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• FAQ / First-year application

  What should I do if I’m deferred?

  includes an opportunity for you to update us on anything important that has ... your application was already strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round. Let your application stand. Simply sending in
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of student support services are available?

  support for MIT students. Whether you're struggling with a pset because of something going on in your life, you feel too ill to take an exam, you ... reinforces the core values of MIT by providing support in an accessible and
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I play football at MIT?

  ever! In front of an enthusiastic home crowd on Senior Night, the MIT ... -game undefeated regular season in MIT history. The Engineers captured their first New England Football Conference crown and were selected for the 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  Thai place.    6:45 pm - We are waiting for our food in Basil ... /11/23  8:16 am - I wake up and start to get ready for our panels in the ... same bagels. We head in for the Opening Keynote with Sal Khan, who is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  places for women to travel alone in the US” and “affordable oceanside US ... the ocean, partitioned by the faintest, haziest stroke. In front of me ... .   1 There is an innate human fear in being by yourself. Survival

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  fondness in my heart for that[annotation note="Lydia wrote about this once ... live fully independently with friends for the first time in my life ... who wasn't related to me for the first time in five months. I still can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  live in singles. You can stay in the same single for as long as you want, but if you're in a frosh double, you have to vacate it for next year ... random person in the hallway and mistake them, just momentarily, for a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  reproduce the answer. When you're completely stumped in a lecture for a course ... supervisions are setup within your college (another system I'll talk about in a ... vs Cambridge for IB Computer Scientists (it varies heavily based on

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  Mass. Ave, swathed in darkness that small glowing arcs from streetlights ... whistling through the air, striking fast-paced pedestrians clad in sweatshirts and unfeeling bulky vehicles whose owners are lost in thoughts of their

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for ... agreement, or as an adjective, i.e. “so true of the professor for letting us ... ,”[/annotation] etc. in every sentence, there are two other types of common phrases I

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  Among Us, all in the name of "socializing" and "building community". For ... in the mornings and the videos and lecture notes were good anyway. For ... together in the TV Lounge, drink tea and eat snacks, and talk about stuff

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  topic for my final 24.201 Topics in History of Philosophy: Justice & ... ’s in a great location for public transport/commuter rail access. Whether ... (for a visual summary of the trip, scroll down for pictures) “Let

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  dogfighters and barnstormers…and for two weekends in October, they host a Fall ... -Centimeter Pillow and block-printed Feynman diagrams for the four primary Higgs production mechanisms. (I'm a physics nerd; not gonna apologize for that

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  neighbor, take walks in the shaded walkways behind my house, or build oddly shaped sculptures in the sandbox with my friends. The magic of television lay in its ability to transport me to another world, another story, and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  - Now I know to keep my MIT ID in my wallet at all times and I leave for ... easily just, like, pour more water in.  I mean, that's what glasses are for ... perfect. Go ahead, take your pick and then read below for the answers

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  for my email address. It's up there in the blog banner, and anyone is ... mood has done a total 180 since then, so I feel I'm justified in talking ... school interviewing in biology gives some insight into the admissions

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  enough. I realized that it was, in fact, a Thursday afternoon and time for group meeting! Since everybody in the lab was late for group meeting every ... "The Adventures of Pete and Pete." Happy Groundhog Day! Wow, thanks for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he ... in favor of sticking with science, which, for me, was an accessible and ... I had something to show for whatever research I did. In other words, I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  , because for 9th and 10th grade, we were in the music program of the arts ... Program is funded in part due to the generous support of the Council for the ... ago, where you get to see TWO plays or operas in New York for FREE with

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  My highest achievement at MIT.

  

    [caption id="attachment_104348" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Third to last day of the archery class I took for my final PE ... Edit: Okay, it wasn't split as neatly as that scene in Brave, but that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2024