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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and ... I was done, though, I had a lot of residual energy to do ... 's gonna feel so, so good to finally have it taken care of after this

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzle: Are we going to win? another puzzle to stimulate your mind

  

  you one hint for now, use this website for help. I'll be travelling this weekend, so I probably won't get a chance to post the solution until Monday, but until then, have an awesome weekend! Are we going to win

  • by Bryan
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  Well, my two weeks of no IAP agenda have come to a close and I ... anything else you might need. While a lot of people who decide to be ... to. Keep in mind, there are about 50 people in my section of the class

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  of the school that the admissions office wants you to see. MIT, like ... your knowledge of the school be limited to what admissions wanted to tell ... useful, but every entry has a flavor of MIT to it and, when looked at as a

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  murals. of the existing dorms, there used to be four buildings where murals ... glimmer of hope when the Associate Provost of Campus Planning agreed to meet ... Conner pre-renovations, I wanted to blog about what the current state of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  made a bunch of jank formulas to find each question's response ... capita, with only 3.3% of New Vassar residents providing their data to my ... on the necessity of AC. 81.3% — Maseeh, as the closest dorm to main

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  and acknowledge yourself and your growth, say goodbye to this stage of ... have to be academic. It might be more interesting if some of them aren ... short by a writer I admire to warm up my voice. If you can’t think of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  through a phase of eating ancient grains -- or I tried to, but they take ... showerheads are strong! It doesn't take seven years to wash conditioner out of ... already somewhat lower than the number of hours I had to be in class, online

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  . I still know and talk to a number of people I met during CPW, whom I ... many kinds of awesome, your grade is going to be 1/4 of it for 4 years ... . Get to know them! Eat a lot. CPW is full of free food. Enough said

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  I said I'd do it, no? Many of these websites won't have information ... some of you may want to look into, what with summer often involving large ... summer is still comprehensive enough for you to take what you will from it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  know how they’re going to go. And you always want more of them. Jobz: spelled with a “z” at the end to feel more casual. There’s a whole other set of ... start of the subject line to the most valuable emails. From Reuse events

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  The summer before you come to MIT, there’s a bunch of forms to fill ... ’m not proud of. To be honest, my solution in high school was just… not to ... also a tricky one. My first reaction to reading this part of the prompt

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  involve a brief introduction to the geology of Massachusetts and visits to ... Towards the beginning of the school year, my friend Rachel R. '16 ... September 14th, I will lead our “annual” field trip to central Massachusetts

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  of us that I want to solve before we launch in September ... want these to be your ideas, not mine, but to give you the kind of thing ... straightline manner possible... If you want to be involved with any of this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  years I didn't have a book to read, a paper to write or a set of problems ... Interphase? According to the OME's Website "Interphase is a rigorous seven ... Interphase together. We sat in groups of  two and learned in a style similar to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  essentially being forced to copy out every intermediate in every major metabolic ... uses his eye lasers to finally destroy it--and the top few floors of the ... I am done with finals and very excited about that; you may be able to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  via solder wire. Solder doesn’t take to every type of metal the same way ... ’t the best of matches; but ultimately I was able to get it to stick, and ... next time. I learned some basic things, like how to burn the ends of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  available to you (such as living group websites and the Guide to Residences in ... using an algorithm designed to maximize the number of people in their ... of desired roommates, likes and dislikes, et cetera - to put you in a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  while. i'm kind of emo about it, but have decided to take advantage of ... satisfied; only when i dedicate myself to this host of creative channels do i ... extensive compilation of tasks to feel like i'm giving myself direction; i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  these experiences with the overbearing hand of hindsight, to claim that ... of colleges, had I decided to attend those instead. Here's a secret ... -year-old, so of course that social perception mattered to me. From speaking to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023