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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  most precipitation on average occurs in November. - The lowest temperature ever recorded was -18 degrees in 1934. - According to the Old Farmer ... snowstorms in mid-December and the first half of March." - Last year, on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  videos on how to be really really evil in various fields, and all the ... came in to save the day, offering the teams the opportunity to get the ... , which led them on a goose chase through the halls of MIT and down into

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  the few that actually gets to go to school here. I remember that on one ... listened to while I applied to college. I miss being Wasted on the Senate ... the cold without socks or shoes on. It remains a mystery to this day

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  stay on campus for the summer, so it's extremely easy to get a research ... beautiful polka-dotted sundress which keeps me cool walking to work on hot ... the homework like? Is it hard to get an internship during the summer? Is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m still alive And I missed entry #2000 by one! Blargh!

  

  needed to be posted on the blogs. Expect a real post from me this weekend ... the O'Connor Lab, guaranteeing me the shortest commute to work I'll ever have to make. (Yeah, you know I used Paint.) The round trip is less

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 20, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will there be a wait list this year?

  on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "yield"), we admit about 1,400 students. However, it isn ... 't know if we will be able to select students from the wait list until
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  on the weekend. With that said, I began applying to colleges where I ... absolutely no excuse aside from the fact that I don't really know what to write ... , I was not the most fun person from the months of January to March of

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Supporting our DACA Students MIT’s commitment to the safety and well-being of all students has not changed and will…

  

  conditions to work and study in the United States. This reevaluation has been ... strongly urge the president and Congress to find a path that better serves us ... , aim high, and earn a degree or a place in college or the military, on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  May, Olivia Rodrigo came to Boston on her sour tour. The online ... significance, to only focus on the measurable aspects of the decision, that didn ... the middle, I pen this on September 8th but intend to publish on October

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  rudimentary to very advanced. It also provides data to the schools where the ... reasons as) ours. Last week, Daphne from Bebras sent an email blast to the Computer Science Teachers Association, to help let teachers know about the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  affluent student groups on campus. At the end I finally decided to volunteer ... Engineering. Today I decided to do start doing things the Greek way as I was ... actually called the ceremony, but it used the word "covenant" enough times to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  google sites website to house the forms Figuring out payment information on venmo Organizers had a meeting, made plans to teach people to make ... discord server, building on the organization of the old one, and a dedicated

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  limited availability relative to the significant demand, for the exceptional opportunities that await. Since our desire is to make the best possible admission ... means that you have the opportunity to matriculate. If you are not offered

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• 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

  

  't know about. So, I went around campus to get the scoop on how students and ... the "nerd culture" that MIT is known for, but it’s also tradition to ... admissions decisions to applicants, but I was wondering if students on campus

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  was staying on campus and was updated on testing and all that jazz. The ... , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to ... replacement for no charge. The replacement was scheduled to arrive that weekend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  these. Through the feedback, I was able to narrow down a lot more on my ... 's usually really easy to get started on writing since the writing is basically ... Over the past couple years at MIT, I've had to write a lot of papers

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  on the right hand side already says —  that the 2.s009 product launch ... you're waiting for the show to start. I'm too busy reading applications to 'attend,' alas, but I can't wait to watch the archived footage later!

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  up on the roof (using a telescope to find Comet Pan-STARRS as the sun ... to find the Beehive Cluster using a map (that I read in red lamplight). I took the occasional break to have a hot drink inside. I'm being

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  “It’s just so effortless!” Apples and ziti and pies, oh my!

  

  eating to be done once I woke up, though! Right after hearing the AppleBake results, the Conner 2 freshmen rushed back up to our floor to work on the ... little AppleBake logo on the back, which Adelaide '09 graciously modeled

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  or go to a meeting. I want to actually have a full grasp on the lecture ... to actually go to the lectures. Sometimes I would just skip out on ... . Honestly, I'm blaming it on the stupid Sig Chi party I went to, but I need to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022