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• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  Happy new year everyone! I've been out with the flu most of this week so I'm feeling horribly behind in most areas of life. Being sick ... seems to demand attention. Alas. Hoping to be back in the office tomorrow

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  "low warning" sign. I have $1.70 in my TechCash account, and the reason ... in my account for free (quick deposit online costs $1.50), but it ... . (This could explain why the girl studying in the cubicle next to me looks

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  2, 6, or 18, as Ceri described in her awesome vlog):     ... really, really use a person like you. Knowing People Who Are Real Adults in ... to go into tech - I'm interested in digital marketing and transmedia

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  Hi Everyone! In my previous post, I announced a blogger AMA on ... with additional questions or ask them in the comments below. I can ... in the comments we didn't get to answer (watch the webcast for the ones

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  the leaders from the other Impact chapters in the New England area. The ... 90% of these getaways have happened in the Big Apple, “Weekend Adventures Parts 2, 3, and 4” shall hereby be dubbed, “New York Adventures”. As

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  , [/annotation] and cleaning my room right after buying groceries on Sunday. In ... on time, so I am simply doing it anyway. In many ways this is exactly ... 've devised (and finally, this semester, stuck with) for succeeding in this

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  couch)." - Nicole Wondercoin It was 4 in the morning in a New Vassar ... seemed to be every dorm but the one I was slated to live in for the next ... I had individual friends in Maseeh, I’d figured, dorm culture wasn

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  run across the street to turn in homework, but I do appreciate how new ... runs. Calendar: Hello, readers! Anyway, it's the beginning of the new ... . It was not for anything XFair-related. "reg day meeting" In the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  , a living group in New House. 2) To be perfectly honest, I don't know ... let yourself rotate under the stars. On a good night in Boston, I see ... Hermes after being raped (surprise surprise) by Zeus. She is also, in case

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  process. Dozens of you wrote in with wonderful, funny, and sometimes ... best universities in my country. However, I want to study aerospace engineering. In Costa Rica, we hardly have a decent airport for receiving

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  every new city I visit. There aren’t that many places in the US that fit ... through buying coffee and learned how to say basic things in Italian, like ... eventually one in particular caught my eye: Eurovelo 8. It stretches all along

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I apply for first-year admission if I already have a degree?

  bachelor's degree may not apply to MIT for a second degree in a new field ... departmental programs(opens in new window). Each department has its own
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  "]summer[/annotation] at Canada/USA Mathcamp, where I lived five weeks in Tacoma, Washington ... in this image: [caption id="attachment_103880" align ... (and broke and superglued one shoe) to buy the clock from [annotation

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  be very good for me though. Try something new in a PE class ✅ Air ... This blog has been in the works for a… long time. I first started ... grad dorms are pretty easy for me to forget. Participate in a UROP… or

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  Hi! Welcome to my comprehensive documentation of my time here in ... finding, moving in to, and living in Random Hall! It's a mixture of the move-in ... here in Random. Pre Dorm Assignment Moments after I was admitted to MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  , this can be seen like a trick question. In a conversation I had with a ... bright student had to drop out her junior year in college because of dad ... deportation procedures. In short, we can come with a lot of baggage; baggage

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  you can buy on Amazon for 7 cents each. You can find blue LEDs in any ... technologies with roots in the Nobel Prize in Chemistry or Physics. (Even if you’re using a CRT display for whatever reason, the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there an MIT Flying Club?

  The MIT Flying Club, headquartered in AeroAstro, motivates, encourages and facilitates affordable, hands-on experiences in full ... offers regular general body meetings for members, hosts helicopter fly-ins
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  's status as one of the oldest colonies, definitely more than could fit in a ... not fw blithely gallivanting in PR without educating yourself and being ... reserved tickets for rainforest entry a month in advance (they sell out fast

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  , in biological engineering, the first entirely new curriculum ... student today in my subcommittee, and we had great group dynamics. For lunch, I ate at the brand new Steam Cafe, a very yummy new dining option! I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005