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• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT consider extracurriculars?

  apiculture (beekeeping) to building nuclear reactors in their garages. We ... realize that students in the U.S. have a huge array of extracurriculars to ... . Remember that your application is reviewed in context, and that we look to
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  . With Pass/No Record in place to make the transition easier, first ... . The primary time to have fun during the year lies in breaks. Whether ... forward to another great one. Tune in next time for a post about IAP, all of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  potatoes. What did my mom have to endure to get to her favorite pizza in the ... in "Spider-Man" for about 3 minutes, too. Surely, you had to see ... starring in "The Man With The Screaming Brain," he also found time to write

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  lesson in Italian: "Voray ordinare" Translation: I would like to order ... Pizza Now here in the US, I've heard this pizza referred to as a "Blonde ... joke that I'm not going to say in my blog for fear of offending my yellow

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  enjoy meeting people from other schools and getting to know them. At MIT ... universities in the area added to that experience even more. Not to mention, I ... "   I’ve tried my best in college to speak with as many people who are

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Saturday Night in Simmons it's so busy here tonight [i really need to study or go to sleep]

  

  Y'all. Simmons is bustling tonight. I realized while going to get ... enough space to run around. And some good shoes you can hard brake in. I ... sleeping or studying. I do actually need to lock in for my two finals next

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to ... how to become a kitchen god. [caption id="attachment_74200" align ... to keep cooking, but as entropy in the form of psets and classes would

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  to invest time in making the trek over there, I want it to be worth it ... friends this summer eventually turned into, “it’s too much effort to get ... officially enrolled! Step 5. Get yourself to Harvard The inefficiency of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  ’re going to get in (relevant fun fact: MIT doesn’t do legacy admissions ... about EA decisions being released next week. And I wanted to check in ... didn't get admitted to MIT. Here’s what you should read this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  of people in hundreds of different professions from hair dressers to ... human factors in what we bring to and need from our work. The one story ... behavior and human foibles just by observing people in relation to their cars

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  When I graduated in 2018, I was talking to my partner about how lost ... routine. I invest in acupuncture and massage appointments to help my muscles ... , partly because I wake up at 8:55am to get to a 9am class. Every morning I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  wanted to preface this post real quick by jumping in and giving a little ... we were in Random. As a joke, Raymond decided he wanted to "secretly ... months I have been secretly training in chess with hopes to beat Aidan

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  you the boot in the butt and tells you to get lost. And then what do you ... wires to a telephone jack, talked about knitting a hat but had no clue how to actually do it, and video chatted with my grandparents in China

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  , we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style ... assigned to narrate a short story of our own, in both our favorite and least ... what is to come to me as it just so happens I was and the in the items in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  equation, not to mention slightly more German. I was awash in sleepiness ... want to make the point that the entire ordeal in real-time was treated ... -needed arguments were raised in the early stages of the battle, not to mention a few

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  - what you'll get involved with, how you'll contribute to our culture and ... simply need to get over). Once the EA apps are in, the questions and ... 'll get there. In the meantime, I'm determined not to feel guilty if I need

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blog Links If you have a blog, share the URL in this thread!

  

  , leave a comment with the URL. Let's see how many we can get! ... I haven't disappeared, really! Just haven't had a ton of things to ... & stories from CPW. In the meantime, some random stuff in no

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  . thinking about this room makes me kinda sad. east campus is scheduled to get renovated next summer, and if that happens as planned, i won't get to spend my ... the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... engineering in mit, but dont know how to do that! i am taking SAT in february ... mom asked, "So, my kid is coming to EC in less than two weeks (EEEEEK

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  out at like 3, how do you not get enough sleep?” To little high school ... actually money. You have $24 and in one day you must decide how to spend that ... Brady's house, tried to get into some tall buildings, but it was like 1 in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015