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• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  ) converge on a key research problem to focus on and make progress on it (focus ... confident to face the world, knowing my strengths and weaknesses a bit better ... of thing much more now! I tried to do research really hard. I grinded

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT if I am not selected as a QuestBridge Finalist?

  If you applied for the QuestBridge Match but were not selected as a Finalist, you are still welcome to apply to MIT through our Regular Action ... fill out the entire MIT first-year application.
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  highest suicide rate? The answer to that question is: No, this is not true ... . Most people who come to MIT are happy, well-adjusted people, and leave MIT as happy, well-adjusted people. That's not to say that MIT is never

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  returning to Boston in waves on Sunday. I was in the first wave, and per the ... Being the first three-day weekend of the academic calendar, Columbus ... sleeping marathons. Per tradition, I partook in the first of the three, as

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Sunday Everyone Go read Marilee's post... NOW.

  

  desperately to get my kids to remember who I am, I logged in to publish an "I'm excited for everyone to get their mail this week!" post. In my in-box was an email from Marilee, asking me to post her first-ever blog entry. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  was playing as it occurred to me that i have no friends in this city ... tastes sour and another friend whose chair is comfortable to sleep on. a ... overlooks a city but is not quite part of the city a thought: my capacity to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does pass/no record work?

  Here's something else to love about MIT! The first semester at MIT ... may designate up to 48 units to be graded on a pass/no record basis after your first term, and at any time during your course of study.
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  10:25pm, Friday. I was sprinting down dorm row from French House to ... ) and together we ran across the street, to pick up another junior named Bruce. The three of us speedwalked down the Infinite Corridor, and a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  is, is it better to email my EC about my interview report first, or ... the first (non-optional) essay, so is it going to be better for my ... Before I go off on vacation today, I wanted to answer as many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  counting to infinite, programs being folded into paper planes and thrown at ... English language... and I'm so dedicated to you, gentle reader, that I would indeed write a posthumous entry if I had to. This is the number one song

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  coming if it thinks giving me four days off will be sufficient bribe to ... to rise and after mumbling a couple of sleepy words no doubt filled with infinite wisdom, I realize that it’s nearly five p.m. I mumble an

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  one entrance to the Infinite Corridor, and that's through the admissions ... it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber ... , you want to know the skinny on how to get into MIT. The more I try to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come to MIT Get a free haircut!

  

  and Glory to whoever sends me the complete list first.) ... It’s spring break! Time for students to stop frantically trying to finish psets and start less-frantically trying to take care of all the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  , and i also went to the first-ever social action fair, which is a fair ... have been UROPing, starting to work on my thesis, and trying to spend as ... interested in and excited about. it is really, really, really nice to wake up

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  (You’re about to get hit with a wave of sentimentality, braces ... and sophomore year, will be moving back in next fall, and plan to keep ... every morning. I go to bed around 1 am every night and wake up around 8 am

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  When most people I know think of MIT, the first thing that leaps to ... continue to be relevant long beyond they've left MIT. I first heard about D ... to extinguish it, after the first use. This was causing a lot of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  For Those About to Dew (Also eligible for salutations: those currently rocking, those about to rock)

  

  , studying, and socializing, you're forced to choose two. Well, they're almost right... Some weeks you only get to choose one. It's a lifestyle not for ... 's the first such item I've consumed today (yesterday, today, 24 hours

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 16, 2010
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Weekend Immersion in Science & Engineering?

  -day experience for rising seniors to learn what it is like to be an MIT student. The program is completely free, including the cost of transportation to ... /or underserved backgrounds to apply, as well as students who come from low
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... 2016 FIRST Robotics FRC game at the annual kickoff event. I've blogged before about FIRST, which was a transformational experience for me as a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  have their neighbors be eaten by countries, have entries dedicated to ... (we only have to pay for the cost of our book this year, while EMT ... , listening to lectures, and training in the afternoon. (It's also the reason

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007