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• Blog / Admissions

  Reading Some final notes before decisions are posted.

  

  Jones: It's More Than A Job Marilee Jones: Sending You My Best Also: Bryan Nance A Post For Parents and It's All About the Process, Bryan Don ... Imagination, Laura The Moment of Truth And a few numbers: we received a record

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Pi Day! 3.1415926535...

  

  Just a little humor to keep us all smiling. HAPPY PI DAY (the ... unbending. Oh, number Pi Oh, number Pi You are a number very sweet, Oh ... r squared, A half a circle and you're there, Oh, number Pi Oh, number

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  for the first month of the semester. Indeed, it was a sad day. For 1.5 hours three times a week, hundreds of students fill 10-250 (one of the ... that prevents you from bleeding to death after a measly paper cut

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  After a not-so-brief hiatus, I'm back at the Institute! Over the ... -clean personal environment, extra sheetrock improves soundproofing, a rooftop garden insulates the building and offers a quiet haven for residents

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  TBP Dinner Sex@MIT is the most-watched video on CNN.com! (but it's not pornography!)

  

  a Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering Honors Society) dinner (courtesy of Sam '07, a nationally honored engineer) to hear a musicologist (rastrologist?) deliver a speech on economics. And in other news, Mollie '06

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  When most people say they have a UROP, you can immediately imagine them sitting at a lab bench while wearing a white lab coat, safety glasses, and gloves. If Anna Teytelman, a sophomore in Management Science

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  Boston on Friday night. We expected to hit a lot of traffic, considering ... did face was while waiting to fill up our tank at a NY rest stop for a whopping $3.19 per gallon, which was a good deal at the time. It seemed that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  this curious flyer outside of the Athena cluster in building 24 (aka "a computer lab on campus"). I particularly love the warning "this is not a dating show, but a competition." Okay, so maybe it's a little

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  , and we took a mini-trip to Santa Cruz, Capitola, Monterey, and ... England Aquarium, which is in Boston, just a few subway stops away from MIT ... call it, Velocity We woke up insanely early to go on a fishing trip. I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  Housing is a huge part of undergraduate life at MIT. You choose where you live, and each living group is a community with its own distinct ... choose to join a conventional meal plan with access to dining halls, or you
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does my school submit recommendation letters and transcripts?

  competitive applicants will provide one from a math/science teacher, and one from a humanities, social science, or language teacher. We also require materials from your school counselor (typically including your transcript, a school
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I’ve completed more than 2.5 years of college?

  than two and a half years (five terms) of college may not be eligible ... study area or intended program of study at MIT. If a summer semester is considered a semester at your institution, we will consider it a semester. We
• Blog / How to Food

  A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating or, every food picture I have ever posted from pika

  

  , strange instrument concerts, and sitting in a dark room listening to music ... homemade tamales, traditional Ethiopian food, sushi, and a Chinese New Year ... ? a relic: see #3 on this list of weird toys.)   flour toasting

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  Listen: writing well is hard. It is hard for a lot of different ... to guess. Sometimes it is hard because you have a lot of stories ... tumble out of you, all stiff and angular like a box of bent pipes. But

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  later and create a new Public folder and put everything back in your Athena locker, the damage will still be done. So here's a lesson for you ... have done this a thousand times before and twelve times already that

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  I've been gone from the blogs for a little while, since this semester has been quite a difficult one and I haven't really had the headspace to ... this meager offering. I'd like to write a happy post. Some light fare

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  Area Four (A4) is a popular pizzeria/cafe near MIT. Known for their wood-fired pizza made from a 10-year-old sourdough starter, A4 is the go-to pizza spot for many MIT students. But not me. I am A4's biggest hater

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  A credit card is something I, in theory, knew I needed eventually. Apparently a credit score is a thing that people care about here. The thing is ... pay for it directly instead of using a credit card. One reason to get a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  id="attachment_84903" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] a basic rundown of the process in obtaining a UROP[/caption] It's a great opportunity ... notice you in the first place can be a daunting task. But it doesn't have

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  Last Tuesday was a big day for MIT's class of 2019. After two years ... 's a pop culture icon. It's a beacon of kinship between alumni. It's an ... 's sophomores, it's a reminder that we're already halfway through our time here...a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017