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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  us and promises to be a grand ole time. I'm especially excited about ... , IAP is a really great time to start because you can work up to 40 hours per week with your supervisor, giving them a lot of time to train you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here ... reason. The ~week after we got the notice to move out was... a lot. The timeline is a little hard to explain just because sooooo much happened, but I

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  force it. this week, i went to a ballroom dancing class with a friend, and i also went to the first-ever social action fair, which is a fair ... weird adjusting to a new dorm culture as a senior, particularly because

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  work A: yeah and i bet they're saying to themselves A: look at these ... A: well i wanted to say, oh shoot, it's another person, act normal B ... "we're all trying to act normal" isn't weird A: we're driving in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  certainly not forgotten. I've got a blog post in the works about how to write ... this day. Today I am just going to rip a post from Ta-Nehisi Coates - an ... to the starry universe? I mean, seeing the universe as a job? (Not to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  got to knock off a task that is surprisingly easy to finish at MIT--participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or ... a Glee themed event, there was little opportunity to go wrong--until I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  ... ;) Where architecture comes to life with wood and more.Two afternoons each week, I work as a monitor at the N51 Woodshop. In Building N51, next to ... Laura did a pretty great job covering the variety of machine shops

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  mit x caltech rivals to lovers another comic shitpost

  

  i made this in a day and sacrificed a pset youre welcome

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  performance groups do their semester performances, and i don't go to a lot of ... thinking about a lot, and i'm trying to involve frosh with its development ... sessions, each around four to five hours. it was a lot of dnd in a short time

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  decided to do you one better and give you a bit of a dorm tour! So here are a few glimpses of the Haus. (The Haus/House spelling used to be an ... moved to a more central area of the building. Want a picture with a view

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  a few weeks ago, and asked us to apply some of the concepts we learned ... last thing I want after a week of lectures is a lecture on “how to be a ... should give me a well-rounded introduction to engineering leadership.

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  Google Last year during freshman fall, I made a couple of guides to random things on campus. I'd like to bring that back this year, along with a much ... 'm doing this semester is here - it's a guide to nice places to work on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT ... to take, so many clubs i was never a part of, so many parts of campus i ... on one hand, i am really excited to spend a lot of time on some

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  , to talk about their experiences as a WISE student, host, and admissions ... to fit in because she was cool. She applied anyway because MIT was a ... remember going to House 2, a living group in [annotation note=" one of the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It ... through lecture halls’ doors Proclaiming that they have a message of love to ... why You mean so much to me. Poor soul, poor soul You’re often scorned

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Gave Love A Bad Name A night of talent.

  

  is basically a talent show with acts ranging from magic acts to dances ... decided to juggle knives while "surfing" on a makeshift surfboard consisting ... Heaven. A tribute to Santana with some behind the back guitar playing AND

  • by Bryan
  • October 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  -level classes, you literally have a trial period to assess yourself so you know ... .111[/annotation] is known to have a much lower pass rate than tests like [annotation note="Intro to Python, which isn't going be a thing anymore but they

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  stuff, what have you -- I try to always keep a tab on what's going on in ... -annual gaming convention to celebrate Twitch as a live streaming platform! Content ... incredibly hectic. I tried to make a list of events I wanted to go to and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  . Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend ... 't get to do a Questions Omnibus before I left, but I promise to do one ... urges to blog every time I see a computer...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT if I am not selected as a QuestBridge Finalist?

  If you applied for the QuestBridge Match but were not selected as a Finalist, you are still welcome to apply to MIT through our Regular Action cycle using our application portal. If you are not a Finalist, you must