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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  education should be] founded on a thorough knowledge of scientific laws and ... Manhattan Project and thought it imperative that scientists and engineers be ... goes out to you. But -- it could, somehow, be worse! A hundred years ago

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  ones I will notice. I found out yesterday that I'll get to be a blogger this year, so I know it’s a bit eager to be starting to write already, here in my Notes app on the side of the highway. Well, so be it; I will

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  science classrooms don't have to be quite as cold. There would be many ... . Eventually, I decided to study abroad. I was going to be at Imperial, meaning ... that helped me be less afraid to reach out in the first place is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  say, okay, well, i'm going to the party. i'll be there for an hour, max ... despite the floorpi team usually being pretty excited about puzzlehunts and usually being one of the faster teams to finish. none of us were feeling it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Events

  He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named Returns Butterless popcorn and a little magic.

  

  Pending recovery from my illness, in a few hours, I will board a bus to head here to watch this movie in IMAX. I’m a “little” excited. Diana boarding the…

  • by Bryan
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  convictions. how can we believe two things that can't both be true? how can we ... mean, it's true that i want the semester to be over, for my finals to be finished and for the grading to be done. but i don't want to move out, i don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Won’t Be Long Now… Some pictures to tide you over.

  

  I’ve just finished assembling and sealing hundreds of packages with the rest of the admissions team. Not my favorite part of the job (I’m not the biggest fan of paper…

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write ... expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to ... what blogging is like, how the job works, and how it feels to be famous

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  Game, you lose. Rule 3: Loss must be announced. Basically, the objective ... - really, it is all going to be okay. Whether the admissions decisions are

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  be denied by MIT, but it still felt strangely ceremonial. When the ... consider myself to be stoic. I sobbed. I called my parents. Then my sister ... know that Decision Day can be difficult, but your door will open, even if

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  logic methods can transform social ideas into precise concepts that can be discussed, disproven, or altered. Then to be discussed, disproven, or altered ... . But there are pros to being a HASS major at MIT as well (and there are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  depending on the converstaion, it might be "Chris, what have YOU been doing ... really means to be here. First, there's CPW, where (if you're like me) you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  stalking Diana Eng and I discovered that she is going to be at the seamless 2 ... I am able to grow facial hair to be my punishment for some inexcusable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  took calc my senior year, but didn’t get transfer credit for the class

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  that could guide me - only an emptiness that needed to be filled by ... live as a human being and not a human doing. Here are some of the ... “I won’t be like that.” I’m proud of my “self-sufficiency” and carry

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  some puzzles, which will be marked. Organizing this post was a pain ... . Which is everything, including all the dry details that'll be boring to ... looks like it won't be interesting. Most of what I'll be writing about is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• FAQ / International applicants

  Do application materials have to be in English?

  All application materials must be in English. You may have a professional service or a teacher in your school complete the translation, but you can't translate the material yourself. If your teacher translates
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will there be a wait list this year?

  't know if we will be able to select students from the wait list until
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  probably because the excitement of being at a new place never got replaced with the overwhelming realization of being at that new place before that ... wouldn’t think twice before saying no. i couldn’t be seen as weak, or i

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  airport in Philadelphia, and from there I'll be in the aeroplane over the sea bound for GERMANY!! I'll be blogging again soon. Probably from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006