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• Blog / Admissions

  Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.

  

  closer to application deadlines I know that your anxiety level is on the ... this started, I'll post a question that I received many times while on ... the movie "Risky Business"? (Not really a question I got on the road

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  I've also been really busy working on problem sets. It'll just be ... circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what ... has a student holiday on Monday that the professors always seem to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  stuff. Day One: - we heard a talk from a postdoc, Lyle Simmons, on DNA ... thrown on us at Blue Man Group Thursday: - a tour of IPI pharmaceuticals ... going on that are pretty exciting, and for all of you '09s reading this, I

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  (I should note that I stole this title from a People article on Kate ... and nostalgia, and on with the nerdiness. Mike Short '05 (Course 22: Nuclear Engineering) -- the original person who put a laptop on his door, no

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The Admissions Staff It's my pleasure to introduce you to our current team.

  

  given on the previous year. We discussed things that worked really well, and set new goals for this cycle. I'm very excited to embark on my ... consultant (Did you know that your name tag should always go on the right? Do

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  on the web, as we've been in selection committee since last wednesday ... . I only wish we had room at MIT for more of the amazing people on the ... Bio... the list goes on. My question: what are your predictions for 100

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  IM sports totally rock

  

  without intramural sports. My four years playing on my dorm's C league ice ... . And I get just as excited when I put on my MIT Alumni jersey. I am a ... community out on the ice of Johnson Rink, or Jack Barry Turf, or Briggs Field

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  each have read this weekend, getting on the same page as far as what ... .mit.edu portal, catching up on email (I'm still behind), etc. Current music ... essay options on this year's application, including "Write an essay

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  With two Central Meetings down and two to go in the Bay Area, I'm much busier than I thought I'd be: behind on email, behind on blogging ... building a mini-Sukkah (MIT's is currently up on Kresge Oval, thanks to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT offer Army, Air Force, Navy ROTC?

  MIT is proud to offer Army, Air Force, and Naval ROTC programs on ... typically includes one or three hours of classroom training depending on year group and two hours a week of a hands-on, cadet or midshipman
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  doesn't have any impact on admission decisions. In fact, a large ... number or acronym. MIT's majors and minors are listed on our site. And the Registrar's Office has more details on majors and minors. And we know you
• FAQ / Transfer

  What does MIT consider for transfer admission?

  and calculus-based physics. Depending on your major, you may have ... on a case-by-case basis and depends on your course of study and
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  hanging out with your classmates. you go to classes with them, work on ... you're friends with, because you're on campus, and all the undergrads are on campus, or near campus. i spent my time with my classmates. i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  their room. Unlike murals on the walls, which generally have to be ... put on it to be special, to reflect the fact that it was the first time the door had ever been painted. I thought about it on and off for all

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  less than five days. I screamed in anguish with my friends on [annotation ... ,[/annotation] got a spontaneous tattoo of a bomber plane on my arm, perfected the art ... . There were parties on Killian Court and in lecture halls; there was music

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  planned on waking up at ten at the latest, but both me and my roommate slept ... . I tell him I’ll go after I work on it alone for awhile. I’m exhausted ... . I can talk to her on my way to the coffee shop without losing work

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  internships, travel, stay on campus or any combination of the above. So since ... , we were still focusing on adjusting to and getting used to college life ... 't really on either of our minds. And we were lucky enough to be in a position

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  Music Librarian. So read on ahead, to learn about MIT's Libraries ... place to sleep on campus. Now, I developed the ability to fall asleep on command on semi-annual car trips from Georgia to Louisiana, but I think this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  would depend on being able to directly compare 2 numbers and say things ... actually quite enjoyed spending time on the problems. This mix of curiosity ... ’d spend up to twenty hours working on every last detail of every problem. I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  , a sort of climax emerged. I was on the path to being part of Nigeria ... on most nights trying to finish up difficult olympiad problems while trying to catch up on voluminous notes from regular classes. I barely made

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013