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• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  in the blogs about how important your living group is to your MIT ... As you may know, I lived in Next House as a freshman, and while it ... Residence-Based Advising (RBA). RBA is a lot like ordering a Big Mac and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus Activities What to do while not learning.

  

  challenge would be a fun activity to partake in. Not familiar with the gallon ... (any % although whole is more manly) 2) You can't vomit I'm the one in ... So, now that you're on campus, you have all this free time, right? I

  • by Snively '11
  • September 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  enjoyably intense focus on or absorption in a task. Flow is the best thing ... . I've found that my writing is better when I'm in a mental state ... Not every writer is an artist. Not every piece of writing is a work

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria ... recently, to get a small phone to use while in Nigeria. It always pulses with ... -minded noises in response while working on a short story that looked funnily

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  . I know that is a lie from Lord Voldemort. The main comparison that I ... been a humbling experience. I am full of gratitude to you, our class of ... lessons from you, I have cried for you. I had a really horrible physics

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  . That shift in mentality is honestly what has kept me sane in being a ... loved it. Science bowl, for those of you who haven’t heard of it, is a ... (I was more of a math person at that point), dragged in my physics

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  A friend in the class of mine which has a huge pset due tomorrow ... long night ahead of you." Great. The thing is, I know how to handle these ... Of Toolage, cementing its place in history. As long as there is MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: The 2016 Siemens Competition is now open

  

  is the Siemens Research Competition. MIT is a University Partner for ... wanted to share a PSA! Sorry I haven't blogged much over the last few weeks ... As I've blogged before, many students who are interested in MIT are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  a week of wireless internet in the bathtub and reading by the fireplace. My actual purpose today is to talk a little bit about selecting a ... any major. A list of degree programs is here (I find this list SUPER

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  calling myself a writer, and that I've become much more interested in ... , there is a blog post associated with that day. This is in spite of a ... is not a particularly interesting age, and the past year itself has

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  between properties, and a giant tear in a friend's jeans as she tried to ... . Doable in a week, even. Little did I know that it would take over a month ... found a 2080-ft 5-bed, 2-bath located in Central that was just barely

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  mind-opening. The course is open to pretty much anyone in the MIT ... you have to do is submit a project and budget proposal in order to ... resource. Everyone at MIT is talented and driven. In a couple decades, they

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  There comes a time in everyone's MIT experience, from the application ... down a list of things to remember. Things that, in an ideal world, we ... Awesome, a VlogBrothers, or John and Hank Green, run charity event in

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  of my work there in the form of a letter of reference or is my noting ... white, no one deferred in EA is guaranteed a spot in RA. They'll all go ... here in Kuwait. It is vital for me to receive my admissions decision

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  think of it as a wearable yearbook. The 2014 ring is much the same way ... Jobs. In the beaver's right hand is a candle with a screw jutting out ... name, got his Master's in City Planning, and in a way, he planted the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment ... understand who you are - in context. Remember, we don't get a chance to meet ... connect. Crafting a class is similar - we go into painstaking detail to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  I'm a little exhausted from answering questions right now, so this is ... suggestions as to the application process? How was it when you applied? How is ... -- write them, put them in a drawer for a few days, come back, revise, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  . Simon: When you do math in public, how do people generally react? Is this ... In a few minutes I'll head over to the committee room to begin Day 7 ... guys are just awesome and inspiring. Probably a combo of the two. In any

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  -- it is this Monday, November 1. In an effort to be helpful and ease ... more than happy to help. A few FAQs: The deadline is November 1 ... showing on MyMIT; we currently have a backlog of materials in our processing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  country of your choice, given that there is a MISTI program available in ... daughter instead, which was a much better situation cause her house is super ... Hey Internet, how’s it going? Good? Good! Personally, I’ve had a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016