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• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  the rest of my years at MIT. right now, i'm living in a house with six ... -ending day. much of that can be attributed to how...nothing particularly new ... remind us of how quickly everything changed. the craziest, most tumultuous

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  classes at other campuses can cost several hundreds of dollars and take much ... . Yesterday I saw Monet's water lilies up close at the Museum of Fine Arts in ... ? A problem set at MIT consists of 1-23049234 ALL and then a bunch of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  that I went on a bike ride for fun, instead of just to get to class. After exploring the Minuteman trail (including a statue of Uncle Sam; did ... MIT's campus to take some pictures of MIT"s newest sport. I started out

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  . Pictures, links, narrative, and humor are a lot of work, and past freshman ... , we're going to try something new, something that's never been done on ... time you'll have a timeline snapshot of me! This is an experiment, we

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  welcome to apply. In the interest of full disclosure, however, you should ... to maintain a balance between new students and upperclassmen. That said ... me (benjones at you-know-the-rest) by August 31st, 2007 and: Provide a

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  ," ... At the end of the meal, the waitress asks us, "What is your gift to ... surreptitiously jump out of my lofted bed trying to land with a gymnast's dismount ... , I awaken to the sounds of wheels skidding on the landing strip. Woo

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  Raymond." I started seeing Raymond [annotation note="It only just hit me at ... despite being one of the biggest proponents of said rule, but let's not dig too deeply into that right now."]in October of my freshman fall

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  it feels hypocritical of me to write words to you, because even if i ... nature of writing in the admissions blogs. it's been two years, so the ... fine, but of course, it's one thing to know and another thing to believe

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  they are laughing at me, and all around me is racket of these cats not ... I have a way of always picking really time-consuming HASS classes. This semester, with two of them, Roman History (21H.302) and Reading

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

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  versions of a lot from new frosh, is "I love my temp living group and am ... batteries in my camera. Rush - REX officially - is seriously one of the best times of the year. This will, of course, be my third - I've had one from

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  at 10 am. I spend the rest of my time getting ready, reading my emails ... hour of 7 pm. I usually become aware of this fact at 6:30, so I speedrun ... back. I look at the signs and posters on the wall and admire models of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have a diverse group of ECs (just like the MIT student body) and they may have somewhat different styles of how the conversations will go, the main

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  the most general sort of advice I can offer. If you (mostly juniors, but ... in terms of general advice, let's see. There are no specific activities ... traditionally-thought-of-as-MIT-ish things like science fairs or math competitions

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  middle-of-nowhere suburbia, at 3am. Power lines and a small rickety corner ... of family and close friends) to take a look at my essays, taking care ... that I had genuinely gotten the essence of myself across. At 10:55, I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  from the calendar. Fall still feels like the start of the school year, full of promise and mystery and challenges that I'm not prepared for but ... January, of course, is IAP. "Independent Activities Period" is a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  . If you look at the bottom of the page, where you once saw this: you ... like this: at the bottom of every page? One thing we would do is not ... then, So starting today, you'll see a "Share on Facebook" link at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  't take CI-designation into account at all. Then I realized that some of my ... ...eat a Beaver. Speaking of beavers killing trees...let's talk about how many pages of paperwork the MIT Athletics Department (DAPER) is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  hall", not "the dining hall", because if you have a plan at one of these ... the way back to eat; just grab your meal at Baker! Some of the FSILGs ... background. Some of the Cultural Houses in New House have a sort of middle

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  Learning at MIT is not about memorizing formulas, but understanding ... uncommon for exams at MIT to be open book; we don't want to test rote ... getting in the way of their schoolwork.
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  released, which defeats at least half the purpose of the whole form. And ... MIT Midyear Report is an online form that is required of all students ... fill it out? As soon as possible after completion of the fall semester

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013