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• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  sports? The answer is MIT students. In fact, I have yet to see an empty ... of a process than an event; sure, the main goal is to get the frosh ... more abstract purpose relates to getting us in the appropriate mental

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  submission date for documents to show up in the tracking system. We have ... submission. If something is missing in mid-late November, then the fax will be ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  disclaimer here to say that I'll mostly be talking about internships in the ... Most of the readers of this blog post are, in all likelihood ... internships that are available, and also the ones that are most relevant to me

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  'm much better at that now; I want the scars in my projects to be from my ... needed to finish it; in this case, a [annotation note="they seemed much ... again and again to offer help to them. I was one of few women in the shop

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  , Belgium, Germany, etc.) is probably in the works. The schedules pretty much ... difference is to give you a portrayal of what a typical day is like in both ... -taught by the amazing Prof. Stubbe (who, in addition to being a brilliant

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  over the number of characters in my major. Most of you are familiar with ... completely throws us off to not have the majors listed in the following logical ... Admissions site that this entry links to lists the majors in alphabetical order

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to UROP because you basically ARE einstein

  

  : this is not regular and I offered to be there the whole time, it was not ... really enjoy research here, and have found it to be by far the most ... ! Finding One Emails! This is the most common(?) way that people find UROPs

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 26, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  still very much adapting to the new culture and life in general. I have ... . Usually, I am the one sleeping in 18.02 (10 am is too early for me to think ... class in the same department. The most enjoyable parts of the class is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  play in every piece, so I don’t have to go to the entire 7:30-10pm ... stay in MITWE, MITSO, and Techiya, at least for the first couple weeks. I ... ’t want to leave any of them, because they were all so much fun

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  seven people in it, one of which I knew prior to the program and five of ... " and we would yell back "HEY UPOP." My group is the table in the ... a limited amount of money to buy a limited amount of materials.  The

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  does not interest me all that much. My dream job in the Air Force is a ... what ROTC is unless you’re in it or you’re familiar with the military. I wanted to answer some of the questions I get the most, and provide specific

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  to the same fate, I have decided on minor downsizing. The issue is I ... on the board, so I was mandated to wear this shirt twice a month in ... to buy the shirt because it had corn on it for Iowa and I didn't want

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  that the world is a very big place, and in order to change the world, we ... , I’m shook. To me it’s quite clear that MIT is the place that makes ... learned in 2.009 that this is the place that makes us SUPER. I have no doubt

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• FAQ / First-year application

  May I apply before I have begun my final year of high school?

  academically and socially ready to pursue an education at the Institute. There is ... interests and aptitudes, our philosophy is: if you have surpassed the opportunities available to you in high school, and are both academically prepared
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  's journey to the Nobel Prize began long ago. Born in Washington, DC, he ... research teams raced to map the Universe by locating the most distant ... Prize in Physics in 2009), opened the possibility in the 1990s to add more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  the SATs today. I remember how much it sucked to sit in a room for ... First, just to allay the inevitable questions in the comments: we ... to post something I've had in the backlog for awhile.  Last year, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  denial, the gaping hole that the reader is forced to reckon with and fill ... thought from the beginning to the end of a chapter, in which three or four ... that I cannot stand her writing. Normal People is one of the few books in

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  the questions I have to answer upon returning to active duty is: where ... shape in time to fill out the teacher application form for Splash, and ... that image came up in my google search and I decided to use it). The

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  like it's stuck in a loop. The third, and most impactful, is the number ... MIT now, but this is the first time you're talking to him in what must ... ending, which is perhaps the most "canonical" one, the character went to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  year. PNR This is the simplest and most commonly known, so we'll start ... .111[/annotation] is known to have a much lower pass rate than tests like [annotation ... you, though, because most of this is external factors (the average MIT

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025