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• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  stayed in touch more with a friend who moved away. Get to know people ... queued for a later post (in an attempt to spread out my blogging and be ... senioritis project–something to do in the time that you procrastinate all of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  year of undergrad, I chose to live in a double, because I really liked ... experience was defined by proving myself to nobody in particular—proving I ... ="Residential EXploration, where first-year students get to explore all the dorms with a lot

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  type? 1. You can learn how to cook. What better way to learn how than to live in a place where you can have a big, awesome kitchen with personal ... known to make a home out of EC as well.. 3. Residents live in doubles or

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  . If you are interested in doing research at MIT, you will need to be ... must invite you to their lab to engage in research. If there is a ... An Exchange Student enrolls at MIT to take classes as a non
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  decisions. We are just people who once went to MIT (maybe in a time when it was easier to get into MIT than it is now) and have insights into the Institute (or how it was thirty years ago; in our internet age you might know

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  , taught me how to play Guitar Hero in Simmons, which isn’t Smash in ... :30 sharp, clad in sunglasses and head-to-toe rain gear, I yelled at my teammates to start warming up. By 6:50, I would be perched in the coxswain

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  was never cleaned up properly, how the government tried to relocate ... complicated subject that i don’t think i’m qualified to write about in detail ... the topic and link you to some of the articles i’ve read  space in sf

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  like it's going to explode more so than in my avatar. I graduated a year ago, so perhaps you might be curious as to how different life is for me ... to ask specific questions - I'll try to answer in the comments), but if

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  more snark in my life, you think? Responses to Comments Nur asked: Just ... in applications, and the class council does some magical process to ... as I can tell. In your MyMIT account, if you go to Section 8 of Part

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  straightforward: study hard, get good grades, go to a good school, get a good job ... there isn't anything else left to accomplish. But in reality, success is ... ever changing. As I learn to believe in that with all of my heart, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  won't know how to get there but no worries because everyone else was ... and feel obligated to write about 5th of November/Guy Fawkes ... class last week (in Chinese, of course). I didn't see any masks over here

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  I discuss how to get scientists more involved in advocacy, and what a ... physicist!" At this point, a number of people are trying to get Rep. Holt ... 'm busy wondering how many people can say that they've talked to a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  /Malawian/Ghanaian dirt compares to dirt commonly found in, say... Massachusetts? Or what ... machines, like in the picture? How was it? What sort of buildings do local ... -Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  live in my room in east campus, but i'm trying to spend more time in et ... promys, this math summer camp i went to in high school. it reminds me of ... thing in the us, but it feels like a Real Thing now that i'm going to rent

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  vests, or taking cash from people who wanted to get in. It was retail at ... get closer to looking like what I wanted to look like. I can’t count how ... managed to get my hands on it once again. And, because my favorite thing to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  more holes in my ears just to create nerdy ear "scenes”). I’m currently ... Anymore! (though, to be fair, The F-Word never was)   How did you ... coaster and fort, and freshmen get to help out. It's a pretty cool way to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  arbitrary order and still confuse me from time to time. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate - 25% complete. Turns out that you can in fact get PE ... absolutely sure that I had a snowball’s chance in hell of getting the position

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  get a lot more done over spring break in all my classes. Consequently, I ... , but losing spring break productivity to vacation in the Virgin Islands ... a pretty cool place to hang out. Especially in february. What you

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  would like us to call you—preferred first name. Preferred first name is the name we will use in all official print and email communication from ... may use your preferred name or your legal name in communications
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  Meeting about Amazingly-small Rocks and Computers), and I get to be there ... get to hang out with these people who are much brighter than me and ... realizing how hard it is to write live while only using the top ten hundred

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024