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• Blog / How to MIT

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  covered in cardstock and stacks of cards. I am furiously scribbling on a 2.5”x3.5” pieces of paper. I am putting the finishing touches on my Magnum ... ,100 incoming students. It was a blast, and so this year, I applied to be an

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  it. >"< Last IAP, we had 3 hours of class everyday in the ... and have most of the day (except class hours) to have fun in Tokyo! It's been really fun so far, exploring all of Tokyo's neighborhoods - peering

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  commitment dining plan at Baker House. Outside of the residence halls, many ... of MindHandHeart-funded initiative to make an MIT student cookbook to ... below, Elizabeth '13 and I were modestly involved at the beginning of that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  Two weeks ago was our Spring Break at MIT, and the halls of Tetazoo ... UPOP for a tour of our halls!  Caitlin H. '16 and Zara P. '16 liked East ... seven people in it, one of which I knew prior to the program and five of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  's just once every two weeks as part of a co-op? Or do most kids just end up ... aspects to eating on campus. 1) dorm dining halls, 2) convenience stores, 3 ... Cormick, Simmons, Baker) 2) The option of signing up for a dining plan (everywhere

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  February 2006. In the Fee Lab, she studies the brains of beautiful little ... of time learning basic lab techniques like how to slice brain tissue ... each other within a certain area of the bird’s brain, and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  halls- in fact, I've never eaten in any of the house dining halls (except ... . For example, most of the house dining halls are open from something like ... exactly what it sounds like. I personally had no intention of going, but I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  . Each hall has its own, and the dorm is the umbrella to each of those ... of a single time where everyone on hall is asleep during the semester ... “intense” dorm of people with no shoes and dyed hair. But, not everyone who

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

      tl;dr: Click here to apply to MIT.   ... guide, with an overview of each of the components of the application, including essays, letters of recommendation, required tests, interviews, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  year. I'm not making any of this up. It probably stems from a talk I had ... Freudian terror. Flash back to the real world, where school is still kind of hard despite having little in the way of required classes. A classmate

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  complete the first step. Take driver's ed, that's fine -- it's a rite of ... a bunch of scary car crash videos. This will heighten your anxiety and ... curated playlists, and realize on the highway that there's a little piece of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  (relatively small but still nonzero number of) Early Action applicants for whom we are still missing a component of their application. Typically we have pretty reliable email delivery, but just in case some of you didn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  compiled all of my oddities into a single webpage. (It's kind of like a hall ... biology research is one of the loves of my life). So I decided to devote this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  MIT. After debating between a couple of topics, I chose to tell a story ... helpful. There are a number of things I could discuss about this ... recommend applying for next year if/when they run the program again) and about

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3 We have extended the RA deadline. Happy Holidays!

  

  MIT Admissions has extended the deadline for applying for regular ... means that you should you should click the final "submit" button of your online application on or before January 3. If you are applying on paper

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline & Taking Questions Advice for RA applicants; I'll answer questions Thursday.

  

  students applying for regular action admission to MIT. This means that you should you should click the final "submit" button of your online application on or before January 1. If you are applying on paper, have the Post

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  Every year, I try to set aside a chunk of time to reflecting on the year. This is usually done in the form of setting New Year's resolutions ... of these things happened Oral surgery - Jan. 25 20th Birthday

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Newly Admitted Student Events… ...coming to your neighborhood.

  

  Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT, and now that I have emerged from my first season of reading MIT ... for Admitted Students. Although a lot of my time is spent preparing for

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  . Dining hall food is not my thing, but on the advice of a fourth year in my ... gestured at it through the window of our Uber, wondering aloud if water ... , melting just a patch of ice. I could see the water rush and tumble from my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  and culture of their residence halls.In the ’90s and early ’00s, these were recorded to VHS tapes, and later DVDs, but with the advent of You ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020