a friend, in his/her room, and not because I'm moping over an ... out over a few posts, but thought I'd begin with two stories: one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  musical, but I assumed that when I came to MIT, music would play a much ... decided I wanted to be in an instrumental group and a vocal group. I didn ... , there was the Chamber Chorus, the elite group which required a prepared

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011