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• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  of January, but he wasn't certain." There is no "deadline," as we ... . ------------------------------------- Jane wrote, "what i'm wondering is, how does the essay really affect our ... clarification. 1) If my document has some LaTeX mathematical symbols, it is not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  airport) for so long that blogging is the only thing that can keep me sane. the toilet got clogged and the gripping plot is slowly revealed over the course of the next many painful hours. Is the blog still live: Nope (last

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  Man, but also the producer of this year's Next Haunt! There is a lot ... ] Recruitment - Part 1 The first major step to start Next Haunt is to recruit exec ... to accept. [May to August] Summer Scheming Now that exec is recruited

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  “Other duties as assigned” is a concept well-known to admissions ... assigned, running the CPW Closing Show is by far one of my favorites. As ... . The same staff that is responsible for admitting students is responsible

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  in psychology and cognitive science is extremely prevalent and ... . (the most plausible explanation for why they did better on the tasks is ... -deprived). the idea in this paper is that we can trigger oscillations to target and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  couple of months. The Afeefah that sprinted across campus in March 2020 is versions away from the Afeefah that is sitting in her childhood bedroom ... get to attend their funerals. People keep telling me that maybe it is

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  . That being said, this is definitely the semester in which I think I ... [/caption] 6.809 (Interactive Music Systems) - This class is taught by one of the ... project is to make a music [annotation note="i'm probably going to join a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  ;   So nowadays, mostly my relationship with my hair is a relationship with its absence, which is by choice and the product of me trying to do ... dyeing my hair is one. First was PB&J. (hair 1) The day that I moved

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  ’s headquarters, takes over an hour. There is exactly one other person who gets that far with me—bus 62 is my giant UberPOOL. Except, no other public ... -long wait until the next one. The Medical Center is similar to MIT: its

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  Student Center. Holly is a Comparative Media Studies major, skilled photographer, writer, fimographer, and visual artist. On top of that, she is also ... together? One multimedia experience that is both a deeper look into her

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  essays. This is Introduction to Linguistics: an awesome class, which opened ... , who is from Nepal. A shout-out to Pramod '14, who has now spent hours ... address - your writing is quite good, but there are issues which are common

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  bloggers. This competition is NOT about that, and I hope you address my ... -Conner every suite has one. The only issue is finding time to cook for yourself ... runner. Admissions is a little like that. MIT wants the people who will

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  that biology is different at the high school and undergraduate levels ... biology. MIT's biology department, in contrast, is largely a biochemistry ... on the side (hey, it's MIT). It is, as you are probably aware, one of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  the MIT Nuclear Reactor. No joke. Reactor safety training is required by MIT-EMS. The idea is that if there's ever an emergency at the reactor ... , which, it turns out, is probably not as scary as you think it is. So I got

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  .253.4791. ------------------------------------- Steven wrote: "Is there any way for deferred students to send supplementary ... file. There is no need to give us a heads ... official marksheet....as this is kind of considered to be a big achievement

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  This is the fourth and last part of a series, consisting of a lightly ... (nothing) Good morning! The inevitable has occurred; our train is now running two hours behind, although if the Amtrak schedule is to be believed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  had a problem.   In my head, work is an escape. Working is how I ... do not want to do; working is how I run from my fear that nobody will ... , because this box is sad and boring, and there’s a whole wide world of

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  exactly is Genshin? / How do you play Genshin? I’m glad you asked! Genshin is an [annotation note=" Role-playing game, though those words make me ... ’s usually referred to in the in-game dialogue) is kind of confusing

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  letter, tΞp is the co-ed fraternity formerly known as t ... Ξp is what it sounds like: a week dedicated to working on the house.  t ... there is great value in giving twenty-something-year-olds the right to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  is a full-blown saga. First, you’re given a temporary room in an ... (FYRE) out of Next) and find a roommate(s). After that, every freshman is ... perfect room is long and messy and occurs late at night and also involves a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022