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• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  is commonly available in high school. However, many of our students ... challenged themselves in high school and have taken advantage of their opportunities. If you're using your resources in high school, you're going to
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  sets. I can imagine the outline of the forest I would see in the distance, in the morning. Except that I won’t see it in the morning light ... -up instinct, and then I jaunt around for the morning, and crash for a nap in the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  (which was very exciting, by the way - I have never been in a country with ... , everything looks nicer in lowercase. maybe i'll stop capitalizing now, bwahaha ... assignments" that you get in high school. Big differences between psets and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  people who are interested in double-majors, if only because it's a little more logistically difficult to fit in the extra classes that you need to ... can take in one semester without breaking your brain. You're welcome, of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  ’s decision in the SFFA case had on the composition of the Class of 2028, why it ... , [annotation note='My parents — who were born and raised in the tenements on the ... attend college, and did not accompany me to campus. In fact, the first time

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  .[/annotation] It’s helped me edit, and in turn, write better, since I can more ... I’ve been in a bit of a post-application-season pre ... in what has become a hunkering zombie of virgin words. The other

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  though most of the people in the course were upperclassmen). There was no ... interested in Indian architecture – specifically the Mughal architecture the ... December – and 2010 – I was briefly back in the UK, now my second home, where

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  , students live in dorms, fraternities/sororities, and independent living ... traditions that motivate a significant population of students to stay in their ... -friendly. With dorms that are so distinct in character, it's no wonder that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  . Every hobby I picked up, except blacksmithing, lives in this room. My jewelry supplies are still in the desk drawer, though I've taken my best pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  screenings of movies and projects them in 26-100. I've gone to a couple of screenings and events in the past in an effort to see more movies (I watched ... generational trauma, being queer in a traditional Asian family, nihilism and the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  home that day, and I was competing in two events: student congress and ... decisions before I gave my speech. I would go in and talk about Imelda Marcos' conviction in the Philippines and then I would walk out and accept my fate

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  Guys, in spite of everything that's happened, I'm having a college ... community are living in near MIT in a place we've dubbed "soft house," since ... four of us working in the kitchen at all times, with others joining now

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  it was june, which in the relative scale of time we’re all in right ... wanted to push me in. every once in a while i’d feel so uncomfortable ... and put my back against the railing instead, taking the wind from in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  refreshing in these last few weeks. In my last post, I uploaded a picture of my ... in these first few weeks. Today was my first midterm of second semester in differential equations. I walked out of the exam room confident

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  ) successfully evaded teenage pregnancy. Apparently, 20 = adult. In exciting ... ., and Th., ‘19, emerged in a grand procession. The leader, in a furry cap ... birthday wishes in class. One of my neighbors, F. ‘17, resolved to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  -disciplinary, flexible, and engaged with the larger world in ways many other departments ... few of my friends in DUSP, and their stories about getting here ... Studies and Planning   pictured, left, in the Tamale Peace Corps

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  the first year you're doing it on Kickstarter? Yeah. In the beginning it was basically my money—my mom actually chipped in a bit. The first year ... home in LA, we were talking about how we wanted to one-up it. The next

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  who are fluent in both -- those who simply upon hearing my accent switch seamlessly into English. But also, those people are incredibly interesting in how they interact, particularly in the lab. Unsurprisingly, Germans

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  all the magic in-between dealing with proposals, funding, and listings ... 're interested in a professor's research, just go ask about it and see if they have ... , for all you haven't-learned-MITese folks), I UROP'd in a really amazing

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  , you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... of the bad question that is, in essence, unanswerable. Now, if you ... MIT freshmen for them to answer in a single semester: “How would you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012