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• FAQ / First-year application

  How does my school submit recommendation letters and transcripts?

  competitive applicants will provide one from a math/science teacher, and one ... profile, and a letter of recommendation). MIT's recommendations process is ... section of your application. We will also accept letters and materials
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  .org/topics/life/student_life_culture/valentines_day_special_1.shtml) and continued to run into her with increasing frequency until ... recall we journeyed to New York City at the end of July and survived a ... road to cozy summer skylines, breezy sunsets, and barely

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)

  

  Yesterday's tie was red, and my subcommittee was McGregor (also MIT '00) and a current student (from the Middle East). Aside from some ... Yahoo Yellow Pages). Today, Marilee gave us a day off to rest and catch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  super sick and ended up having to undergo surgery a week after that blog ... no idea what caused it (and still have no idea), but I assumed it would disappear within a day and made my way to class. Unfortunately, the pain did

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  a writing class and wanted to share his experiences and insights with ... , and not every path leads to your goal. At times the road will bend and twist and break, doing everything to throw you off its course. A storm

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  stories for Rune, MIT's student-written and published literary magazine ... in order to create something fun and new. For example, painting skills and knowledge of electronics came together several years ago to create a

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  . Although I have been watching a great deal of Law and Order this summer (it ... , I took the GRE in July, and the majority of my free time prior to the ... wrote my CV the other night, and I promise I'm going to sit down tomorrow

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  , and write about, a sociotechnical artifact — whether this is a bot, a ... campus"]dormspammed[/annotation] a survey asking people their favorite and ... 's location and gender, and also asked submitters to rate the following

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  Pre-entry warning: I took the GRE this morning, and since I ... test, and all the math is high school math (actually, that's sort of bad ... ... the good part is that it's like riding a bike and you can pick it up

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  , thinking that it sounds fantastic and you'd love it and you can't wait to try ... classes you'll never need and don't even like instead of spending your time doing things you love? No you don't. Admission officers and bloggers have

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  about to get incredibly busy again (and after three months of relative relaxation and down activity, I'm not entirely sure I’m ready for that). And two, summer is officially over. And with that, it is time to bid the 8

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  , your berth of problem sets, your number and difficulty of major. Your "hard coreness," so to 5p3a|<. We've seen it time and time again. Two ... other responds: "Oh, man, I'm so hosed. I just pulled two all-nighters and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  turn to this hobby time and time again when I picked it up at the ... available: sports, board games, reading, and then there it was knitting. I was not much of an athlete and rather enjoyed the idea of being sedentary

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Recap: wearables, games, and other SUPER products

  

  team: tachi, a board game platform for the visually impaired and sighted ... provides real-time feedback via mesh networking for search and rescue teams ... and vibrates antiresonantly to neutralize them (brochure) Orange team

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  formula for the surface area of a sphere (4 pi r squared) was not exact, and ... said that if anybody could come up with an exact formula and prove it ... 'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A New Year and a New ‘Do bryan.mitblogs.com gets a little makeover.

  

  So most people start off the new year with a new hairstyle, but since I don’t have that much hair to play around with, the next best thing is to…

  • by Bryan
  • January 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  got to high school, I, like many of you, realized I loved math and ... on math and science because it was one of those all-girls schools. Yes ... contagious, and thinking of myself as a scientist became second nature. So

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And I am telling you I’m going And you, and you, and you, you're gonna love me.

  

  at MIT. Sam's Mom and I are headed back for Boston tomorrow morning ... MIT guest in Harrisburg, an 800-pound butter sculpture, and, of course

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Note To Prefrosh With Time Machines and/or Good Ideas Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this saturday at 10PM EST.

  

  interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered. Pretty cool. And the winners of the ... reducing the radiation exposure of both patients and doctors the "Vac ... are being transported to clinics in remote locations  ...and a

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.

  

  about a week, and the process of selecting the Class of 2009 (including ... respect and care with which we will treat your application during selection ... and black.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2005