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• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  time for cleaning and organization with the sound of music. At the end ... and 8 hours at home, a 4-0-8 scheme. Lab/design/field work classes have ... 3-0-9, 5-0-7, etc. There are also classes of a different number of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  categories you see at the top of the site. I decided this afternoon that I ... read all of those applications at the same time and compare them side by ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  with our mom near the shore at night. We saw a dark moving spot in the ... years ago!) This summer, one of our goals was to find another sea turtle ... more than 2 months to no avail… One of the nights we wrote a poem with

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life in the Fast Lane why do i walk so fast?

  

  [/annotation] is a battleground of different speeds. The tourists walk at a lackadaisical pace, gazing around at the trappings of academia and stopping to ... student here: $300 per day. (Big clarification–MIT offers one of the most

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 29, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  state of Massachusetts, many via the class which is offered every IAP ... from eight grueling hours of training. We're required to work at least ... 've really been home that I'm on the verge of emailing housing and telling them

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  's team before leaving to start a team at my high school, with three of my ... You've all heard what most of the other bloggers are doing for IAP ... must be dying to hear what I've been up to. I expect the barrage of

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  , put most in storage, and moved out of my room Competed at the 2018 US ... started the semester at ETH Zürich as 1 of 6 MIT exchange students Started ... at the MIT Winter Exhibition Accepted a full-time offer Wrote about

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  movies watched way too late at night. In the absence of doing these things ... income to spend at a really nice tattoo parlor. What is the tattoo of, you ... recently. Having the time to read at the end of every day is a luxury that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  students plan gap years. Adds Lee Stetson, dean of admissions at the ... will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the Class of 2011 and would like to request

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  around for two weeks swatting at mosquitoes and eating a lot of food. Last year at about this time, I reviewed the status of my progress bars on the ten side quests I had set out on at the beginning of my freshman

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  Masters of Engineering concurrently with finishing your bachelor's degree ... seriously; don't try any of those at home :)"]safely[/annotation] in the ... business day. I miss having most of my friends at an arm’s reach.   It

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  'll go to class, but at the end of the day I just want to go home, back to ... out anymore; I usually go to bed at the oh-so-early hour of 1 AM. I ... aside the ethics of saying that to a child, I was glad to hear it at the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  partially agree with you. :) The vast majority of people at MIT are ... Science' degree?" Yes, at the undergrad level. If you major in Literature ... ?" Well, you see, of the 11 undergrad dorms, only one, McCormick, is all

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  program at MIT, which “brings together distinguished members of the faculty ... ’ve worked with c: 2019 Oh man, look at all of the [annotation note="if you ... all of our program directors and operations. We had weekly meetings (at

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  many that at one point I had to transfer all of the pictures I had taken ... . Bryan '07 offered all of the prefrosh blog readers a chance to write a ... interested in then e-mail ALL THREE OF US at snively [at] mit [dot] edu -- ask

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing at the University of ... apply for the Master of Library Science program at the University of ... Between June 1st and today, I have: written 5 versions of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  at the expense of putting something else off until later. Being in my ... I'm writing this blog post sitting on my bed in my room at home in ... degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  college acceptance as the light at the end of a dark tunnel, and clutched ... reward for my effort? Will I ever? Because at MIT, I often put a lot of ... departing group of hallmates at 3 AM, in the middle of the winter, in flip

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  don't offer the financial stability of an established company. But even ... type of person." During the beginning of my time at MIT, I struggled with ... job at a big company. Of course, the truth is that MIT has so many

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  This summer, I was enrolled in one of the five summer@future classes being offered for MIT students (with the snazzy bonus of summer housing ... its instructors were wonderful at supporting everyone with all levels of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014