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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the ... students just how awesome the humanities and arts are here. I had great ... to mention in music composition, and in ethnomusicology? So I asked

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  physics discoveries, and I tend to get a tad sidetracked in the popular ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a ... great mathematicians. I always found it pretty neat to learn about the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  get hot, which was great in the early mornings and late evenings when my ... faith in my ability to grow and become a great artist. Music is an ... that IAP. But this quarantine I decided to go all-in and get my money

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  in your apartment and you will not be able to get rid of me, Eva, I ... think I just will never be able to fully let go of my inhibitions in the way that you do. I think at some point in our friendship, I used to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  , awesome entry. I heard that Random is very selective (hard to get into) how ... . However, I feel like I've been so delinquent in responding to comments on ... start out in multi-variable and try to review single-variable and hope

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  train to arrive, and the trip itself is around ten minutes. I get off in ... try to be speedy in my getting ready. We still leave too late to be on ... would want to do MISTI; in fact, I was set to do it last summer, but

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  I'm given to understand that at other colleges, students actually get ... year struggles, I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of this whole ... groups get together at the end of the semester to schedule next semester

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  fitness in January 2023, so I just had to get from 26.2 miles up to 100 ... lord, applying to jobs SUCKS. If you're not getting a referral or an "in ... 't think for a second that you're guaranteed to get in or stand a better

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18 ... 've been trying to decide whether or not to switch into 5.112. I'm in it for ... with classes every day at 3, which is great because I don't learn well in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  great chance to get outside and watch some fire athleticism on Roberts and ... . We are currently 6-1 in conference play and getting ready to begin the ... playing ever since. I didn’t always know I wanted to play in college, but

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  a great time! [You can click on the pics below to enlarge them ... nothing else in it, so I decided to fill it up with things that I've seen ... , Alchemist, Simmons Hall, Stata Center[/caption] I get this urge to keep every

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  dearly. My own history with whiteboards, how I use them in my life, and perhaps most importantly, how to fix old and dirty whiteboards. You know how ... ’m starting this off with the how-to guide. All that other content is down below

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  hope you had an umbrella, Mollie. (Yes, I decided to watch in on TV ... . Title Link: I Am Prepared, get it? IAP... (it's okay if you don't want to laugh) My primary mission is to start working on my new project in lab

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  (crossing our fingers we get in somewhere) New York! We went to New York to ... /relationships. Overall we enjoyed getting taken back into the story. It was a great way to ... in the semester, and covers all the material up to that point (which

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the ... know how many students remain on the waitlist, and how many we wish to ... waitlist this year? It is impossible to know. We will have no idea how many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  division biology elective which gets great reviews in the student subject ... take 21A.100 (Intro to Anthropology) -- I'm concentrating in anthropology ... knows how I write, so I won't get the obligatory first paper boost for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  have a lot of time that we don't know what to do with. in fact, in the ... high school. wild... i can't speak to how other MIT students are ... changed SO much since then. at MIT, you don't really get time to read unless

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  schools admit you, you'll go on to achieve great things in life. This is ... -curriculars, either in an essay or on the application form, try to make it more than a ... In my previous entry, Joan Tran from Louisiana asked for some general

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  syllabus (written, to my surprise and great relief, in modern English) into ... my solution will get graded. To my delight, my theoretical training in ... our solar system, and getting a broad introduction to the universe using

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to ... about how they would handle the fall, I decided to seriously consider taking leave. I realized that taking leave would allow me to feel in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020