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• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  hope you all get to explore them the next time there's a sunny day :) As ... exited heaviest-coat-in-the-closet weather (and are now entering bring-your-rain-jacket-everywhere weather). What better way to enjoy this good weather than by going on a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  ’t have enough to do in my life already and that this challenge would be a ... feels nice to get back to work. Superheroes Do you ever fall in love ... in a perpetual state of groaning and wondering why I had to think about

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  In my junior year of high school, I had a phase of telling everyone about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... desire to be quirky with a nonstandard prom dress. Unfortunately, my senior

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Next Big Mailing is out Choosing your email address, and more.

  

  ! A couple ways to check if your username is already taken: 1) put the ... ? A cover letter from Marilee, formally transitioning you to the ARC ... username that you won't be embarrassed sharing with your professors. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I need a high school diploma to apply?

  Institute when you're here. For some more information, check out What to do in ... completion to apply. Each year we receive a small number of applications from ... school classes, a strong academic foundation in high school both improves
• Blog / Events

  Live from MYSTERY HUNT Live from Mystery Hunt

  

  hours so teams can continue to call in answers and meet with us. If you're ... 7 to begin the hunt [12:48 PM] Now in Baker starting to solve the ... Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight at 12:31am Sunday in a refridgerator

  • by Bryan
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  TwT VIDEOS: TwT videos are a great way to *really* get to know your ... get to see a side of your professor you wouldn't see otherwise. They ... really believed in the mission and it seemed like a good way to get

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  is a full-blown saga. First, you’re given a temporary room in an arbitrary wing in Next. You’re allotted one week to wander around and figure ... generous term. I’m a couple of inches too short for this to go smoothly, so I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  if you're new to programming, taking four full classes plus this is a ... spending long nights at your desk wondering how the heck we're going to get ... put in enough effort to where I felt a lot better with algorithmic

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with ... their poster is about. I was intimidated at first to be in a room full of ... technical oral presentations and exposure to communication skills useful in a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  't really seem to get rid of. it gets in the way of your coherent thoughts and ... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA in your head. this is fear. a close cousin to anxiety, but not ... march is a rough month. you are lost, not only in a pile of things to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  while living in my car, to shower — but I never hit a solid routine. A guy ... — the gym was booked out a week in advance. Having the gym all to myself ... deadlifts were just too painful, and I had to cut a set short, I could re

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  getting in to MIT. I feel your pain. My senior year involved a lot of things ... a comment stating just that. Are you guys just out to get me or what ... pretty cool solution to the problem. So I have a job. Stay tuned, in 6

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  a dorm with a dining plan, but I don’t. On the bright side I get to ... baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile ... about free cookies. I talk to people. I eat a cookie.   punt - (1) v

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2010

  

  school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist ... students from the waitlist in a 3-round process, and previous years were very similar. We'll know more about how this year looks in a few weeks. The

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 13, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  like it's going to explode more so than in my avatar. I graduated a year ... elevators to outer space - and each one has a landing page with links to great ... myself to leave the 'tute, so I took a job at MIT after graduation at the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  anything remotely close to "greek life", or in my case, a sorority, in ... new group. To make a long story short (one for a whole other blog post ... , existential crises, and everything in-between, I know I can go back to a group

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  going to code in Johnson Ice Rink surrounded by a million other people, so ... got to a point where, in a moment of despair, I got up and wrote "CODING ... -dead, "I get better every single day..." My roommates and I decided to join

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  . It’ll never give you the answer itself, and you still have to hand in a ... will. Then I just print out a paper copy to hand in while the file is ... -referencial ploy to transition to talking about collaboration in psets? A: Yes. In

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  acceptance level material. I wanted to give a short rundown of what my essay writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to ... personality points, etc. 1. Create a list of everything you want to include in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019