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• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  clubs participate in. For example, MIT Chinese Students Club annually ... someone for lunch. Once, I was simply sitting in Pavement Coffeehouse ... a smaller one. For me, I’d never really lived in a big city like

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  for eleven years now and I don’t plan on stopping any time soon. In the ... In just four short weeks, my time as a MIT freshman will draw to a ... world for the three months we call summer break. I’ve had the opportunity

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I’m a first-year college student?

  Yes, because you finished high school and will complete two terms of college by the time you enter MIT in the fall, you are eligible to apply as a transfer applicant. You're not eligible to apply as a first
• Blog / Admissions

  All Applicants Can Now Apply For Either Early or Regular Action MIT Admissions announces a policy change allowing international students access to either Early or Regular…

  

  I wanted to let you know of a change in the admissions process for the forthcoming admissions cycle. As you may know, in the past ... . There is no preference in our process for early applicants. We use the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  and sit in a big circle on the stage, underneath the red curtains we’d just hung. Most of us were in the black-and-red we’d wear onstage, and ... met the producer in the blur of EC Rush. She pitched the concept to me

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  Denmark I was up for anything. Swimming after work in the icy northern ocean ... , but for once I was conservative. The tattoo in question was a goat skull ... when I went running, every day for a week. I skipped ‘swim in the ocean

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  turn out sometimes in real life, but it doesn’t make for an engaging ... was a problem for me in Intermezzo. Intermezzo follows two brothers, a ... This year I read 20 books. Here they are in a tier list, ranked based

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a ... with red, Duncan with green-- and that's in just one walk down the ... . For example, a lot of people I live with really like climbing

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  first day. They both flew in early this morning, and we spent the whole day walking around the area in the glorious warmth and sunlight that indicates the MIT Weather Machine is gearing up for Campus Preview Weekend

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Home! I'm back in the US after three weeks in Asia.

  

  After a long vacation in Southeast Asia, I'll be officially back in ... (and for so many people to be speaking English), but I'm excited to begin the new application season for the Class of 2010. My first Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s alive! I built a little car.

  

  . My car is sitting in front of me begging for some TLC. UPDATE Today, in lab, Professor Blanco helped me on my car! Thus, it's still not done ... For better or worse, my 2.007 car actually drives. It's not quite as

  • by Bryan
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in Texas and Arizona Learn about three great schools at once in the American Southwest.

  

  Brown & Yale Universities for meetings in Texas and Arizona. Details ... , hopefully we'll be nearby in September or October. Look for the fall visit ... opportunity for high school sophomores and juniors (that is, rising juniors and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  officers are preparing for the admissions cycle (sort of like preparing for hibernation, but for being buried in applications instead of snow). So here is some #Content for you: last November, Loren S. '17 and I were interviewed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  , eight hours in an office sort of fly by if you're enjoying what you ... trains and the sorts of performance aspects one would be concerned with in ... -functioning conference rooms used regularly for business purposes! There's a network of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  . Anyway, you guys hang in there and try not to worry too much. For those of ... seeing the choices people make, the ways in which people grow, the ways in ... always leads to me being heartbroken in March, but nonetheless I can't help

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  for a particularly bad day. The longer I lived in Boston, the more I ... In today's The Sunday Times, one of the United Kingdom's most ... , Scotland, authors an article commenting on alcohol culture in the US and her

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  . The runners were going about the pace I’d shoot for in a three-mile race ... for a Green Line train, and were spat out in the middle of Allston. A ... in the chaos of MIT to make room for another. Frequently it takes time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  , what are you doing for Pi Day this year? PROFESSOR: Hah! Nobody in the ... Pi Day is a big deal at MIT. Not only does it go hand-in-hand with the "nerd culture" that MIT is known for, but it’s also tradition to

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  dove right in. I was back home in New York for a couple of weeks, it was ... around the city in a weird mood. I was yearning for something contemplative ... everything I read in 2022. The Secret History, Donna Tartt (5/5) The Secret

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where ... resemble the campus I fell in love with, the one I encountered in this same ... for whom CPW felt like a whirlwind of an experience, 3.14 days that

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025