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• 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 / 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
• 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
• 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 / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  I live on the top floor of a small pile of donuts named Random Hall ... highlight them last"]this[/annotation] We do a lot of experimental baking and ... majors, but [annotation note="The math majors still form a plurality on

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  .S., getting on a flight to Milan was quite a struggle. All flights to the New ... customer representative for an hour and a half to keep the second leg of the journey valid, I booked a bus to NYC and booked it there. Hence, when I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• 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
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  Meet Dennis Hopper. That was a portrait taken of him by Charles Giuliano, published in 2007. I first saw Dennis in a pile of four art pieces ... think of him as a rejected reject though; instead, I think that he was

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  I had lunch at Harvard today, on the stone steps of a building like any other Harvard building I’ve never been in. I sat with a dear friend ... it must be a draw for many other people too. Yet somehow I made it to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  There comes a time in everyone's MIT experience, from the application ... the slight urge to huddle under a blanket with a warm cup of tea and ... third essay prompt on a college app. And it'll probably happen more than

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  horribly in a Mathcounts competition, so my mom and I decided that I should get a haircut. A lady at Walmart cut my hair boy-cut short and then my ... nice. So another lady at Walmart used a piercing gun (which requires

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  More than anything, I'd say that MIT offers a merciless crash course ... to do a UROP involving research that's tangential to my major... ...and one month later, I learned that a man named Guido van Rossum

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011