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• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  international math & science olympiads. Competitions are held for such ... them look deceptively simple. Take, for example, one of this year ... team members are tallied for a country team score. This year, the top

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  (for which I still owe you the summary, I know) we had a group discussion ... hearts and true passions. I mentioned to the group that at MIT we look for ... in order of priority). (We'll pause here to clarify for the record that

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A circle of shared breaths rediscovering synchronized skating at MIT, by Eleanor L. '27

  

  group chat, set up a when2meet for practice scheduling, and collated a ... lift face down and face up for group lift; sideways 3 ppl lift for ... —building synchronized skating at MIT from the ground up—and here’s the journey leading up

  • by Janet G. '27
  • April 14, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  huge front desk. i walk up to it. i couldn’t figure out what to say, for ... has been trying to get back up on my feet. i like to think i’ve been ... ’t want to go. i’ve never been to counseling or therapy before. i grew up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  has been firmly on the pure math track for a few years and who hasn ... wrestling with many new abstract concepts in my head for long periods of time ... school, and for the most part that turned out to be true, though they

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  't let that be you. Also, I tend to show up for my interview around 15 ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... beautiful afternoons along the river cheered me up. It's a standing joke

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  the competition ground that had been set up for the snowboarding event ... This year, for spring break my friend Yida and I decided to head to ... popular spring break destination for MIT students. We decided to visit

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  just one more gnome game it will fix me

  

  ). She's been playing for about a month, while the rest of my roommates ... . Google Gnome Game and its consequences have been a disaster for my productivity. I wake up and play gnome game. I finish writing up a proof and give

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  that things would rebalance. Sure enough, I made friends, signed up for ... the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... 1960s, and I ended up doing my graduate work at the same observatory

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  with each other until about 7:40, when we all headed off for bed to catch ... had assumed it to be—harder to come up with plot, easier to invent creative mechanics for the players' green sheets. The original concepts were

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  assembling her course schedule, picking up her textbooks - and buying a ... up with them my entire life. They're playful and cuddly and they make ... , you have a gerbil colony." Fed up with the pet wave, she struck a deal

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  stay flexible and look for places that would be reasonable for between five and seven people, but that was harder than it seemed. For one, 5-bed ... frustrating. We spent hours on Zillow looking for places and contacting agents

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  PHIL 179. Afterwards, I signed up for the class R suggested and enjoyed ... mentors gathered in the conference room for a final learning session and de ... awesome people together. Sure, part of the group is reuniting next week for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  the middle of the day, instead of getting up at 6:45 like in high school you, college students don’t have to get up until around 9 or 10 and get ... you could be studying for, or a UROP you could be working on, etc. etc

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  answer to this question. AP tests are mostly good for getting you out of ... myself. Had I not taken the advanced standing exam for 18.03, I might be studying for the actuarial exams these days instead of turning turkey

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  fall term"]FPOP[/annotation] for Course 10, ChemE, where they sent us ... fisherpeople in Maine to find responses that could be used to argue for a whale ... lives fighting for endangered species protection. I got the sense that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  -packed to make up for it! This will be easy to do, since I had a pretty jam ... questions immediately after they're asked instead of saving them up for a Q ... was for those involved, but it definitely worked...to an extent. And

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  ; [warning: contains spoilers for the cartoon show adventure time] lessons ... it. I didn't watch Adventure Time growing up because I thought it out to be too childish for my tastes, as the show is riddled with moments

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  student watched me awkwardly shove a swab up my nose for the first time. I ... questionably soggy apples from the Target trip, and waking up early for my FPOP ... the last group to board the plane. When my group was called, I stood up

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  't name, I open up a blank Wordpress file and start typing. It barely feels ... tab and don't reopen it for a year. i've been thinking a lot about race lately. for a lot of reasons. one is that, well, being[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021