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• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the ... percentage of students at MIT end up majoring in something other than what they ... search for "pirate" above.)
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  One of this year’s admits asked me how MIT sets you up for grad ... , in general. Where you end up for grad school has less to do with the ... Ds, too—you don’t need an MIT undergrad to end up at a place like MIT for

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  walk the Kerry Way and keep an eye out for trails that headed up the ... soap. Alright — this morning I started late, like woke up at 11. I ... Waffle House. They bought groceries for me, too. Not knowing what to ask

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  , but I wound up getting sick and having family obligations, so I had ... on for miles with no interruptions. The path is secluded from the road ... believe this was a Christmas Eve hike. We’re Jewish, so Christmas for me

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  Prize "for extraordinary service to children." I was equally surprised to look up and see small children sitting on stage: in the front row, there ... …to make music together." This particular seminario was made up of: children

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  [LIVEBLOG 🔴] Making My ENTIRE Comic Portfolio BEFORE THURSDAY AND ALSO EVERY OTHER PROJECT IS ALSO DUE THIS WEEK AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...

  

  doing Thermodynamics homework that I have to do for my major, or drawing comics for the fun class that is not necessarily required, I ended up ... morning! I'm a Summer RA for MacGregor this summer, which means I get free

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 4, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  up at your door, you get to go hunting for your stuff in China. You get ... least in Yunnan), so everyone buckles up for a minute and then unbuckles ... Vietnam. We woke up at the crack of dawn and headed for the Vietnam

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  on Tumblr In hindsight, I am positive that signing up for a Tumblr ... enemies and wore bandages for pants. On Minecraft I would stay up till 5 a ... you, essentially, and don’t do it if it’s not. Here, I dug this up for

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life But make it four

  

  about it 😁. Special thanks to Teresa, Sabine, and Jinhee for creating the Content for this blog! The image grids will be formatted like below: For times of day that were missing images, I took some creative

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • February 10, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  and I asked them something like, "oh, it's too late to sign up for MISTI ... university. I ended up living there for the majority of my time in Mexico and ... very long time! Before that, though, I was in Mexico for two months doing

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  you can just be comfortable around because you have been so close for so long. You can talk about anything for hours, or you can say nothing and ... . Normally this category stayed around something like 1-3 people for me. It was

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  these questions, we have to look at a sticking-together rock up close ... pretend that they're balls for now.) These little balls cause little ... directions. Add them up, and you get no total force, so those rocks just sit

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  . [annotation note="short for Public Universal Feline"]PUF[/annotation] usually ... to get bullied by the other cat on the floor, and thus end up spending quite a bit of time in Ilani’s room. For the summer, though, PUF was

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  It snowed for the first time this school year yesterday! Originally ... got up in the morning,[annotation note='over the course of the day ... ) has Boston had more than 1.1” of snow in an October storm or for that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  ="alignnone" width="343"] She did it! So proud! ^-^[/caption] Step 6: Prepare for ... apart and prepare for the worst case scenario by constantly thinking about ... , ready for action![/caption] This is when everything comes into play. Make

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  fireflies lit up the trees. There was no one around—a terrifying scenario in ... the fences when they don’t even close? Cars here slow down for a deer ... grow up. In college, youth is appreciated. It means a more flexible sleep

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  My freshman spring, I had planned to put up this post about pi day, but for a Set of Inexplicable Reasons it did not go up in time and has ... , in spreading the message that Many Things Are Arbitrary. For one thing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of January. The weather forecast for my first day of work. Granted, this ... by IDEO for the winter, with the stipulation that I would be working at

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  Radio way back when? For you prefrosh who've signed up for Terrascope or for those of you that will eventually sign up, it's a class you can take ... , seeming strange or feeling too uncomfortable? For example, like this. Or

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  been skiing or snowboarding or just plain cold for more than 20 minutes ... closet at my old grade school, which was headquarters for some secret spy ... a really good blog entry in general. But then I woke up and was

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009