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• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  for an official MIT media thing. Experience microfame. Regret ... /Drop out.  Make some quick cash by participating in an experimental trial ... looking like the person in your ID photo.  Hear about a celebrity sighting

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  students from the waitlist -- in an email to the office, Stu wrote, "These ... is too early to know. In a week or two, we'll once again look at where ... For the second consecutive year, we have been able to admit students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are the deadlines for first-year applicants?

  new test scores” link in the application portal. The deadline for ... We have some important deadlines listed here, but please take a look ... deadline for Early Action is November 1. We accept test results from any test
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  pleased, resulting in an ever-changing amalgam of graffiti, text, and images ... "Omnivisu," a temporary installation atop an interchange station in Berlin. The piece allowed an observer to look into a box which would then

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  … (in)tense. I haven’t experienced that much uncertainty in my life ... Applicant for the Class of 2021, and see how you’re doing. If you ... then say whether they did or did not get in. Trust me, there’s no

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  apply to be an admissions blogger next year? Contact us in August and let ... been piling up in my inbox... Where the heck have you been?!? April 6-9 was CPW, followed by my first real vacation in over a year. A whole week

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  birthday. Clayton decided that we would celebrate in style with a "Gentlemen ... , I didn't have any "formal" clothes, especially not for warm weather. I hadn't worn a skirt or dress since I was junior in high school. I doubt

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  I got my first piercing in eighth grade, at Walmart. I had done horribly in a Mathcounts competition, so my mom and I decided that I should ... mom said wouldn’t my newly androgynous haircut look wonderful with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  [/caption] being swiped into Next Dining i lived in Burton Conner, a Cook-For ... , Mocha Moves, prepares for our annual show, which is held in early February ... was to perform an entire show for my friends and family. i don't regret

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  -Orientation Program (FPOP) The applications are due June 15th! SIGN UP FOR AN FPOP ... are twenty-two FPOPs offered in August, and each one gives an amazing ... involves taking 3-4 classes in a certain subject. For example, I plan on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  list are invariably awesome, and we hope to find a space for them in our ... space in the class for students who have remained on the wait list.   To ... students will accept our offer of admission and enroll at MIT in the fall (as

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  . Founded in 1989 by Segway inventor Dean Kamen, FRC is an activity where a ... in two alliances of three teams each going head to head for a few ... -game (where a special end game is setup in the last few seconds for extra points

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  aren't really looking for a precise answer; they're just trying to ... will be born on my birthday, vs. an average of 0.00274 = 1/365 for the ... * some factor accounting for the likelihood that we'd be getting married in

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  me laugh in and out of blogger meetings. Thank you for always looking ... my comfort zone. For teaching me to relax more once in a while, to ... 's presentation. The first to call during summer break. The first to go in for a hug

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

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  . This is what the East Coast looks like from an airplane window: I ... warm (and dry) in a Boston winter has been an adventure. It’s been a lot ... that do us good. It traps in and uses dead air as an insulator, keeping

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  not sound like an ass in doing so. I've got them all written down, and ... for reference, and they just end up fermenting in my camera roll. I have ... contains apps for a job that I haven't worked since I was in high school

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  -saturated “Introduction to Undergraduate Women in Physics” event that I hosted for the Class ... interpreted as a challenge for student groups to 1-up each other in distributing ... .99 for it. It's just that this one looks too much like a rickshaw. Nothing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  advisor)'s office on Tuesday in search for the answers to life, the universe ... network for a summer internship and scheduled a second meeting in a few days ... . Incidentally, he also kinda looks like Ben Affleck in Argo: Which obviously

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  polished in interviews, now that I've experienced enough of them to have an ... thing that has been paying off for me is the time I spent in UPOP (MIT ... ?" Speaking of uncomfortable situations: I was waiting for an interview lately

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  weeks for a graduate program in bioengineering. This stud sang in the a ... Massachusetts jury duty during the first week of school. Stay tuned for an ... , wrote. Interestingly, Abrams is directing Mission: Impossible 3, in which

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005