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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  might be interesting to play a little game: THE WORLD'S LARGEST PHOTO ... -back, carefree, and a whole lot of fun. This year my summer is shaping up to be ... , but most importantly have fun: -The most creative use of objects to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I request that my scores not be considered after submitting my application?

  Scores cannot be redacted from applications after they have been submitted. We encourage you to look at this blog post to better understand the rationale and details of our testing requirement.
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  choose the best students we can without regard to how much money they will ... you will not be admitted or that we don't admit students from your ... English skills, you do not need to take the TOEFL. If you do take the TOEFL

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  cement below. I scrambled down to salvage it, only to find the screen ... rest stayed black. I went to get the screen repaired. This took going to ... -line when I bought it in 2020, but the powers that be had rendered it just

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  , and maybe even these blogs, so the decision to apply was not a daunting ... essentially planned. I will be spending the next two years at Oxford University ... I will try to make a difference in the world within my field. Then I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  somehow forgot to submit the event on the left on time, it's not on the official schedule, so I'm just going to tiptoe over the bounds of propriety a ... replace your recurring nightmare of being forced to swim the Charles clad in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  Japan going all the way... but it was not meant to be.   8/4/23Big ... -wise, though I found the organization of the class left a little to be desired ... /conflicts can occur. We were designing this game to be used within the context of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  were...... Finals. On the other hand I was about to be able to go home ... it would be like to be with all of your classmates. Think of it as the ... comments on the right, because they are the truth.) Being able to blogger is

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  time, I failed.    I had not been particularly enjoying the way 6 ... to not drop it. I worked on the problem set due that week with some ... . I have not had to interact with him much outside of class though. The

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  Massachusetts. The journey would be 30 miles. We walked to a trail. We ... talking about being tired, but willing to carry on. Seven or eight miles ... ducked into a hip new-age bar to use the restroom, telling the group not to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  career, from baseball to Washington, he has stood strong in the face of not ... political news media that clung to its storyline of the race being a "tossup ... sympathetic to the academic viewpoint that it should be open source. But I don

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  discussion of one of the puzzles. In about a month all of the puzzles will be ... types of fish?" "Ok, sure, why not?" [Spend the next 3 hours identifying ... going to be. Some of them were easy. We immediately identified Stimpy, the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  pilgrimage to each coffee shop I love, wondering as I do if it will be the last ... expected the faucet water to be lukewarm when I asked for cold, the way it ... overnight. It is not yet close to the summers I’m used to, the August I used

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  them, haven't you? Do the stats and titles make you want to be their ... every Saturday morning, you may not be on your own. Don’t read the “top ... forever may be essential to your memory, but not your essay. Place yourself

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  worked hard in the last four years, so why should I put in more time to do ... .   Head to the beach.   Get tan! (Or get a ... a Jacuzzi and pretend to be incredibly rich (or, alternatively, be

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  , but will prevent the need to adjust impeccable outfits during the high ... them. For the I-9 form you will fill out once to receive access to all on ... nearest Target is quite far, and the MIT Coop is not the go-to store for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  While bloggers Jess, Paul, and Snively will be listening to President ... will give remarks prior to the President’s speech. The audience of ... The President will tour a research laboratory at the Massachusetts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  the many parents out there. It would be great to "meet" you! The ... is not admitted to his or her first-choice school. In the face of ... to meet two parents (hello!) who follow the blogs. They tell me that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  the recent ban; we cannot control that. But we will always aim to ensure ... wishes to be part of it...   The MIT community is proud of those ... banning the recruitment of transgender people to the military. While the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  hey, why not, and filled out the online application. For the in ... for over twenty minutes...) so the doctor left and I wasn't able to get ... astronomy conference, then flew back to Boston (I got the results of my x

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014