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• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  at the center of the room, and quietly slid to the edge of the room ... ) actually reveals more information than at first glance: 2 of the strangers we ... anything.” - Maria Kalman My heart was nearly jumping out of my chest when I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  Championships, and here is the group of us at MJM after our "sendoff," aka a mock ... since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off ... all, my meals. Below is a collection of my attempts to put together

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  humanistic academia. At a certain level of analysis, we're a little like oil ... Well, I've reached my first "last" of the year... I just put the ... -cultural medicine and issues of embodiment in post-traumatic stress disorder, is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  110%. Some day soon, many of us will have to offer our support to ... [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] The night still hung in the air at 0630 ... of the only hub of activity for miles, I waited. I was crouched, poised

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me ... Activities Period. The month of January at MIT, and the most fun time to be on ... technical field. A badge of honor at the Institute, e.g., "Nerd Pride". (2

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  I realize that the title for this post could be the title of a hymn ... to watch the progression of the emotional state of MIT students. The ... everything college has to offer. They want to work hard, show their parents

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  :50 A.M. on a Sunday Morning. I’m in the kitchen of my floor at Random ... :50 A.M. on a Monday Morning. I’m in the kitchen of my floor at Random ... implemented a randomized algorithm at work today that I’m proud of. Thank you, 6

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For love of Baxter A story of love, loss, and catnapping on Burton 1, as documented by my cell…

  

  place it on the dining table of the 132 suite at precisely 12:10 AM on ... felt missing, at least Pi/3 radians of my heart...It's great to have him ... you ever want to see him again, you must meet all of our demands. The

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 27, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  + Nephew Chair of Research at the American Sports Medicine Institute, and ... Medical Doctor with a Biology degree, MIT Class of 1985. For more ... to privacy," said one Sox official. "Most of our pitchers go there at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I take a summer session?

  During the regular Summer Session, MIT offers a limited selection of the subjects available in the academic year, as well as a few subjects designed for special interests and needs of MIT students. All classes are for
• FAQ / First-year application

  Where can my school counselor find helpful information?

  Thank you for all of the good work you do for our awesome applicants ... all of the different requirements for so many students and schools. We offer specific advice for educators here. We hope it helps!
• FAQ / Transfer

  How much does the transfer application cost?

  Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT offers need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver won’t have any impact on your chances of
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  took of all the awesome stuff at Maker Faire: At the entrance LEGO had ... iron with thermite: Lots of folks at Maker Faire love bicycles. There ... one of my hometown crew from back in NH, but he now lives out in the bay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical..." Hello readers. I've had an overwhelming number of requests for sample problems from this year's integration bee at MIT. But first, a little bit about

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  - Dread…knowing that January is the coldest month of the year, with an average high temperature of 36 degrees and an average low of 22 degrees ... : - Euphoria, associated with a lack of problem sets - Excitement, over having

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  the spirit of introduction, here are some Things I Know to Be True at ... A few years back, I began keeping a tab of life's certainties ... uncertain when you hold them too close. Still, I add to the list. Markers of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  slightly outdated) version of Marty's talk on the same topic at last year ... I blog a lot of retrospective trip reports (see, e.g., ISEF 2016, IOI ... at 1:30PM on Saturday at the center stage in zone 7. It will be a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  I got out at Logan airport, and I immediately entered a state of utter ... So, today is the day! CPW has finally arrived! As many of you make your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Business As Usual

  

  sign he made (piece of glass cut and etched with some waterjet machine at ... Friday at East Campus, one of the ten floors hosts a food event in the dorm ... It's been business as usual for me here at MIT, following the routine

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  apartments over 2 days - all in 90-degree weather. There were all sorts of ... weeks ago, and spent the first week in the comfort of my relatives’ home ... , touring, eating lots. There in Chengdu, capital of the Sichuan Province, I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011