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• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  thrive and succeed at MIT.   I took the subject tests. Can I submit ... for tests they wouldn't have to take for us, especially during a public ... as part of the admissions process. You can read about our revised

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What other student activities can I do?

  You can do anything we already offer on campus, or you can start your own "thing" at MIT! Check out Campus & Student Activities to see what's going on around campus, or check out a list of active groups from
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  ]Chris Peterson '13[/intro] As you can tell from my avatar, I had hair when I ... happened before and there was no obvious way to fix it. I went for a consult ... (unintended) green hair for a month. It looked like I had moldy hair. That was

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  if I let it see me, From the top of that tree that everyone else can ... happy?” She’s cool, and she knows it. It’s a simple thing for her. I hate ... beginning of my ~emo phase~...[/caption] “I am not cool” said a teenage girl

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  Late last month, on July 25th, I boarded a Lufthansa flight from ... hospitality I was shown. I don't know where I will go next. All I can do - all ... in a kind of academic olympics. At IOI 2015, 322 students from 83

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  It's been hectic for past few days; I had my first German vocabulary test yesterday and I had to learn like ein bazillion words for that, and ... year. So, while I'd really like to write a really long and complicated

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  until 3 am. on wednesday night, i hang out with people from esp. it was a ... thursday, i go to mit mental health for my appointment. we talk for a little ... off for a while because i was busy. i sleep at 3 am again. on friday

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  can say is that there's a lot in the environment, the way that I grew up ... a sense of value from it. No algorithm or studying heuristic, I think ... justify my Wikipedia-based procrastination.) Where am I going with this? A

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  , Stuntcopter. I think for a time there I thought my dad must play fun games for a ... Mac. I can make a Windows machine go, and I can bumble around a *nix ... I was in college, I took a job working for Apple as a Campus

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  HST Forum 2006… for real The real thing.

  

  recipient of a Presidential Medal in 2001." I will post photographs of the poster session once I can steal them from the MIT News Office. I know for a ... AIDS Research Center, a world-renowned biomedical research institute. He

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  into the pace of one while the other is in my head. Where “I Know a Man ... I have a way of always picking really time-consuming HASS classes ... today, say, I got up at 5:30am to start studying for my 8.06 midterm

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  where I can predict what they’ll say next because we talk literally ... going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for ... confidence of a freshman faking it until she made it. I hadn’t expected the

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Design in Boston [By Doug '14] Events that showcase the creative capital in and around Boston.

  

  [By Doug Sanchez '14] After taking 2.97 (Design for People) I changed my major to 2A and decided to concentrate in product design. I was ... cross-registered at MassArt where I am taking Industrial Design 1. Though

  • by ARTalk
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  for the film ( a travelogue of sorts from Dengue Fever's visit to ... Any time I have disappeared off the face of the earth - or just from the blogs- it can be blamed on one of two things: 1) The Shift and A

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  , I knew we were in for a bumpy ride. The weather conditions were far ... paintballs. I hadn't played paintball since I was in high school almost a decade ago. And when I played back then, it was an unorganized free-for

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  applications in September of my senior year after I’d gone to Cambridge for a ... , definitely green). And then I would wake up from the fantasy and feel a strong ... week and next. I remember this week in late March as a very scary time

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  promise of a life where you can rise from bed in the morning and be ... . Suddenly I was on the other side of the line, separated from my family by a ... imprisoned for five years on a false rape charge. The same place where the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  , let's focus on one experience from this last year, a choice I keep ... .006 test. This was a problem. I can't study during CPW, especially since I ... out time to study for a 2.004 test, which I thought I'd have a whole

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  . I was happy to be able to help out. Now, as I watch from a hotel in thousand of miles and an entire country away (in Toronto), I can only send my ... size of the fire and frequency of water dumps), I can't help but think

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  bike lane etiquette and DON'T WALK IN THE BIKE LANE.

  

  past 3 years and intend to continue for every year that I remain a part ... intersection where I had the right-of-way and a driver turned on a yielding left ... then, and in that time I have become something of a self

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • July 21, 2026