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• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  or Senior year. The topic must be relevant to your major, but can be ... must be completed by the end of your senior year and it will be permanently archived by the MIT Libraries. I did a little bit of web surfing to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time ... who is your mentor. Also -- you do not need to choose the teacher that ... your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much better

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  the 100+ pages I’ve scrawled across, so what you’re getting will just be ... different projects, but because drawing is way faster for me, I like to sketch it out first to get the rough shape and dimensions down and also have a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  'll be well on your way to staying warm on a budget. Maybe you'll even ... around -5 F at night, and yet I stayed (mostly) warm.   The secret to ... let you adjust to different temperatures (by putting on/off layers), but

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  , so I have to grope at people for help (get your mind out of the gutter ... , delivered right to your e-mail! A lot of the jobs do happen to require ... class gets you to really absorb is how differently real-life situations

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  your bed to be, although the highest you can get it is about 3.5 or 4 ... /extracurricular activities, but I won't get most of the information necessary to make the best decision for me until I get to campus. The word on the street is that yes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  to answer those questions is the best way for them to fill out their ... declaration is the best way to go. In an ideal world, everyone would inquire ... about other aspects of your life. The choice is truly up to you.  

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  twelve different authority figures telling us not to kill the kids and a ... course, but do you really want me to elaborate? Anyway, working with the ... essential things in life, like sleeping (I HAVE TO BE AT BREAKFAST BY 7 AM

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  , 2019. Google tells me the length of my hiatus: [annotation note ... , I truly planned to get my life together enough that I could post and ... thought about if I would get fired[/annotation] but was too scared to ask

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  on the admissions website. What I will do, however, is let the dorms ... MIT's mapping website, which is vastly superior to their old website ... I know enough to stay away from trying to describe the different

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  make for good song lyrics) Agawam is best known as being the ... actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way ... found half price tickets to Six Flags which were a little cheaper than the

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  costume he was wearing. - The easiest way to determine Chuck Norris' age is ... to business. Find below the best 23 Chuck Norris MIT appropriate jokes. I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  their stronghold. Our first priority was to get out the window to ... remember the battle by, save for memories and my war diary. Here it is, enjoy. ... year, because MIT is out there to switch things up and do things people

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  . Unfortunately, by the time I get there it's pretty late, and (probably due to the ... inconvenience. By about 11:30pm, I finally get to the other hotel, check in, and ... that there is room on the 7:30ish flight if I want to try and get on that

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  [by Sadie Scheffer '10] For the final art blog of the school year, I’d like to tell you a little more about Cracked. Cracked is a student ... part activist. We called our first meeting "Bring it to the Table." We

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  to all of Ring Comm and thank you for your hard work. The ring is ... As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to ... -growing infestation, one rat is chosen out of the many scurrying about campus to be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  it was 364.4 smoots + 1 ear long. Google even considers the Smoot to be ... . He is one of the few people to win a Nobel prize in the sciences ... awarded the Nobel prize, bringing the grand total to 63 faculty, researchers

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill

  

  , according to Google Analytics, but no one is commenting, so here's a place to ... It's the middle of July, and my brain is so fried I'm punting on a ... your questions" posts, where he would just harvest questions from the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  -defined problems fed to you by a benevolent manager, then you’re in luck because the ... closer to finishing than I was a few hours earlier. On his way through the lounge, one of the upperclassmen in my dorm stopped by to comfort me. “Don

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  four digits which is unique to our specific person. It’s crazy the way we ... how powerful it is to you…but I think it’s amazing the way that that ... to is a composition of numbers. In general, when we need to get in

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011