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• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What summer programs are available?

  the dorms. There are a number of small, specialized summer programs on campus, but they're not run by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Most programs have their own website with the application process clearly outlined
• FAQ / International applicants

  Can I apply if I am undocumented?

  information, check out the section of our website for undocumented applicants. ... Yes! Undocumented and DACA applicants submit the same application components and go through the same selection process as all other students. For
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... -- and yesterday, the complexity apparently got the best of me. When I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  If you missed part 1 of the Fredventure, be sure to check that out in ... ="alignright" width="225"] A top-down shot of the rainforest. I'd never held onto my ... hike around in the thickets of the rainforest. At MUSA, we were split

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  rent a car from the local Budget office. Unfortunately, the only type of ... relatively smoothly. A few of the ECs come onstage at the end to introduce themselves and help answer some of the questions during our Q&A session. 4

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  lot of trouble getting through. It really looked like the whole town ... ... Explosions, yay! And the bonfire, of course. Tea, coffee, and chips ... Just finished reading Paul's entry about the Guy Fawkes hacks at MIT

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  The summer before college was my last summer of being 18, and thus my ... . They had little booklets at the front of the library for children to log ... comics. Spoiler alert: I didn’t win. Probably why the title of this blog is

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  dear friend on a Christmas tree farm. The other half of my possessions ... back in March. The drive west gave me a lot of nostalgia. In junior high ... spent there shaped a lot of my perspectives – the independence of living

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  entry that would exceed the length of The Old Man and the Sea, and so I ... desk, I spied a whiteboard in the hallway with a suspicious bag of candy taped to the side. Thanks to the educational value of countless Halloweens

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  the overwhelming satisfaction of playing Capture the Flag, dancing with seven-year-olds to the addicting melodies of Lady Gaga, and initiating a ... , staring at a drawing one of my campers gave me, and craving only the company

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  i guess this would usually be the time of year that there’d be blog ... wouldn’t know. as soon as i got deferred the thought of reading the blogs ... lot of time thinking about you over the next few days. i wonder how all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  of the name. Some of you may have read about me in Melis’ previous entries, but the short version of the story is that I’m currently a freshman ... Chi Omega. Anyway, the point of this entry was to introduce you to yet

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  22 other amazing people over the course of the semester, and we pulled ... show! One of the most amazing parts of 2.009 is the final presentation. Over the course of a short semester, 8 teams of 24 students came up with

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  actually was a hack there! Floating in the center of Lobby 7's dome was a ... (unfortunately, the rippling surface of the fabric made the code hard to scan), one ... opportunity to implement all those bad ideas they've had over the course of the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  take to disseminate in Haiti at the end of April. I'm working with Anila ... disasters before, but never of this scale. We got off the plane, and the ... rode through the mostly unpaved roads of Port-Au-Prince to see signs of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  My first installment of The Adventures of Team Bemis: Some extremely ... followers. 3.) Trace the outline of your hand (preferably the hand you do not ... greeting of the coming holiday. You can tell a lot about someone

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  but two of them) and then look at the answers down below. Really, with the advent of the Wolfram Integrator online, there's no reason for me to ... DID YOU KNOW? Human females are the second-largest female primate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  Some of you may be wondering why I dropped off the face of the ... schedule packed-ness, and works quite simply. First, count up the number of ... my next class?" The number of "yes" answers to that question divided by

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  of the easiest. MIT's 27 fraternities stand alongside the dorms as a ... and the same triumphs - both of which can be found in abundance at MIT ... or more, ranging from as simple as who sits at the head of the dinner

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  scary, but with the help of [annotation note="the most effective way to ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D7vbGagJvQ&feature=youtu.be CMS.335 is about the basics of principles of documentary, particularly the production of [annotation note="the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019