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• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  transcript is one of the most important pieces of your application, so a ... I've done a couple of posts about life at MIT, so I figure it's time ... confused applicants. I'm not going to tell you how to get into MIT. That

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  the three-hour event, and lots of really important administrators and ... take away was what everyone on every side of student health on campus is ... communication gaps are largest. I spoke with Dean Randall, Director of Student

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  One week down! One of you asked about what I'm doing down here -- I ... , so basically, applying technology to the analysis and optimization of ... , eight hours in an office sort of fly by if you're enjoying what you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  importance of attending the "famous schools." This one features our Dean of ... prestigious schools you thought you had a chance of getting into, or ones that ... schools may be the smartest applicants of all" http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  of in awe of the fact that I'd apparently survived almost a full year at MIT. I did not, shall we say, come from the most stringent of high ... . (Hey, speaking of my sleep statistics -- (awesome) Professor Wolfe, who

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  more importantly they became a part of the MIT community and lots of ... I walked into the TV room in the sorority house and saw many of the ... I’ve found myself being reflective recently about a lot of things. A

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  recruitment has been moved from the last weekend of IAP to the beginning of the school year. This is a major change because most of the MIT sorority women ... school and meeting dozens of Panhellenic women, it became blatantly obvious

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? If you drink one can of soda every day for six months ... drinking that soda. Thanks to Shilpa for telling me that dubious bit of ... tomorrow, but that seems less important than blogging right now. I might just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  algorithms class and possibly the most important class of my major. RIP my GPA ... 'm still super excited. the class goes into computational models of thinking ... she's written a bunch of books and papers that are super important to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  , I give you the email equivalent of the ipod challenge!** I went into ... a few times to me. One of these was when I was in high school and visiting colleges. A friend and I were part of an Honors Band that weekend

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  name of the fictitious character who often takes responsibility for mysterious things that happen at the Institute during the middle of the night. My clever little paragraph up there is just a cute way of saying that a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  much more about the field of economics than I did coming into MIT, and ... subject of what we learned at MIT came up. Now that this semester’s over, I ... whole point of college to take classes and learn things? At MIT, I

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  winter-me. I’m on the train heading into the depths of New York City, about to venture into the Museum of Modern Art with a friend from Senior Haus ... my dorm room, did nothing to bring me back into reality. Many of us, I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  fingers, or something else), “dive” into the middle of the centered clay to ... [/caption] My takeaways from week 1: The speed of the wheel is important! It ... lump of clay, and I think it helped me get back into the groove of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  you back to zen calm state sooner :) ***AN IMPORTANT NOTE***: A lot of ... The first round of application deadlines are upon you, which means ... the Early Action (EA) deadline. We know that there’s been a ton of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  taken, it's important to discuss what those random string of numbers we ... .02 has the important job of expanding the relatively new concept of ... .01 after learning about Moment of Inertias, I walked into 18.02 to find today

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  encouraged. Without further ado, a window into the minds of my friends: The ... Venice was important back in the day Constellations of the Southern ... a whirlwind of learning. I've blogged about teaching at these events

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  little more important. I’m at the phase of my life where I’m deciding ... time at MIT or if I want to jump into a career straight out of college ... into an effective leader. The GEL program assigns each of its students

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  ’s infinitely easier to pack the snow into a structurally sound brick (instead of ... It is 12 am on the second weekend of IAP. Snow has been falling for ... ground... This is generally an important prerequisite. You also generally

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  with the notion of “half”, I did a zig-zag that still partitioned the page into two equal areas. The teacher, who by this time of the school ... GPA in high school to be admitted into MIT (as well as some other

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023