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• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  Hi everybody! I was busy this [annotation note="IAP, for y ... , stands for Independent Activities Period, and takes place for all of ... -imposed activities like clubs, or a handful of sped-up, all-consuming classes. Everyone

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here comes another confession of cultural ignorance, I did not know what cream tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  , it looks more like this because who even goes to all of their classes ... ’t going to attend any of my Monday classes) Sophomore Standing If you ... gets rid of the 57 unit credit limit that second semester freshmen

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  there is...a lot about the school that a lot of people don't know about ... nerd school. Frat Life A little over 50% of MIT male undergraduates are ... With the influx of the 24s terrorizing (see: joining) various Discord

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  Twitch laid off 20% of its staff, I accepted UW’s offer. A few months later ... that keeps me going through the slog of grad school is knowing that what ... job??? The latter of which actively have a hard deadline??? But then

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  at some of some of the blogging highlights of Ben's 4 years (and 194 ... to hide from us and our pursuit of content. And we promise to serve you ... Ben's first post of emotional truth. If more people in admissions could

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  The May 1 reply deadline has come and gone, and we know many of you ... , we had a record-high percentage of admitted students choosing to enroll at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the "yield") of greater

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  college acceptance, a job offer, moving into a new apartment. but a lot of ... overheard snippets of conversation between students that remind me of past phases of my life. a while back, i was waiting in atlas to get my ID card

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  rhapsodize about a slice of sweet, crunchy red apple dipped in balsamic vinegar ... flesh into a pool of red-freckled $11.99-per-bottle-balsamic, a tableful of faces stared in suspended disbelief, munchlessly unaware of how

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a high school student taking college classes. Do I apply for transfer admission?

  finished high school and who will have completed at least one year of college ... If you are still in high school, you are considered a first-year applicant regardless of how many classes you have taken at the university
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  even wrote about a pair of Spider-Man Shoes I had painted in high school ... went into the making of an article like this, and what it's like to do a ... Student I have been a big fan of Marvel ever since 2016. I get pretty hyper

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  game. Each class taken unlocks branches of other exciting classes, and there are always tons of great options to choose from. But sometimes ... ] alone, it can be a bit overwhelming trying to construct a roadmap of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  talking about the general excitement of being back at school. It was so nice ... shiny new return offer to go back and work on Minecraft next summer. Yes ... incredible excited for a lot of these classes, but mostly just the prospect of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  I am taking 5 minutes out of my life just to let you all know why I ... . It's an entire sheet of loose-leaf paper. With 2 exceptions, every item ... finished today. Speaking of starred items, I between taking that photo 3

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  When I got my first guitar at age 3, I immediately began dreaming of ... to college - I played solo in coffeehouses, as half of an acoustic duo in auditoriums, as part of a band in various bars & clubs. I sang

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005
• 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 ... About two years ago at school I was sitting in the computer lab during lunch when a friend of mine ran over and said "You have to watch

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2029 are now ... the MIT Class of 2029, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have offered early admission to 721. Though they are all different in their own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  , Berkelee School of Music, Wellesley, Brandeis, and the Marine Biological ... existed. These schools all get to offer their students privledges at MIT ... Hey again world, it's me, Ruth, friend of Sam. Regardless of Sam

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  trek: it's the library for the Sloan School of Management, which is all ... I have embarked, dear reader, upon a reading tour of my own. I have ... perusal in the tome below. Depending how you count, MIT either has a lot of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  + conservatory students from the Longy School of Music of Bard College. The MA kids ... really brilliant, and I wish I wrote more of these down, but I was too busy ... , according to the program bio, "Music Director of both the Simón Bolivar

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014