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• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  , who was one of MIT's Educational Counselors, or ECs. He had retired to ... MIT just before the onset of World War II, and his MIT, while having the ... 20-20 hindsight of an admissions officer, I suspect that interview

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lewis Music Library Tra la la

  

  Instead of writing only about student life, I'm gonna try to write ... things you'd like to know more about (or see photos of, if you're unable to visit MIT), leave a comment at the end of the entry, k? According to the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join the Design/Build/Fly Team?

  The MIT Design/Build/Fly team is composed mostly of undergraduate ... learn and practice some or all of the following: lightweight composite ... construction; use of CAD/FEA/drawing software such as SolidWorks; machining
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT consider extracurriculars?

  realize that students in the U.S. have a huge array of extracurriculars to ... other countries may not have access to such a diverse range of options ... live or attend school. Don't be concerned about having a lot of extra
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit a February Updates & Notes Form (FUN)?

  as soon as possible after completion of the fall semester or after completion of the second quarter. Your school does not need to mail your ... school; MIT has all of my grades" option. The FUN Form includes an
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  [HEY! NOTE: If you are looking for the real, scientific reason of how ... ’s a full semester’s worth of cool things, none of which are particularly applicable or useful, but there you go.  Albatross Lore For a good portion of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  . Now, allow me to present the sequel to my assortment of culinary ... to shutdowns, and some people lost their sense of smell due to the virus. Gastronomy seemed to be sacrificed in exchange for a sense of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  This is the second part of a two-part series about being an MIT ... with their [annotation note="the emergency grading policy of Pass ... ,[/annotation] in addition to the new stress of an unexpected return to family life

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  Since January, I've been having a sort of crisis about my place at ... me by and, apparently, get into MIT. But it's this very method of ... difficult problem, they don't ask for help after ten minutes of trying or even

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  In an Uber ride during my freshman year, one of my friends turned to ... now” If you had said that statement to any of my classmates from high ... talk to anyone outside of the people I knew from different

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

   (THE gaming convention of the year). you might also know that e3 is in ... a day. i was too broke at the time to even think of purchasing that ... playstation is part of) wasn't attending e3 this year, i probably wouldn't be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  You might have heard of inktober, a recent phenomenon where artists ... , one of my friends from hall, Lisa T. '20, and I decided to do "poemtober ... publish a few of each of our favorites below, and I've noted which prompt

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  really just sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day? Do you work on ... years of my career. Well, this reporter’s got the inside scoop, having ... me a through the molasses stereotype of a 9-to-5 desk job. I’ve blended

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  Emmanuel A. ‘18 is a member of my own class year (as is Pelkins A ‘18 ... the privilege of sharing a class with him, but we would meet at all our different community events and (of course) occasionally when working on psets

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  1. Labels The number of double takes and comments I’ve gotten this month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does ... mean, I bet you live in one of the cleaner parts.” I imagine a big label

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Boy, that's a lot of capitalized words. During the four years I spent at MIT ... volunteered at a bunch of Asian community health clinics. Now, I write MCAT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  the top of the Ridge Cars 3 and 4, led by Jackie S. '14 and Cappie P ... Ridge sunrise hike I was a part of Car 3 with Jackie. We were all ... Hampshire, to camp outside of the MITOC (MIT Outdoors Club) Camelot Cabin.  I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  week ago, one of the admins on the MIT Class of 2017 Facebook page asked ... limited Internet access: (trust me, the lack of reliable wifi was by far the scarier part) But here I am now, answering some of the questions

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  one of my New Year’s Resolutions was to get back to doing one of the ... .   Pistol First of all, I JOINED THE PISTOL TEAM! (Photo Credit ... ’m improving so much!! I can get almost every shot in the black area of a target

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  This is a season of stress. The release of Early Action decisions ... decision applications to college, and, for many of my senior friends ... resolved to spend every waking hour of my weekend either studying for my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011