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• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  rejected, I would have to spend my Winter Break moping AND writing ... date rolled around, I would run to my car after school and speed (I mean ... mailbox filled with bills and coupons. I got so restless that I began to say

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  Greece with 19 other MIT students and a trio of professors from the MIT History Department and Concourse program. Here are some pictures I took. Day ... ;   Cats on a Hot Tin(Metal) Roof   Day 2: The Agora and various

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  supermarket and it is absolutely DIVINE with honey"]tea[/annotation] to ... file, and overall just an overwhelming amount of stuff to keep track of. Not to mention having to keep up with school and other responsibilities

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  clubs and activities. They also learn about the resources available to ... , what it means to be an MIT student, and how to find support and push ... across campus put on many unique and interesting events to give freshmen

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am finished with my undergraduate career. I am finished with my undergraduate career.

  

  for the time left is to spend as much time as possible with people ... think it's time we talked about things and I fill you in! But for now

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  earlobes and huge, protruding eyes. The Traags also live much longer than ... of the crystal. Will he be able to heal the crystal and restore order ... Wednesday, and Friday, I was invited to interview at one of my other top

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  would yell out a number, and MIT people would say to which course it ... call out a number from 1 to 220 or whatever, and he tells you the name of ... , and is yet so unpretentious about it and able to communicate it so well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  my residual fascination with Tarzan contributes to how much I love the ... something and how scary it can be to fail. Year upon year, as we build upon ... like it was silly to limit what sorts of classes and activities I did in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  !" but I decided that was too much. I still wanted to mention it though ... !). Four winners were going to be picked overall, with one undergrad and one ... $500, and four finalists were going to win $100. The objective was to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  London for winter break, then flew back to Boston and got an x-ray at MIT ... for over twenty minutes...) so the doctor left and I wasn't able to get ... -ray this time) and onwards to China. When I got back to MIT at the beginning

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  addition to your GIRs and the classes in your majors, you'd have to take 30 extra units (about 2.5 classes) to graduate. And that plus your GIRs will ... 's a question) if you could tell me how easy it is to double major in two

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  "wet and not-so-hot." It's quite an experience to be in a place where the ... those blogs when I was applying, and I thought to myself, "meh, it's just the same-old "words of comfort" that adcoms offer to students," and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  theory of computation before and pretty much everything is new to me so the ... sophomores to help with resume writing, applying to internships, etc. and ... hour period. Every time, I planned to schedule my time well and every

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

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  and right to see if there was anybody behind you when you opened it? Do ... decided to come back behind desk and get them with me and she TOTALLY saw ... the song comes in with kind of a funk-metal tone, and Clay begins to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  , and Roger Barkan First: Recognize the various cookies used to make the ... job to stop him! At 12:17pm today, hundreds of hunters gathered in ... sign to gather our team, the Rubber Duck Hunters: I saw lots of people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  and move on to the next section about phonology. Consonants There are ... sound. (Put your hand up to your mouth and try saying [t] and [s] a few ... hard to communicate!) comic strip taken from "encyclopedias brown and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  , and somehow found it. Welcome to Japan! I work at a pharmaceutical lab ... ’t heard of them? Neither did I until I applied to MISTI-Japan and got an ... their connections and try to find a placement for you. MISTI will also get

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  had so much spare time on their hands, they actually decided to provide the rest of us with a few games and toys to play with over the next few ... Building. Intrigued, I wandered over and began to notice a few strange shapes

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  you have to pay for. When I told her that, she mulled it over and then just chalked up my high school record (and my college choice) to natural ... comes to curiosity and the receptiveness of kids to new ideas and the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  ago and my brother loves the dog. Me, not so much. Before Toby, there ... night in November, the fish all died and my mom had to get rid of them ... to flap his tail valiantly and escape the vortex, except this fish

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005