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• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  also an option in the Report for students whose schools do not provide ... school. Finally, my colleagues in the Financial Aid Office are happy to ... applying for financial aid on the Student Financial Services website.  The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  MovableType publishing platform. Instead of being a website like blogger or ... , like MITAdmissions. After logging in using my super-secret password, we ... . Any size differences, colors, or pictures you see are all hard coded in

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  I spent this morning sitting in 1369 Coffee on Mass Ave writing new ... Instagrammed my food.   (In my defense, the latte art deserved ... further away for me, so in the interest of research—and inspired by a bunch

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  in bits all around the website. I do feel funny clarifying this, but if ... scootered over to Walmart with one goal in mind: acquire a Rubik’s cube. We ... hard as we made it out to be in our heads—we just patiently followed the

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared ... , granola bars and a box of organic alfalfa sprouts that appeared in no ... schedule of a 24-hour pharmacy worker in Alaska. No wonder: Random Hall

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  same taste in music: classic rock, blues, and jazz, and that's pretty ... arts school in Austin, Texas. As summer break ended and we all parted ... heart of live blues music in the United States. You run into all sorts of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  -graduation trip to the Bahamas -- he's been raised in a hard-core ski family, and ... to travel with an MIT airplane-scientist-in-training... I'm kind of ... burritos (I'm pretty sure they must have crack in them... so good. So

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  returns come in. I had many election-watching options to choose from ... in Copley Square, and even a party at my own house. Ultimately, though, I hopped in a Zipcar and went out to the suburbs to a party at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  (mechanical engineering) with a focus on learning machines. I live in Next House ... 't even a joke it's the MathCounts Plank Tournament in the Next House ... spectroscopy. This summer, I had the chance to live in an apartment in Cambridge

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  D. '21, our hallmates, and I all went to Tasty Burger in Harvard ... later. In January, I fulfilled my blogger-career-long dream of taking ... in East Campus, First East has a FFT (Free Food Table). Anything on the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  We all have those weeks. Some sort of tragedy happens - a death in ... extracurriculars, the negatives and the tragedies all add up to be, in a way ... them all away. I went to a new counselor in the morning who taught me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  A lot of people living in the United States don’t understand how ... inspired to write this post by a tumblr question I received while in Ethiopia ... is the village in Kaffa, Ethiopia where I've been doing the water

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  similar lifestyles, so we grew close pretty quickly. We chill in Next House ... bottles in the closet have two small potted plants called Sandwich and Vincent Van Growgh, and then eat a sandwich in front of Sandwich to instill

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  ) website here: Designing a First Year at MIT First year MIT students are ... advising, a non-credit option in which advisees simply meet with their ... in personal projects. We (Ellie, Teresa, and Gloria) are or were all

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  in the process of forming, as well. On November 19, 1884, The Tech reported the first “official” musical space on the MIT campus (then located in ... have secured a room in the Institute for holding their rehearsals this

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  that I supervised about MIT in the Marvel Multiverse. Jade just published an article about her research findings in Technology Review. It ... even wrote about a pair of Spider-Man Shoes I had painted in high school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  navigate MIT and attempt to reconcile my diverse interests in both biological ... , or understanding the progression of disease in humans. I also want to ... and bathe in the (metaphorical) blood of my enemies — well, you get the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  of people. I've definitely succeeded in that goal, both at Senior ... probably take literature classes in college without taking literature classes in high school, but good luck trying to take math classes in college

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  . We were en route to Mathcamp 2004 (which was held in Colby College, ME), and we decided to stay in Boston for a couple of nights before heading ... tossing around a Frisbee in front of Killian Court at dusk. I still remember

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  of the items in MyMIT means that someone has alredy read that part of ... , cheaper, faster...I miss Anna's now that I'm in ohio and all I have is ... , and of course in boston. Vegetarian/vegan restaurants are only a walk or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005