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• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  many students we can accept. Students who at the time of entry to MIT ... year of college, the earliest you can apply to transfer to MIT is during your second term of study. Students who at the time of entryto MIT will
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  where to be on the court? How do you set up plays? Volleyball was better ... to circle the track with this song on repeat in my brain. In high ... bridge, and then run back on the Boston side. It frustrated me to no end

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  time on the team, requiring us to learn how to build a custom gearbox ... first be a good engineer. 2) Learn on the job Nobody tells you how to ... This is a blog by Monica C. ‘25 about her experience on the MIT

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  day i arrived on campus freshman fall, to the day i flew to san ... twitter? best lectures i've been to all year, but i'm dreading the final ... pattern is "wow the class material is interesting but i don't want to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  elaborate on the answer after i've given it. it's just that i'm not going to ... . with respect to the on-paper details, acme and widget are very similar ... the embodiment of my resume, and copy-pasting the same application to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  ! Nice to meet you! I'm Keri Garel, class of 2010, and in the blogger world ... of the Sport Death shirt that at this point it's probably cheaper to ... through the gate... (click any image to enlarge) Why should you visit us

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  ’s different but I love it.  We decide to go to the Barnes & Noble we saw on ... [/caption] We walk around to the Wellness Center on campus. It has a lot of ... see on the train. The Harvard people again! meant to be 🤩   ~7

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  weekend was my last ever cpw, so i decided to revisit some of the same ... this mashup of ennodu nee irundhaal and permanent. the first few seconds ... minutes later were so perfect, and that was when i knew i wanted to join the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  of the two dozen folks who went to Peru for the weekend went hiking on Saturday, but I had to rest on account of (a) the fact I was feeling a bit ... who avoided going on the hike decided to simply walk around in the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  valuable trial run on how to do classes without the finality and stress of ... are, to understand the problems that you don’t get the first or second ... laptop hanging from the rafters with a note pinned to it. (not really, but

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  went over to the house and once again occupied space. I sat on unfamiliar ... this after dwelling on it for so long and I'm very grateful to all the ... personality was interesting and the people were interesting. I chose to live in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  - the frosh dinner is where the floor takes the frosh out to dinner. On ... decided to go with the good old standby: duct tape. Of course, once I ... -clothing-really-cool-all-purpose material is there? I know! Zip ties! (I spent about 5 minutes on the duct

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  to document on my blog, is the sheer nerdiness of most everyday ... cars actually latch on to the cables and get pulled along for the ride ... SAE team. (Once upon a time, I was on MIT's team.) Walking to the BART

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  was the place to go for science and math. From that point on, it became ... to.” I was more on the side of “uhhhhhhhhh.” Scary. Matt: The first ... South Dakota, so my exposure to schools on the east coast was pretty low

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  doesn’t match? So you have to be on top of your game all the time. I love ... to focus on my inner identity. I swam & played basketball on the ... , another friend on the other side of the room calls out to tell me that there

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  The Wizards of Oz(aka my parent's old friends) had a huge impact on ... Living Situation: Now on to fun stuff. I currently live in East Campus ... yet to memorize the course numbers) is most likely what I'll be majoring

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  ! welcome! for those of you who are still on the fence, i thought i might ... the reasons i originally chose to come to MIT. MIT has changed me so ... to matter as much as the things i didn't even think to think about

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  & Humanistic Studies, appeared on The Colbert Report. Certainly Prof ... programs like "The O'Reilly Factor." On the show, Colbert plays a character ... buzz for Oscar Wao on the class discussion list [see entry: "Running away

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  second friendly local math major on our floor to check out my math  he ... we’d put on the paper anyways. I'm kind of inclined to trust 5 and 6 ... ’m going to work on this for half an hour Thought 1: Rate of water swooshing

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  packet, with a day to spare. Still, I felt my grasp on all the concepts ... take up most of my time during the day, and I also needed to finish a ... enough time to get my fill of goofing around before the hell of spring

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025