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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  the entire duration of the trip, and at the very end I'm left in the ... When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when ... wrote down "computer science" on the line of my application indicating my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it ... school official at your school may submit your high school transcript ... . Because school systems vary outside of the U.S. and many international
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  admission and select a major at the end of the first year with help from their ... to schools in the U.S., but almost one-quarter of MIT's applications ... comfortable evaluating your application in context. A committee of experienced
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  shortened (and not at all nuanced) way of putting it is that East Campus is ... screening a couple episodes of One Day at a Time!! This is Queer West ... have to post this anonymously... MIT is hella gay, and lots of cool gay

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  . But wait, don’t rush. Don’t plunge into the ocean of choice immediately ... and Chris Peterson here -- On the Conservation of Frosh by Rachel D. ‘16 here -- On MIT culture by the hilarious Snively ‘11 here A list of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  her research at last summer's RSI was voted one of the top-five papers ... Last week, the blogging committee - comprised, as always, of the communications team here at the admissions office, plus graduating senior bloggers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  've got all this... extra time now (as you may know, time at MIT is of utter ... mimicked in a higher-pitched voice and some sort of everlasting smile. It ... , a land of glue, x-acto knives, mounds of paper, pencil and pens

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  . Tuesday brought a party at the Stata center hosted by several of MIT ... information sessions almost every night about having a uterus at MIT. And of ... ? ME: What? MOM: You're not really kicked out of MIT, were you? ME: Yeah

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  ship at the exact place that I was watching the 4th of July parade almost ... Well, I spent my 4th of July in Plymouth with Adam's family and my ... dying of hunger) feta chicken, and our friend Mark '07 manned the grill

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  viewer through selective editing of visuals and sound (at least according ... Growing up, I wasn’t always a fan of movies. It may have been an ... winners. I didn’t quite understand the draw of film buffs to the black and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  set up of steel ducks that get knocked down if you shoot them (like at ... Each year of elementary school, in late November, one could walk into any of the classrooms and see hordes of hyperactive chillin's running

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  succeed at the coherent part before the bottom half of my body gives way ... [To be honest, I've had a little bit of writer's block lately, under ... , taking my last possible final at the very last possible time for Harvard

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  , and they sit in a large, unkempt stack at the bottom of my closet that ... front of a group of dead-in-the-eyes peers in the gym at lunches. And ... itself was nice. We got yelled at for trying to go on the roof of the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  putting it up got rid of the only thing that made me bearable to look at ... get my haircut at an actual salon, since she thinks that if I bleach and ... , I inspected the snips of mint green hair that had settled on my black

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  . I’m from the East Bay of California. I share a birthday with Mitski ... clear that this is a tech school. Outside of classes, people are making ... ’s part of what makes things exhilarating or exhausting, depending on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  Hoi zäme! I'm finally back in the US of A after 6 continuous months ... first weekend of August. In the meantime, I've somehow taken over 138 GB of photos this year, and I've been slowly going through all my pics and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  . Everyone at MIT is required to take one "HASS-A", or "arts" class as part of ... had asked me at the start of the semester what I hoped this class would ... it presented a lot of material, but at the same time left a lot of room

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  possible kind of way) and awesome people. I can't imagine being here at MIT without them. *At no point in time were we in danger of starving to death ... California for 7 days, playing 4 matches and spending the rest of the time

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch is one of my favorite events at MIT. It ... the course of the year in the Infinite Corridor basement, each pumpkin created by a team of about six artists. In this blog post, I want to convey

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  most we take on here at MIT, it's a easy one to solve. As many of you know, most of my career has been essentially doing "web stuff", including ... job as an assistant director of talented outreach, overseeing our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014