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• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  , one or two of these extras can help you in providing us with greater ... I've been getting a lot of questions about supplemental material. None of the below is required or even expected. In general, you should

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  I enjoy them all,  I learned a metric ton of material in a ... When it comes to MIT you can put everything you do into one of two categories "for classes" or "in the spirit of having fun". While the two aren

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  Conner in the Class of 2024 Discord. Most of the questions I got about BC ... In the past few weeks, I've been pretty busy with [annotation note ... . I'm a big fan of the "testimonials" section and even wrote my own, but

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  caught up in camp-life. I braced myself for all of the academic challenges ... perfect utopia. I think a lot of people here can relate to this sentiment ... years” with a newfound sense of panic and gloom. I'm in a different world

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  one can be a graceful Rheinmaiden while suspended 30 feet in the air I ... utterly awesome - perhaps my favorite opera of all time. I tend to listen to ... "villain" of the Ring Cycle, Alberich (the head dwarf), currently engaged in

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  students did for fun, also in the late 1800s. For some of you, this post ... ’s history helps with your consideration of committing to MIT in the present ... of its peer institutions in accepting women, who also got to work in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  quadrupled in the space of no time, and I felt that I really needed a lot more ... them swam to the forefront of my mind, but I knew that the contrast in ... , challenges I found myself learning to deal with as time fled. I was part of the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  Guys, in spite of everything that's happened, I'm having a college ... also work out together!! One of the guys I'm living with is in ROTC and ... workin vibes[/caption] Words can't express how much I enjoy living in this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it was bright but unforgiving. i’ve been wearing a lot of red, sort of ... novembers that make you remember, something in the sudden, bitter cold. i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November ... team bonding events because I would stay in my partner's room most of the ... ready to graduate. in the case of my relationship, I had no dating

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  comprehensive list of which you can find here. Almost every course at MIT has ... Course 6, I can firmly attest to the fact that our lounge sucks, and as a ... Google Form and asking Abby to dormspam it because I was too scared of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  LTI was probably when I caught a real egg with a pair of tongs. I can ... myself from having to be covered in egg yolks for the rest of the day. I ... take the studies I'm interested in to different types of levels. I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  the tip of my tongue, and i can see it in the smiles that come more ... of your body love what it loves. i emailed him a few weeks ago in a ... today it is warmer than it has been in a while, and i'm back in the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  last year/beginning of this year, I feel really included in what is going ... It’s a new school year, and I’ve started UROPing in a new lab! For ... year I'm starting in a new lab. The group is in MIT CSAIL (the Computer

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  advantage nor disadvantage for having been deferred in EA. I can't give you a ... deferred in EA. Can I call or email to find out why I was deferred? No. We ... (RA). Many of you may still have questions so I'm posting a quick entry

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  RNA that can shut off 10 genes at once in the livers of mice, and they ... involves all sorts of stuff I’m interested in - wet lab, molecular biology ... There are many legendary stories of perseverance in history.  Custer

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  In my first blog post ever, I wrote about my first three weeks at MIT ... feeling of being overwhelmed by not only how much I've changed, but also how ... returning to East Campus time and time again, and since I was temped here in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  'undeclared' at some point in the middle of the semester (which just means I ... me. The cry of the small child in his arms yanks me unpleasantly back ... miles ever before, and so I've pretty much experienced the pinnacle of bad

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  . Once in 66, you can turn to view an interesting room full of old ... ... and arrive at one of my favorites -- I mean, just look at the pattern on ... the ceiling in this neglected room, but it looked interesting, so I took

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  I just wanted to quickly share something that brought me a lot of ... DTYD in the Minecraft version of Porter Room, the room where it usually takes place. A lot of us have building permissions in the MIT Minecraft

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020