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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  about all of the airport delays and closings, including O'Hare in Chicago ... you design a pinball machine for a nursing home?" Kevin '11: "No! I designed an arcade machine for a hospital." D'oh! So close, yet so far. 11

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  while you think about doing part a of problem 3. Peel the eggs, rinse ... from WILG taught me how to do this. It’s a great way to get meat and ... had a massive potluck Thanksgiving dinner with our housemaster Nina and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  National Merit. Bad news: I got a 1430 on the SAT I. NOTE:I do not ... a knower of MIT-related things, I have been asked many times how ... 're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  and used Google Maps to go on a 'virtual scavenger hunt' around those ... I'm the undergraduate assistant for a Freshman Learning Community ... .5-hour meetings each week; there's a Food of the Month, Film of the Month

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What kind of things can I do during IAP?

  If you think MIT is all work and no play, let us take you for a spin ... spring and fall semesters, the Independent Activities Period is a special ... years, IAP has given MIT students, faculty, and staff a unique opportunity
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  In my junior year of high school, I had a phase of telling everyone about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... desire to be quirky with a nonstandard prom dress. Unfortunately, my senior

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the ... season with Alex S. '13, who was here to represent Boeing, Irina O. '15 and ... we, um, don't). They are a half-hour walk from MIT, by 3 pm or before

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  How do I apply to the Women’s Technology Program?

  WTP is a women-focused program aimed at empowering students from groups that are historically underrepresented in engineering by providing a rigorous four-week summer academic experience that introduces 20 high school
• FAQ / International applicants

  Do application materials have to be in English?

  All application materials must be in English. You may have a professional service or a teacher in your school complete the translation, but you can't translate the material yourself. If your teacher translates
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  To give you a flavor (well, many flavors) for what MIT students do ... the nearby Pacific Crest Trail to do some backpacking. Cool! Lisa was a ... as you reply to this email? I am currently replying to you as I eat a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  Arthur Highway. To get to school, I would take a jeepney up MacArthur to this footbridge, cross the street, then walk for two minutes. On a good day, the trip took around twenty minutes to travel a little less than three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  : Ultra-slim eh? yea ok, that's about as ultra-slim as Rosie O'Donnell at a ... up a heaping dose of pain in the form of academic expectations. If you ever want to know the surface area of a golf ball with radius 3cm covered

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT if I am not selected as a QuestBridge Finalist?

  If you applied for the QuestBridge Match but were not selected as a Finalist, you are still welcome to apply to MIT through our Regular Action cycle using our application portal. If you are not a Finalist, you must
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  This semester, I'm taking a graduate class in General Relativity that ... tag). Never, in a dozen years of pre-college schooling, was the sin of ... learn the definition of a standard deviation until six weeks ago

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  A few students pointed me towards this piece in the Wall Street ... . Why would schools do this? For the money, mostly, because if you make ... “development cases,” will argue that this makes the school a better place for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  too much in particular, but was helping to create a “31.4 Things to Do ... do work for a bit then head off to sleep.  When I look back and read ... how we didn’t know what to do. I sit in the ESP office for a while

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  I am a huge reader. I love hearing stories and telling them. I love ... storytelling so much that it's become a pillar of my identity — it's why I chose to blog. A major obstacle to if and how people read is discovering

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  there is the Career Fair itself. A ton of companies (~250 -- see the ... entry, when I google "careers office" the MIT Careers Office is the third ... colleges right now, odds are that you're not looking for a career, but it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high ... from the smell of newly cut grass Tangy, sweet, like a fresh Saturday ... like a French ballade Constantly written, never finished.   I am from

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  At orientation, we received a list of "101 Things to Do Before You ... without high-speed internet connections...I realize that it will take a ... been to a Bruins game, but two of my best friends, Anna '08 and Maria '08

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007