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• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  To those of you who received your letters printed upside-down on the ... inexcusable and all of us are beside ourselves in embarassment and frustration. We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  π Day

  

  Albert Einstein Memorial at the National Academy of Sciences, I set up my ... the National Academy of Sciences? I was there for the public exhibition of the finalist projects of the Intel Science Talent Search. I got to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome To Room 3-107 Hope you like the new site! It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests.

  

  Well here it is, the reason I've been hiding for the past couple of weeks. Hope you like the new site. It incorporates a lot of your feedback ... syndication feeds. Changed the design to allow for easier reading of entries

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 27, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the HASS Requirement?

  100% of MIT undergraduates study the humanities, arts, and social ... . The requirement deepens our students' knowledge in a variety of cultural and disciplinary areas and encourages the development of sensibilities and skills
• 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 first year with the help of their first-year advisor. Our application asks students to list their "course of interest" only, and the choice
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Do most students complete a UROP?

  The opportunity to get involved in research as an undergrad is one of ... who is working on something that you think is awesome. More than 90% of MIT students participate in the UROP program at MIT. Many of them will
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  MIT has A LOT of graduation requirements. Most colleges have some sort of breadth requirement. MIT, being a technical school, has a weighty ... these graduation requirements was “But I’ve got a ton of AP credit…won’t I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  Ciao. It is I, Jacky of the French Dormitory. My culinary journey, as ... that are authentic reflections of myself. A lot has happened in the ... for cooking. I believed cooking to be an expression of love – to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  content warning: mention of suicide. one I'm sick of all this, "How ... backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of ... with them. i'm on top of my work, and i don't want to kill myself. on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  meal. It was a way of giving the graduate students, many of whom had all of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other ... would always be written in this mishmash of Chinese and English: dishes

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  : not personal growth and the importance of self-care, or how long one can ... of college coursework. So that's what I'm providing here: rough outlines and hand-wavy explanations of the topics I've covered, sort of as

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  ’s actually in the sense of, “the place where something originates”, like alma ... ”. I don’t know where that comes from; my best bet is an abbreviation of ... meaning of the word enough, could also mean something expensive, valuable

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  For most of my adolescence, my bedroom was painted as close as I ... . However, there always comes a point where a bedroom becomes more of refuge ... of the time? what do these feelings even mean?"]agonizing teenage self

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  . “Will you go back?” This moment is a snapshot of many conversations I ... challenge of obligation. I invited members of the EESA (Ethiopian ... office. Earlier that month, a slew of Ethiopian political prisoners

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  , 956 sessions** 1330 hours of classes *mostly MIT undergraduates **you can sign up to teach >= 1 sessions of any class 1330 hours of classes. For those of you who can't instantly divide numbers by 24 in your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  Gregor, and there was an official Course XIX (Meteorology - but of course, an ... ), and applying to medical school. One of the most interesting things that ... first two years of med school was HARD as a MIT grad. But you ask: doesn

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  for games. Regular season: where we play all of our official games on ... championship, which is three games over the span of a week. In the NEWMAC ... the game like a crack of lightning, and you can instantly tell what type

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  Over IAP, I joined the ranks of bloggers who have fallen into the black hole of fiber arts. (It could happen to you! It could happen to anyone!) At the end of last semester, the [annotation note="the undergrad

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of ... door on the first floor of the tower sounds an alarm, so I exit the ... carefully pruned flowers and walkways warped by the overgrown roots of trees

  • by Ella T. '25
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  of my thoughts without any exciting MIT anecdotes or events. I feel ... to hear the ramblings from the inside of my head, maybe they won't find them relatable or interesting. But when I expressed this worry to one of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022