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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  of this design: the doors underneath originally wouldn't open due to ... -shirt weather spurts in February and March, it seems like this streak of sunshine and relative warmth is here to stay. In this final quarter of my time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel ... office to catch up on non-reading work and meetings and I spied a bunch of class offerings that are really interesting: Heavy Metal 101 is turning

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2014!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... graduate of MIT who majored in Biology and Brain & Cognitive Sciences. Mollie

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  -or-break moment- the last chance you have to make use of your CPT before you ... return offer after you graduate, and hopefully sponsor your H1B visa. All ... .031 as much as I do, even though it’s slowly draining the life out of me

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  graduate students of the School of Management, undergraduates are offered the ... words of wisdom for survival at MIT. MIT offers many workshops, programs ... schools students to teach motivated high school students the real meaning of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  other highly selective schools. Each university's yield (the percentage of students who accept their offer of admission) is predicted to decrease ... . Congrats to all of you who got your applications in on time. :-) And being a

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  as well): Dropout Design then expanded. Hired a couple of new ... 's a hall) of East Campus called the Disco Dance Floor. Matt blogged ... that has some sort of entertainment value will get its 15 minutes of fame

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  walked. Twenty minutes to the left of the station in the eighty-degree ... Japanese suburbs. Combine all that with my winning sense of direction and you've got a very lost American kid somewhere west of Central Tokyo. It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  undergrad experience. A lot of you probably have class rings from high school ... year and high school's symbol on one side, and a custom design on the ... of the sophomore year designing the ring, which is unveiled at an event

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  magnet high school in NYC. This is a planet of it's own. It's called TLM ... one of them had, by the end of high school, built a rocket out of their ... Back when I was about seven I dreamed of being an astronaut. Of

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  the forms and structures of argumentation, including organization of ideas, awareness of audience, methods of persuasion, evidence, factual vs. emotional argument, figures of speech, and historical forms and uses of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  More than anything, I'd say that MIT offers a merciless crash course in time management.  You've got tons of things to do, as well as even ... time for anything. Fortunately, there's two periods in which most of your

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  ; high school –> college"]pretty much linear direction of my life ... reading, creative writing, and mentoring with a bunch of high school ... really happened to me before. Preschool through college, it was kind of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  12 years of public school education could do for me. I started applying to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I ... where there was a lot to do outside of just being at school. Sample

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  an email sent out to Course 6 Class of 2019. My friend had also sent it out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending ... the entirety of Junior year, but the program was canceled just last year

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  need for the beginning of the school year. Oh - one more thing that you ... What does August mean to you? For me it used to mean that school was starting, summer was over - all kinds of depressing things like that. This

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is study help available?

  MIT offers a variety of academic resources to provide support for any student facing a particularly tough academic challenge, from tutoring and study groups to time management tips and testing strategies. Here's a
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  preface: this blog is comprised of various snippets I wrote in May ... myself blink out and in of existence as I crossed the threshold of the office each morning and evening. The meat of each day was some combination

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• 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 / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  unable to offer admission, please remember that, as one of our bloggers ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2016 are now ... number of aspiring students has exceeded 18,000. As a result, our admit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012