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• Blog / MIT Life

  How I Won a Costume Contest some glue but no borax

  

  time here at MIT I have already been exposed to so many decks of cards ... collected all my candy. At 6, the costume contest started! And of course, as ... I love Halloween. It’s the only time of year where it’s socially

  • by Leya E. '30
  • November 1, 2026
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  knowledgeable letter on your behalf. A few sentences at the top of a letter ... We require letters of recommendation for our application. We strongly ... you a letter. We encourage you to try to get letters of recommendation
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  , at the moment, and I miss the spontaneity of last semester. I honestly ... go to singing lessons and get better at fingerpicking songs instead of ... A couple updates: I quit two of my jobs I'm taking 4 classes and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  ... Like most MIT students, at the start of every semester I make my trip ... several types of coins in both currencies, in case the toll booth at the ... passing thought. One of my new housemates lives west of me, within the US

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  posted last week, we have been working through our buckets and buckets of mail since the New Year. However, as of tonight, we have finished processing all mail, hand-checked all filing cabinets, scoured all of our faxes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  line of the guys' race, which at that moment has to be the most ... our last race of the season" or "first time at Regionals" to "this is my ... Lab, and those students are assessed by members of the program (staff or

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  ). And then we played host! In the course of 24 hours, our visitor got a glimpse of sorority life at MIT, witnessed some pre-test tension (and post ... A couple weeks ago, an excited exclamation was heard, as one of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  consuming as it is awesome, so I've spent most of the last week staring at ... you can see in my bio, I'm a senior at MIT this year. I'm taking a lot of awesome classes. One of them is 6.131: Power Electronics. It's a lab

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  , the conclusion of our transfer admissions cycle, seems as good a time as ... lot of great students we weren't able to admit. It's true that MIT ... admission. I'm sure that among this group of students we weren't able to admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  St. George’s Day England's National Day

  

  this at the local supermarket: The signs say Happy St. George's Day, Wednesday 23 April and has a picture of a knight on a horse. I was with another MITer at the time and neither of us knew what St. George's Day was

  • by Cambridge
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  you ever been walking down the hall and caught a whiff of rotting flesh? Maybe heard the sounds of a shuffling creature behind you, limping and ... at MIT realize that a zombie invasion is a serious threat, one that

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  of Your Friends How to Avoid Being Set Up How to Pin a Boutonniere ... of, in my opinion, are these student faculty dinners. **2007 Student ... interact more closely with some of your favorite professors from over your

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  deal of my downtime at the lab today studying for the GRE, and it sucks ... factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get everything together so that I have the majority of my applications completed

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Saturday

  

  Spring has sprung at MIT, with flowers in bloom across campus... The awesome folks at the East Campus dormitory built a giant hammock ... top of a lounging student's head. A touch football game broke out on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  at the water, and there was a lot of foam floating around. One of our ... times.” "One of our students said that his dream is to study history at ... that." "There was a banner at the opening ceremony! The president of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  ." Not wanting to check at school I simply ignored them and put them out of ... knew it, Yuki and I were at the end of the Red Line and were greeted by ... all of the news cameras. At last count there was FOX, CBS, CNN, and ESPN

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  into embroidery, (2) a magnificent social discovery, and (3) a gallery of ... , in our freshman year at MIT, but I think our story really starts on a sunny day in the fall of our sophomore year. She approached me in the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  's frosh."]move[/annotation]at the end of the year. And now in sophomore year ... of myself as "being in Boston" when I'm at MIT; now, I'm just "being ... " over and over. If necessary to lighten the mood, finish with one play of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  consulting job to go analyze baseball? A: "Well, most of my income at the time ... a lot of hooky during your day job and win money at online poker ... unemployed college freshman."  And the best part of being a prufesssional riter

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  happened to be located in the basement of our lab building at MIT. It was ... IAP makes everything at MIT more enjoyable. The past week has pretty much been a whirlwind of activity. For once I have absolutely no problem

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008