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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  . This is Professor Junot Diaz. This is a book that wrote, one of my all-time favorites. When I accepted my offer to come to MIT, one of the first thoughts that crossed my mind was Holy moly I am going to be in the vicinity of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  certain of my path and purpose. 2. Apply early. There are only benefits to ... overlapping section- we should be best friends.  :) As of now, my existence can ... copious amounts of time to my drawing/sculpting/architecture classes and

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  the University of Massachusetts, where I wrote my senior thesis about ... a little while. Next week I will begin a leave of absence from MIT. I ... student and researcher. As some of you may remember, before MIT I was a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can anyone join the Experimental Study Group (ESG)?

  Experimental Study Group (ESG) offers instruction in the core first-year subjects of biology, chemistry, math, and physics through small, discussion ... floor of one of the central buildings on campus. Eleven staff members and
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Splash?

  analysis, Splash offerings span a wide variety of areas. Want to take a class on origami? Lasers? Neuropharmacology? Over the course of 21 hours ... For one awesome weekend each November, thousands of high schoolers
• Blog / Admissions

  Changes To Your MyMIT Account The no-online-notification thing may change in the future, but unfortunately not this year.

  

  A quick response to some of the questions we've been receiving: you ... - remember that you can call us after 3/18) - otherwise, we'd be offering "online notification" which as you know we don't offer. :-) MyMIT will only

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• FAQ / Interview

  What is the interview process?

  . Interviews are not a required part of the MIT application. While we try to offer as many interviews as we can, we have limited availability and may not able to offer interviews to all applicants. If your interview is
• Blog / MIT Life

  Simmons Cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat

  

  , breathing kitty cat in front of me? IN SIMMONS HALL? [caption id ... with friends in the 4AB lounge, eat dining hall food in Simdin, and ... dorm, so you wouldn’t find any furry friends (besides Kaito, the Heads of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  of our GRTs (Graduate Resident Tutors) who live on our hall.  She got ... , we had a greeter at the door to welcome them to our hall. Most of us ... ! Pictures of Food Deviled Eggs by Alex C. '15 Buffalo Chicken Mac &

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  DID YOU KNOW? "The Canticle of Freedom," written for the dedication of Kresge Auditorium at MIT, was the only piece Aaron Copland ever wrote that was commissioned by a university. I feel that I've posted too

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  -is-closed hard. But people like to stay active; my hall, for instance, is currently ... how to do most things. However, a lot of people are confident that they know how to learn how to do things (ew, sorry for the string of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Visit

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  students apply to MIT because of its reputation, and I strongly believe a ... While I’m sure some of you have a good sense of what I do as an ... more agonizing) - that is all actually just a portion of my day

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  while they toured Boston. Every inch of that hall had a memory attached to ... ."]weekly,[/annotation] one of my favorite rides was the Disneyland Railroad. The Disneyland ... sense of it. It was simply a train that wrapped around Disneyland to help

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  appreciate the breadth of MIT offerings for athletes and beyond. The main ... Wellness (DEW), was amazing. DEW was nobody's first choice of FPOP, at least not for anyone who participated. That hurt for a couple of days—"If I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  to learn that it also existed in the US. None of the MIT dining halls ... ="aligncenter" width="171"] It do be like that sometimes[/caption] Cream soda was one of ... atrocity of the American version for about a month. That all changed one

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  Exchange offers a wide range of experiences and can depend significantly on ... of individual motivation and tenacity to make it through the year ... , although the only evaluation for Cambridge occurs at the end of the year in

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  In light of interviews quickly approaching, I thought I’d do a post ... . Here we go!   A bit of background information before we dive in ... -dimensional person, which is what we strive to do with all the other parts of the

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  in late february of 2017 me and jessica t. '20 did a hall exchange. a ... of industrial string around, hall feed on Thursdays, various occasions ... , and reading her field notes of my hall causes me to smile. as two east

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  One of my goals for my sophomore year was to do all the things I was afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do ... because a lot of the clubs required interviews. Being a wide-eyed frosh with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  (except for you... you know who you are...) For those of you who don’t know, I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan University. I am currently working on a number of blog posts that will be

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018