FAQ / First-year application
Can I take a gap year?
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Blog / Academics & Research
2.670 Summary
to run in time for the speed competition, but afterwards I worked on it ... Today was the last day of 2.670. I had wanted to make a really cool modification to my engine by making it a generator, but I didn't have enough time -
Blog / MIT Life
When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?
mile. Today was the only day I'll be in Harrisburg between June 1st and ... or how much they were on. Last year I stopped watching both shows ... (Sam Standard Time) right now and I need to leave for Boston in less than -
FAQ / Life and culture
Can I join a fraternity/sorority?
MIT’s Fraternity, Sorority, and Independent Living Groups (FSILGs) include 26 fraternities, 10 sororities, and five living groups. With core principles of leadership, scholarship, and citizenship, the FSILG Office encourages and… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Pursuing multiple fields
's a question) if you could tell me how easy it is to double major in two ... literature but I'm concerned that it will be too tough to try to get degrees in ... -major because your three "intellectually coherent unit" subjects can be in your -
Blog / Athletics
Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns
don't ever blog about what we do. Laura did field hockey, I'm in pistol ... , promptly filling him with little holes. In between turkeys I watched some of ... I sent him down range . . . *taps plays in the background* And this -
Blog / Announcements
The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live
, and instead to store it safely in your inbox. How you do this will depend on your email provider; in GMail, for example, you can write a ... I’m writing to announce that the application for first -
Blog / Admissions
Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience
. Relish in it. Rule #5: Don't knock it 'til you try it. I can't say how many ... settled in enough that I don't remember what my own experience was like :-P ... that I look a lot taller in my picture than I do in real life because -
Blog / MIT Life
Hey look, I’m famous…or something
where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not ... wonder how long that will last. Though I remember that the first time I was ... fire extinguisher down the stairwell. I must have misheard that. Even in -
Blog / MIT Life
In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?
just spent an hour making, I'm sitting in a chair listening to Pandora ... AM-11AM shift) can attest to: 8 AM - I open desk. 8:30 AM - No one ... Oshima (Director of the Artist-in-Residence Program), and I went to the MFA -
Blog / Personal Travel
summer 2021
For the past seven weeks I've been living in Honolulu, Hawai'i with ... culturally rich places in the world. My weekdays were essentially the same. I ... with my roommates and then I'd be in bed by usually 10. And then repeat -
Blog / Challenges
mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS
still lingered in the back of my mind. no matter how hard i tried to ... i've been drafting and drafting this blog post over and over again in ... old, i live in random hall, and i. am. exhausted. these past two weeks -
Blog / About Decisions
MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online
;decisions.mit.edu <<< You can log in using the same username and ... works, you can read a previous post I've written on the subject ... this decision personally: if I have learned anything in this job, it is -
Blog / Admissions
Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".
orientation and jumped right in, learning the campus as a student. What did I ... would I willingly slog around the campus in a large group in the pouring ... most of the tour guides, several live in my house and I appreciate seeing -
Blog / Classes
thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever
physical classes. now, i'm living in a house with some friends, taking ... things down when i've had enough. this tuesday, every person in my house ... like this, so i'm glad i can be more present now i have more time — i -
Blog / Hacks
Hackapult Sieges The Dome
in the hacking of this hack but I can't say the ... On Friday, September 4th, I arrived in my office shortly after 7AM. One of the lovely things about my office is that I have a window under -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.
I am very curious." Kallie: "Ok, since you seem to be rather in ... ) If you don't have any info, I'm sure I can wait until fall. :) Thanks ... shocking... guess I'll have to wait until I get there to see. Now, I can -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell
I saw it. Can you see it? zoom ... . This is the first rat I've seen in a commercial, though. And it leaves me ... Early this morning I got a text from my friend and former student -
Blog / How to Human
at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure
, Sarah S. ’24 and I meet in front of McCormick to head to South Station to ... can hear ‘Hey yo, Westerburg’; on others, I am thinking about literature ... this point, I am scared I'll forget all of this in the morning so I pull -
Blog / Life after MIT
The After
In a couple months, I’ll be back in Cambridge after 10 years of ... amount of time spent in CAD. I’m still hacking it out here in the world of ... internationally, which then enabled fun leisure travel. I’ve been able to keep in