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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  Day eve and all of a sudden I have to go to school again! Weird (in an ... I’ve never really understood the appeal of beach vacations. I spend a day relaxing and then have to recover from the effort of recuperation

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  in STEM and chemical engineering, MIT was on her list of schools to ... picture of MIT as a really depressing, weird school where she wasn’t going ... would talk about school when they didn’t have to,” she said. One of the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  about fluid mechanics. Sorry, it's the time of the season for offers, and all of us poor chemical engineers planning to go to grad school and save ... never, think in bed anymore. During high school, after a hard day of work

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  make games (yes, they exist). Most of the schools I applied to were in fact these types of schools. However, MIT's games and interactive media ... schools, so I decided to apply to MIT as a bit of a long shot after my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  board games with them. you live in a place with a high density of people ... for high school students i'm teaching for, a party i'm attending. there ... . this summer, and my internship, are different in a lot of ways. the bay

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  but think of the time in high school that my friend Allison was giving ... nuclear engineers) who aren't coming right out of high school. That being ... middle of it, in the process missing the first hour of our ultra

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  get pushed to the back of my mind during the school year. All my ... the month of January: some people treat it as a four-week extension on winter break, some people take classes or work on campus, lots of people

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  ). I transferred to an international school in the middle of elementary ... a couple of times, but alas, I've broken that promise by two days. :( OK I know you guys are all sick of the whole "I'm hosed!" talk, so I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  While some of you have spent the last couple nights clutching admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been ... arrangement ever for my jazz class without being completely sure what two of the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  .8-3.9 GPA) during the last three years of high school? -Which school would you ... done this at some point, so if you know of a blogger who already has ... Brendan, MIT students go off to do a lot of different things when they

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  high school courses and colleges. McGee said he's happy to offer them any ... 'll highlight it in a future entry! A little background: back in the summer of 2003, the MIT News Office did a series of these articles called "Hometown

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What programs fall under the School of Architecture & Planning?

  within the MIT School of Architecture + Planning. The other divisions are ... Architecture was one of the four original departments at MIT, and it ... and technology. Through recognition of architecture as a liberal
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  Laura and I have the same birthday. What's the probability of that ... the lack of meaningful updates recently; my life has been tremendously busy... and classes haven't even started yet. In the past three days, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  'm unsure whether this is a symptom of the pandemic or a symptom of the dorm ... and devoid of art and light. I hate it. Perhaps hate is too strong a word and some of these unfavorable conditions should be attributed to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  busy. I didn't use to think I was the kind of person who liked being busy; after all, I'm quite lazy, and procrastinate to the point of ... immediately (<12hrs) followed the busiest work week of my life. It was a busy

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I really become an EMT?

  If the psets aren't keeping you busy enough you can become an EMT while at MIT!
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  Last Sunday, one week ago, I moved out of East Campus. The hours ... in my key and walking out the door. I knew it was coming, of course ... the moment of checking out still felt unexpected, and surprising: these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  -absorbed individuals that are too busy plotting their next breakthrough to pay any ... a professor at MIT, Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer ... , Prof. Kellis was honored as one of Technology Review’s Top 35 Innovators

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer conditional admissions?

  MIT doesn't offer any special or conditional admissions. All first-year applicants fill out the same undergraduate application and meet the same testing requirements.
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  school of my dreams was honestly one of the least exciting things I’ve done ... I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of ... Wallet receipts in my inbox, I’ve spent an average of only $4 per day on

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014