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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  , and I even got to read some of my own work on my friend Valentina C. '16 ... . Those are some of the happy things, and there will be more happy things to ... easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  gives you a few silent hours to have personal help and you find a group of ... .033. This is one of the few resources that I'll swear by and continue to use ... recitation and office hours. This is a compiled list of the resources that I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  really complicated I thought it might be worthwhile to offer some of my ... that it’s easy to lose count of them all. Sadly we will ultimately say "no" to an amazing bunch of applicants. But those that we don’t admit

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  .) It's important to keep in mind the loud harmony of Tim's pipe as ... the Court, but first had to establish the location of a prop. He ... (Note: to everyone who has emailed or commented with questions, I got

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  ” neighborhood, closer to a grocery store, and with a greater density of coffee ... ’ll have to edit out the bulk of them for brevity. In the summer monsoons ... most of the day, at home only to change, shower, eat, sleep.  # I didn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  some of you overachievers) to figure out your hobbies and interests. Many ... . There’s still plenty of time to learn. It only feels like it ... thought I might want to play the piano. But I saw a lot of my parents

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  to thousands of degrees in the furnace. Talk about defective! I tried ... glassblowing, we used glass frit – tiny shards of glass – to apply the colour ... ) to me[/caption] While one of the instructors excitedly explained how

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  history of nerd culture, are you guys doing anything to celebrate Pi Day ... minimize harm to the rest of the Solar System. The trolley is traveling at 1 ... completely honest, there was a part of me that expected Blood Moon Fest to be

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  a rush, I find it helpful to do a quick scan of the entire dining hall ... immediately with a side of fresh strawberries (assuming you're early enough to ... half. Serve with a drizzle of Sriracha to taste. But if that's too

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most ... the middle of May, after we've received and processed the responses from ... waitlist in the past few years, we admitted very few this year (due to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  I thought it would be good to share here too for those of you who may ... graduated, this is the type of post-college wisdom I might share from time to ... that much. By sophomore year of college, I had to declare my major. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  game to play. Each team has three to four players on at a time, each of ... Every few seasons, the hallowed concrete walls of Simmons Hall come alive with the echoes of laughter and plastic pucks and the ritual shouts

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  -styled notification at the end of the Infinite, I challenged myself to find as many ... ten years of editable knowledge - free to the public, but perhaps at the ... In honor of Wikipedia's 10th birthday (January 15th), MIT celebrated

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  finally got around to reading a bunch of articles from the MIT News Office ... of media, from USA Today to CNN and space.com. Full article at http ... nice local laboratory to study the formation of and conditions in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  applications so I don't have to survive on ramen alone in my first year of grad ... is, to the best of my knowledge, particularly strong in ... (read: cheap; there were no cheap tickets from Columbus to Boston last

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  the last of my six Course 9 elective classes, and it's looking to be one ... 'm dying to know.) 9.71 - Functional MRI of High-Level Vision. Remember when ... , having never taken advantage of the "hey kids, look at my schedule!" post

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  (words of wisdom). To those who have heard rumors of a clandestine ... MIT 2012 chat room (commercial: if you would like to be part of this ... registration, of course, was to find the admissions office. I quickly scanned the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  like that. It's meant to be more of a conversation, a give and take. What ... of school. Think about why you like to do these activities. What is it ... applying to MIT. Do a little research on the web, and think of some questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Roller Coasters and Dance Parties Sunday was the East Side party! Lots of loud music and prefrosh!! Still, no fun.

  

  about, including one of the new bloggers! I'm so grateful to be here at ... This past Sunday was the East Side party, where the denizens of the East Side and prefrosh (now frosh!?!?)  from all around MIT came to see

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Transfer Decisions Will Be Sent Today see title, more or less

  

  applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed ... . As in past years, hundreds of students applied, and we only had space to admit fewer than 20 students. It is a difficult process: as usual

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2014