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• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  prepared by a gourmet chef. The retreat was a mix of bonding and business ... -out was amazing, considering we’re a month into the term and the first round ... spent the past 24 hours at the Endicott House , an MIT owned mansion in a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I defer my enrollment?

  years. After confirming your intent to enroll in MIT's first-year class, you will be asked to submit a formal request for deferment to the Dean of Admissions. Such requests are usually granted (indeed, often
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  /Chris Perry) It's pretty much felt that way since the beginning of this ... a lot of work all the sudden, and it's terrible. Ask my roommates, I ... content of the class. But you should probably ask me how I feel about it

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years ... middle of Dorchester one July afternoon. After gathering up the courage, I ... crossing the Harvard Bridge in search of Krispy Kreme's new Cookies 'n' Cream

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  resident of [annotation note="third floor of the east parallel of the dorm ... ="second floor of the west parallel of East Campus"]Putz[/annotation] swap rooms ... immerse themselves in the habits and cultures of their host hall and send

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  laptop charger and both of our laptops are near dead.  The Sidequest ... hard lab, but we realized that basically all of the framework needed to ... all of the coding and i can do all of the blogging :[]  ] We both

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  advice and chat about the UA (see fourth paragraph), of which he was President back in the day. :) First, a trivia question: the name of this blog ... Hello to all of you readers! I'm the latest student admissions

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  Neha is a male) was the team leader of FIRST at her school, and basically ... pass out of 18.01, the first level of calculus, and take any of the 18 ... until the end of freshman year, at which point we can declare "undeclared

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  ... ...the first thing you think about is a certain protein used in recombinant ... grade is comprised of 4 exams. I've been getting A-'s in the exams in that ... blog will have to be the outlet of my ramblings till then =p Just like

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  hand size. you can have more than seven cards but at the end of a turn ... ended up double the length of my current longest post. so from the perspective of number of words written, i've written the equivalent of a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  My ML model finished training right after I finished this post technically i *am* doing work right now

  

  Junior year was a milestone for me because it was the first time ... would be doing this kind of stuff in college, she would be excited and (hopefully) proud of me. But, it's definitely not what she would've imagined it

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  ’s Women’s Soccer team! I was the first in my family of four kids (who all ... Roberts Field for the first of what would be thousands of times.  My Advice ... hopefully some of the overall principles and advice can still apply! My

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  group of friends who understand me. I'm continuing on with the Design ... Symposium, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the MIT AeroAstro department ... , speaking from the audience during the Q/A session of the astronaut panel on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  the level of distinction. List any non-scholastic distinctions you have won since entering high school and indicate the level of distinction ... tried to make the distinction. One way to think of it would be this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  One of the stereotypes of sci/tech/engineering schools like MIT is ... they crack under the pressure of my enormous good looks. The pimples on ... Wartman to learn the ins and outs of dining etiquette and table conversation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  process, we must also be careful to provide a broad spectrum of the MIT ... decided to add an Early Action (EA) round for a couple of reasons - first ... (in the interest of full disclosure) you should know that we will be

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  . Amy Smith gave an excellent presentation about some of the challenges of ... interesting idea. We got to see sparks. Lots of them. Big ones. The best ... inductor was a little disappointed that no one ran screaming out of the room

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  MIT? At the first fencing meet of this year, I started off very strong ... , I decided to answer a bunch of questions from the blogger bot that ... actually haven’t really had anything noteworthy in this arena - the first

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female cats, and all three of the cats and the dog must be Russian. There are ... tweets. While I love the revision that goes into most of my blog posts, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  than flying home during the winter. This is actually the first time I ... carousel and, to my delight, it was the first one out! My parents and I left ... , it's just not mental or technical. It's physical labor of the purest

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009