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• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  , we wrote regarding changes to the AP exams. Since then, we have ... offer require them to take all the AP exams they had planned. The short answer is no, you are not required to take AP exams for classes in which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  classes. How to use a bandsaw A bandsaw is this machine with a thin metal ... it into the saw in order to make a cut. To use a bandsaw, after ... a knob to raise the handguard, turn the machine on, and push

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  We often think of innovation as tied inherently to engineering and ... approaching the issues no one has dared to approach before.  We can take a hard ... social innovation. We have to innovate, engineering the ways in which we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  Saying that I was excited to go to college would be like saying that space is big. I couldn't wait to start over - to create an entirely new ... commtment to the next. When classes began, I was fine: the academics were

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  questions and identity crises… Every student at MIT is required to declare a ... bound to your decision. To change your mind (by the end of sophomore year), all you need to do is fill out a form and get it signed. Basically

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  to be there. What is FIRST? Only the greatest thing ever, basically ... . In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff ... -packed weeks to design and build a robot that they think will do well at this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  ! Please give a warm welcome to: Aiden H. ‘28 from Loveland, Colorado, who grew up without internet and turned to books for entertainment like ... Rico, and a writer of heartfelt birthday letters to her friends 🎂

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  separate blog about that soon.  Thankfully, I got weekends to hop on a bus or train to the destination of my choice. While there were about a ... North Wales. Unfortunately getting to South Wales would be 8 hours

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  . According to MIT's Dormitory Council: Residence Exploration, or REX, is a four day experience for first year students to explore MIT dorms and find ... where you're going to live, REX is the perfect time to explore MIT’s dorms

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  available online Monday, March 14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page ... , feel free to email us at [email protected] and a friendly guy named

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  ’t live in a vacuum, and it’s stressful to waste energy and time on something that isn’t really important to me at the moment. Course 18C seems to ... the class. Or, more accurately, we moved on from special relativity to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  are barely enough plates for one person to squat while another benches ... plates is rarely an issue, and you don’t have to wait for various machines to open. There are big speakers to connect to, and I blast rock through

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  conversation they would nod their heads (side to side, not up and down) and ... the word, and was thoroughly confused by whether the side to side head ... to me. However, by the end of the trip it almost became a sort of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  i'm writing this post while sitting at an LAX waiting to board my flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can ... i left boston to start my internship about 3 seconds ago. i talked to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: EX MACHINA SOUNDTRACK [caption id="attachment_45168" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Trying to say something that sounds ... working computer, and some free time to go through my photos from the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  summer. the two sets of flights to pheonix, arizona are work-related, but the rest comes out of my paycheck. TT i'm going to anime expo in LA this ... personal trip to portland, just to explore a nearby cool city on my own. :) i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  good at dealing with it, and so my typical strategy was to pretend that nothing was happening. To be honest, sticking my head in the sand like an ... fact that I got to go home and rant to my parents every night. But I know

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... /con Should I go to MIT? list was "I can't take my car with me." Freshman year I got kind of used to walking places and taking the T. Eventually I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  you're here, and we have your attention, I would like to ask for your help in making MITAdmissions better. tl;dr: this summer, we're going to ... the move from our old site that Ben built back in 2006 to this, the site

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a good post to write on the occasion, or some significant reflection on my halfway point at MIT. Usually when I sit down to write a blog post, I like

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017