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• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  things people are doing over the summer--you're interested in me, because I ... smart enough to be here. And while I do see validity in these questions, what I think is more important is how they answered--instead of answering

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m taking college classes, do I apply for transfer admission?

  The transfer process is intended for students who have finished high school and completed at least one year of college. If you're still in high school, you're considered a first-year applicant regardless of how many
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  ) In conclusion, thanks to all of the prefrosh who I met for: -making me realize how lucky I am to be a blogger (apparently it will be the most ... I had a blast during CPW and I hope you all did too! Here's a rundown

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  ." What's particularly amazing about Smyly's status in the Infinite is how ... Note: The following is adapted from an article I wrote for CMS.350 ... awesome people like Smyly, and I figured you might want to hear about him

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  years of involvement in Burton Conner government, I've seen how staunch administration seems in their decision to oust murals. I did, however, get a ... of years. I'll be long gone, but I have a lot of faith in the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  . (I'm still really bitter though. Grr.) Friday, 19:15 In the last 30 ... movie! I would have KNOWN that!" (This is a huge accomplishment for me. I ... put it all in a safe place with the operator. I took a picture for your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  together at the only store open in the whole place. I had some miraculous ... . It is just beautiful out here; I would recommend at least taking a ... —writing and taking pictures—but I felt myself drifting in and out of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  You may have noticed that the application for the class entering in ... to wait until the very last minute. While I certainly won’t extol the ... . There are some things about how you complete the application that can

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  me to do the session there since I ate quite a few meals in that same ... but we hadn't announced yet precisely what day it would be. I did ... frustration as those present absorbed what I had said. I watched in interest as

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  to feel like some "other" major (I'm in such a major!). That said, the ... I know I haven't written anything lately. Portraying MIT feels a bit weird now because my boyfriend, a sophomore in mechanical engineering, has

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  snowstorm tomorrow? You know what this means….Battle #3!". Dan and I are in ... be made into snow fighting artillery. When I met up with Dan in Killian ... snowman experience below: (Note: I promise that I have a non-snow related

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT ... a train in Switzerland. I was worried about finding a replacement ... that I've loved ever since. So I thought that there would be a pretty big

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  three different aliases in the blogosphere) and I prepared a modest ... ’d caught herself in a pre-college Alaskan life), and I stumbled through the ... our Thanksgiving Friday schedule, Denali and I would not miss the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

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

  -degree student. Exchange students are affiliated with a university in which MIT has ... are very few of these arrangements. MIT participates in the Exchange ... information on registration procedures. In all programs, students must
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Calm Down and Breathe Heeeeeehooooooo

  

  In which my brother and I embarassingly parody a song (first one to recognize it gets some brownie points):  Edit: Evidently I am not so good at predicting outcomes of NFL games. But seeing how this post-season has been

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Institute (or how it was thirty years ago; in our internet age you might know ... First and foremost: I am an EC, and EC's don't make admissions decisions. We are just people who once went to MIT (maybe in a time when it

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

  On abnormality

  

  sharpener in the back?)... and then I would carefully organize them so they ... this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if ... stored it in my Athena locker. One of my more notorious quirks is that I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  apartment in Hell's Kitchen a mile from Times Square. I can't say how much ... how much time I've spent finding new places in the city. Everything is ... I started obsessively checking the news sometime in middle school. I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  Last year, I spent the entire summer working at ETS in Princeton, New ... languages I’m really interested in are Chinese and French. Since I ultimately ... -up. From mid-June to mid-August, I will be working with a professor in the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  busy city square across from a Chinese restaurant, and I would definitely ... . Previously, I only seen it modeled in chocolate. I sat down and watched the ... special how she smeared herself with purple Crisco before a Grateful Dead

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006