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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  that advice. I do it myself sometimes, usually when I'm in a terrible ... what pass/no-record will be for you. Personally, I've always believed in ... choice of "this is what I am willing to give up", that wasn't a part of the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  for fun! What made you want to come to the MIT fly-in? “I live in a ... “I live in a town of around 4,000 people, and a two hour drive from the ... admissions in a more positive perspective. I have realized it is a human

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  comfortable riding a bike, I was nine years old, and In the past decade I have ... a few days later I found myself in the passenger seat of Raphael's '88 ... -from-bear response kicks in. A few minutes later, I was definitively out of steam, so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  settling in for an hour long T ride DO NOT eat a McGriddle right before, the ... it off and never think about it again. Sorry, “How do I get in” is a ... application. “What do you do purely for fun?” is a subtle check to make sure

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: I've suddenly become a Plant Dad (tm) and am growing tomatoes in my office window The ... your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  express to the world what being a student at MIT is like. You should ... ’s like to be in a Sadoway lecture, or planning stuff for REX, or UROPing ... life at MIT is a perspective only you can provide, so you should feel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  preview weekends coincide. What should I do? I know a lot of people who had ... composer, and once I went to a Boston Pops concert and this girl who was in ... -MIT organizations too. What will dorm life be like? I don't know where I'll fit in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  skyline of a city I call genuinely like calling home. In a quick recap of ... Interphase EDGE, a decent amount of people did not think I was a student in the program, and I was used as a fictional character in one of the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  As you hopefully already know, I am a sophomore in Course 20 here at ... increased by a factor of 1.75 while falling. What is its change in free energy ... that I am a biological engineering major. Moreover, even though I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  feeling even older than I did, stamped my form in a huff, and I booked it ... is on my lap (where a laptop should be, I guess) and my headphones are ... , for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  the perceived finality of writing. 1. Being hosed I was trapped in a ... made me prioritize my obligations in a messy and unhealthy way. I was ... year. In one of my first ever blog posts I wrote as a freshman – titled

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  offal and exotic meats – a few days ago I heard about a chef in Taiwan who ... to enshrine moments in time. This semester I took a [annotation note ... [annotation note='cj: what an enduring analogy. i wrote a whole post about the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  better than what I've seen in the wake of these events that have happened ... :45 last night warning me to stay inside, I couldn't really process what was going on. The idea of a shooting occurring on campus was impossible in my

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if my country has a different academic calendar?

  We're aware of the different academic calendar in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, South Africa, and other countries in the southern hemisphere. Students from these countries may apply to MIT before completing
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  what I remember it as. The posters no longer wake me up in a fright in ... accent wall in a deep, dark red—colors I chose as a fledgling teenager trying to develop a style. I’d had other bedrooms, before then, like when I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  Before getting too far into this entry, let me just say that I and ... schools who email with the question: "What now? I don't know what to do." My ... remain. I also saw a freshman for New Orleans. The mall that he did his pre

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  Auroux, who is a simply outstanding professor. I was actually IN THE SAME ... sentences like "I have 6.001 in 10-250 at 2:30, then my Course 9 UROP in ... - or course, with a lower-case c - in each department also is designated

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  about deferring for a year, and here I am giving you information on how ... ? Well... yes, and no. For every class you pass (i.e., get a C average or ... take are comparable to what you’d see during term, so it’s also a good

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  the fact that I was taking classes I was genuinely interested in, plus a ... - I really do mean it. A case in point: last semester, Melis and I ended ... .03 - Differential Equations (5-0-7) Ah, math. I like this course a lot, in large part

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  in a very long time. So I heave the pretty incredible stash of lined ... ). I think I like it today. What I mean is, the sun is coming up. In the ... great. I guess I'd say it's a bit more touristy in that it's kept really

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006