FAQ / First-year application
Can I take a gap year?
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Blog / Admissions
The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…
to chuckle. In looking back a year, he references this post, in which I discuss embarking on our new viewbook project. I can't believe it's been an ... final proofs next week - and then it's off to the presses! I can't wait to -
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 / Internships & Externships
Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5
and expenses, and I stressed about the rest of my life. In September ... new. I did social media research and sat in on team meetings about it ... , I worked on the end stages of some art installations in Boston. For -
Blog / Academics & Research
So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.
interest in learning how to make forceful arguments in written form. Studies ... those has got to go. I will probably keep drumming if I make it in ... It was as bad as I suspected it would be. Turns out I have 5 hasses -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
craze how a blog gets born
black out— there is nothing else in the world I can do I am barely ... I have more than 100 blog ideas saved in a nifty spreadsheet and ... of ideas in another life, I could have been a painter (I -
Blog / Classes
rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated
. Right now, I'm sitting in Hayden Library, watching the sun sink over the ... too early, but I love the aesthetics: children in knit caps, sunshine on ... , and aesthetics are not so interesting. But maybe I'm in a sentimental -
Blog / MIT Life
Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.
In times of economic crisis, Random Hall perseveres in upholding the ... decreased in a geometric series. It is predicted that Paul would have finished ... “too hosed” with homework to participate in the social event, eventually -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!
, etc. in our mouth. There are other ways to categorize. How can we tell ... text very well or at all, that's okay! What I'll do in this section is ... . But these sounds aren't really, if ever, used in English (but they can -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.
during my MEng, I’ve fallen hard in love with this city—Cambridge, then ... past Saturday, our first warm weekend that I’ve been in town, on a path ... gardens. I love our long, long, daylong and nighttime walks. I love feeling -
Blog / Admissions
Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.
Today, I leave for three weeks of vacation in Southeast Asia ... MIT in the comments section of their posts. I'm disappointed that I didn ... will be on August 12th. In the meantime, I'll probably be fighting off -
Blog / MIT Life
DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"
can apply. right after i get my scores? i have 2 more years in ... hooky more than I ever did. But when your mother is begging you to call in ... summer, two of which were Memorial Day and July 4, and I've gone in almost -
Blog / Academics & Research
Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.
... Hmm I don't know when I was actually planning to hand it in... June 4th ... until Thursday, May 21. It is the absolute last day I can accept a thesis. I am in the office from 1:30 to 5:15 so drop it off sometime between -
Blog / Challenges
Disaster Relief .
you can donate directly to the China Relief Fund, here. I hope ... I haven't been able to focus at all today. I didn't really understand ... When I describe Sichuan to people I always mention the food, and the -
Blog / Admissions
Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.
being a woman in engineering here. I had female friends in all of the ... Engineering), and as far as I can tell, they were all quite happy with their ... Last entry, I covered most of the questions that had been asked, but -
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 -
Blog / Announcements
For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events
, and we'll do what we can to accommodate you in dire circumstances. Take ... America, tropical cyclones (and military conflicts) in the Middle East, and an earthquake in Haiti. And, while our Early Action deadlines are -
Blog / MIT Life
Got Questions? I have answers.
Hey guys - sorry for not blogging in so long! I've been up to all ... . Specifically: finding a UROP for the summer (I'll be working in the Lang Lab ... MIT, I know that many of you are currently in the midst of choosing -
Blog / Academics & Research
Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…
I can write some sort of blazingly exotic blog entry full of ... allowed to drop a class without penalty, was last Wednesday, so I'm in all ... class here. But it's kind of nice to know that I can until almost three -
Blog / MIT Life
The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.
MIT. I was gonna blog about classes, but that can wait until tomorrow ... MIT for being so accessible that I can get neosporin even at 1 AM. Mitra ... unsettling interest (just kidding, I love it!) in seeing my spilt blood, here