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• 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 / 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 / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  , and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The ... now to apply again? Every year a very, very small number of students ... *Correction as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  , Veteran's Day and the last day of our campaign, we set up at one of our MIT dormitories, Maseeh Hall, from 7 to 9, to fundraise and spread awareness. Our ... difference. Over 60 people donated and we raised a total of $275 in just two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  halls with their hushed student-children. All over MIT, festivities ensued ... community (and sometimes even the rest of the world!).” On the sunny Saturday of Family Weekend 2014, a castle appeared on the skybridge connecting

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  another name to it's list of professors, affiliates, and alumni who have won ... Nobel prize for his "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis." Courtesy of the MIT News Office: Schrock was cited by

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• 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