FAQ / First-year application
Can I take a gap year?
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FAQ / Life and culture
Can I join a fraternity/sorority?
MIT’s Fraternity, Sorority, and Independent Living Groups (FSILGs) include 26 fraternities, 10 sororities, and five living groups. With core principles of leadership, scholarship, and citizenship, the FSILG Office encourages and… -
Blog / MISTI
MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
I finished up my initial stay in Mumbai towards late December, and have been in Nepal since then. I am currently volunteering at a Buddhist ... in cooking, laundry, etc. I am having a great stay in South Asia, and I -
Blog / MIT Life
Skies over MacGregor Views of campus, Boston, and the Charles River from ten stories up.
This summer Random Hall was under construction. When I was in town I spent a lot of my time in MacGregor, which is where Cory was living for ... with tiny slits where the windows open. Again, the views are beautiful. I -
Blog / Academics & Research
How hard is it, really? Let down
hard (2.001, 8.02, 18.03, etc) but I can do them if I put in the work ... continued through IAP in January, something I didn't want to do. The first ... to do physics. I asked dozens of people in class how they knew how to -
Blog / Rural and Small-Town
my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??
institutions, I often wondered how to give back. In Fall 2023, I joined the ... school counselor handed me the microphone after her warm welcome I was in ... hadn’t even imagined existed. I totally understand where they're coming -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…
driven in a direction much more exciting and compelling than if I would ... scene in Richard III, a director can choose to play it in many different ... some very fun visual and audio effects. I worked in collaboration with -
Blog / Blog Projects
What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry
as us, and I want to represent them, even if only in small ways. (Note ... for censorship boxes.) I've also been interested in how we tell stories ... we wear and the things we use. In high school, I used to joke about how -
Blog / About Decisions
Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.
means it's exactly one year to the day when I discovered I got in. In ... other people where I'd applied early, or that I'd applied early at all ... it since we had turned in our apps. (When I was YOUR age, we didn -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Choose my Halloween Costume!
have no idea what to dress up as. In fact, I haven't actually dressed up as anything in the past few years, and this is truly sad. So, I need ... leather! I'm not sure I can pull that off!) So...any suggestions? Either -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18
respectability politics. Why can’t I just be respected? I’ve loved watching as our ... can’t we just be respected. I know drag queens who moonlight as field ... brilliant content, and I can’t help but wonder when their families will be -
Blog / Classes
day one welcome back
sessions today. In the morning, I realize this means I can sit in whatever other courses I want for the remainder of the day. Today, in artificial ... algebra class was very rigorous, and in an ideal world, I would take it -
Blog / Admissions
The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…
to chuckle. In looking back a year, he references this post, in which I discuss embarking on our new viewbook project. I can't believe it's been an ... final proofs next week - and then it's off to the presses! I can't wait to -
Blog / Admissions
Doogie Howser, et al.
successful college/MIT student? I'll be happy to answer any questions left in ... blindfolded? Can they go a whole night speaking only in palindromes? These ... "special case" questions I get is about younger students looking to apply -
Blog / Admissions
Waitlist, Etc.
would have said in his entry - please read it. I'll just add that a couple of the people of whom I spoke in this entry were admitted today. I can ... ?" (Hah! The answer is definitely 'no' - elaboration to come.) But I can -
Blog / Admissions
Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13
time to chat in the Office of Minority education, where I was able to get ... getting settled in my host's dorm at New House 2, I was pumped and ready to ... that I would have the opportunity to partake in research at MIT was -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.
more energy efficient. I did theater tech in high school, and ... . It connects back, I promise. How My Dad Crashed the Internet In ... mindless procrastination something cool from MIT. Also, I'll be telling the -
Blog / Miscellaneous
today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become
like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am ... in diary pages and used calendars. Another year until I acquired the ... , I overlook it. There are many days where I spend my minutes like poker -
Blog / Academics & Research
Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.
Gregor rooms' size. I consider MacGregor as my first choice in housing lottery ... or RNA, and I can do that using a variety of methods. 3. Danielle asked, Can we install our own window ac in any dorm room on campus? and -
Blog / Internships & Externships
soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers
's people who've been in the industry for decades now. I can't imagine that ... is a respectable want. CJ: But isn't it true that I can find that in ... 've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how