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• FAQ / First-year application

  What if my application is disrupted by a major event beyond my control?

  benefit or advantage in doing so, and you should feel at ease applying ... that our hearts go out to you. We understand that there is a lot on your ... unable to complete your application by our deadlines. In the interim
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  ways I couldn't have imagined as a freshman, so I'm happy to share their ... to MIT, I never really saw myself as a sorority girl, although I was ... about community and a support network, and through my sorority, I

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which ... homeland, I would lose a new life. To even imagine what the undocumented ... sheer terror of waiting for a Permanent Resident status. I had discovered

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  don't ever blog about what we do. Laura did field hockey, I'm in pistol ... (dodgeball, flag football, air pistol). Not a lot is said about these, I guess ... , promptly filling him with little holes. In between turkeys I watched some of

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  get a start on the college exploration process. For that later group I have a little treat... OK, that might be a bit of an exaggeration. I don ... checking out, if I don’t say so myself. I will point out that the podcast

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An Enigma Wrapped In A Riddle A prize will go to the first person to unwrap this mystery.

  

  constructing this "structure" in his front yard. I know that many of you are ... applications and I promise you that no one will be harmed! Take a moment to examine John's front-yard project. Drop me a line if you think you know what

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 27, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  it does make me feel better for a little bit. As I mentioned in an ... When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to ... stressed that I can barely quiet the buzz of all the bees in my head--I go

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  conversations, I found a group of people in Course 2 that I enjoyed talking to and ... meetings and started reading different papers to get a better idea of what I ... interested in studying more next year, although I'm not 100% sure on what

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  whimsically signed, yfnhmc (your friendly neighborhood house meeting chair)

  

  ?  DIDION: What. Second, a classic Maya Angelou:  I am convinced that most ... do is Live in ecstasy, I know what's best for me I can't help it, it ... ! [He pulls up a loose floorboard. He then saws a table in half] I will

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 19, 2026
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  generations of students. As someone active in student government, I spend a lot ... than I've seen run for any position in East Campus. We talked about ... hall gets a single vote in HouseComm). Eventually, Conor '07 (of 2nd West

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  was safe to take a look. Before I venture any further, I'd like to ... hallucinations of a McDonald's worker on NyQuil, so I departed to my floor in ... Tonight, I emerged from a coma of essay-writing and unglued my gaze

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Action deadline is almost here The only thing scarier than October 31st is Nov 1st (just kidding, no need to…

  

  ’t be answering the phone over the weekend, but a few of us will check ... : Early Action applications should be submitted by 11:59pm Eastern Time on November 1. (There is a small amount of grace period for students having

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  . Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was dedicated to LEGOs. I have three brothers, so we racked up quite a few LEGO ... one of the coolest classes I've ever taken. I learned a lot about the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Activities Midway Each year, MIT exhibits its 300+ student activities. Friday, I checked them out for you.

  

  power of self-governance here! [full disclosure: I am a former officer of ... , which was held in the Johnson Athletic Center. When I arrived, I was ... (check out her button!). Yummy... Because you could not be there, I took

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  A Collection of Creative Questions A collage of some of my silliest assignments

  

  I think a lot of MIT professors have a humorous side, and most of ... I thought this abbreviation of the word "Methods" was a very ... ? Did one matching before I realized this wasn't an actual bonus question

  • by Richard O. '28
  • February 28, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  I've been on campus for over a week now, which basically means that I ... considered trying to move to East Campus for awhile, but in the end I decided ... . Unfortunately, we weren't able to get a picture before the bike fell. More

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  NOTHING! However, I got a 5 on Physics B and was kind of bored in 8.01. I ... World, or what I imagine Boy Meets World would have been like if I had ever watched it. Anyway, no. What I really couldn't help thinking of was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  UMass Boston sophomore, and a Harvard senior. What a cool mix! And now I ... audition for a play, something I hadn’t done in over ten years. It worked out ... League of Massachusetts, I completed my final Youth Advocate training (a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  up clarifications of concepts we learned in class, I get a slew of ... source: http://xkcd.com/863/ Last night, I had a convincing nightmare that I was trying to double major in 18 and 6-3 and had mysteriously

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Re-Introduction of Sorts Hi, my name is Bryan.

  

  When I was in kindergarten, I failed dance class. Good thing that ... years and here I am a senior at MIT. Interesting how that happens. Somewhere in between kindergarten and senior year, I realized that dance was

  • by Bryan
  • September 14, 2006