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• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery Potato martinis at the courthouse

  

  with the first half (2/4 years) of MIT. That is both an exhilirating and ... success, and over 700 members of our 1000-person class attended! Here are ... 's the lobby where people mingled and waited in line for their rings

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  ). All of the groups were fantastic! Next, Matt, Mitra, Kevin and I raided ... cream and root beer. And most of you know what happened next - the bloggers blabbed away for awhile and everyone got to meet each other. Super

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  most of my time attending events and meeting prefrosh. Started with the ... & Erin stopped by and we stalked people using the satellite feature of Google Maps for an hour or so. Met up with Lorelle and headed to the BSU

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

  , and one of the topics dealt with writing. It got me thinking about some of my old college friends who are writers, and two quick web searches ... (and I know you're out there) can buy it here. Dylan is currently hard

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  be shorter (ending ~4pm) and we get breaks when we need them. During one of the breaks today, Stu, Amy, Mari and I headed over to the Student ... post-work relaxation included a nice nap and a viewing of the classic

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the ... asks students to list their "course of interest" only, and the choice ... number or acronym. MIT's majors and minors are listed on our site. And the
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  are from international students all over the globe and we're very ... limited to): the IB, A Levels, the French Baccalaureate, and CBSE. Your ... , region, and country. We don't have any required high school classes for
• Blog / How to MIT

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  and felt, boxes and tiny army soldiers. I'm sitting at my desk which is covered in cardstock and stacks of cards. I am furiously scribbling on a 2 ... ,100 incoming students. It was a blast, and so this year, I applied to be an

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  college spring break is everything I wanted it to be and more, which is unfortunate since I just came back from my second and final one ... single blog post. I won't dive into the history and implications of U

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  A few weekends back, I went to EnergyHack, ran a half-marathon, and ... . ‘24, and her lab mate, Rick W. ‘25, an exchange student from the Netherlands. EnergyHack began Friday night with a few speeches and an unveiling

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  , and of course, Career Fair. These shirts pile up in your wardrobe slowly over the course of 3 years, and you pretty much have no other wardrobe ... carry a lot of good memories with them, and that it might be nice to do

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  A brief happy post amidst the chaos and confusion of existence: Hi ... going on with me and my life. For those of you who don't know, I just ... our households that may not be the best for studying and working. We

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ago and stands for Independent Awesome Period (not really, but it might ... classes at other campuses can cost several hundreds of dollars and take much ... , listening to lectures, and training in the afternoon. (It's also the reason

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

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  on couches, bothering my roommates, and contemplating life in this ... : Gravity Falls is a story about two twins, Dipper and Mabel, who move to Gravity Falls, Oregon for the summer and live with the Gruncle Stan Pines

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  red brick and marble, Corinthian columns, old-style decor. T-shirts that ... -stem classes — there’s an entire department of folklore, for example, and another ... history of tattoos, and Yiddish politics, and ghost stories.  Fortunately

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  it, that you can't understand until they happen to you. And then there ... , and just rereading it now stirs my heart: https://mitadmissions.org ... , and the late-night suitcase-dragging walk through the airport, onto the

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

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  below, Elizabeth '13 and I were modestly involved at the beginning of that project because the How To Food admissions blogs functioned as prior art and ... !  People almost always stereotype college meals as ramen, cereal, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  really came into my own as a MIT student. And I did, I think. I enjoyed the vast majority of my classes, and created some pretty cool things, even though everything was online and the motivation loss was real. In light of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  growing old? can someone tell me how i got here, and there, and to all these ... escalating unpredictable horrible move-out week in March, and how even just ... know how fast you can lose everything you counted on and have your whole

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  hiring frosh. And in the case that the program is freshman and/or sophomore exclusive, the internship tends to be more competitive and difficult to get ... and our teachers would nominate select students to participate. I didn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020