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• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  that non-traditional applicants take some college courses at a community college or in a non-degree program prior to applying to brush up on their ... while we consider them all in their context, we need to know some common
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  the design is also a work in progress. I'll be working on the other ... So. I decided that I needed a new banner. Alright, so that's a lie. Ben decided for me that I needed a new banner. See, when Ben sets up the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  myself when I wake up in the morning because I can hardly believe that I ... Reformed Church (though I was technically born in Detroit, the not ... were a Crayola crayon, I would totally be Dandelion- it’s clearly the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a rose is a rose is a rose ...is a rose

  

  So I haven’t blogged for a while - again... I’m not going to lie - it’s actually because I’ve been doing architecture stuff and that’s ... semester has reminded me again and again that a rose is a rose is a rose

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  bars! I love going to clubs! And I've been doing a LOT of that this ... there's also a lot of incredibly fun and freeing things that I've been doing this semester that I figured I should talk about. Parties I turned

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  , i knew in my heart that it had been walked a million times before. now ... in april, i was sure that in september, i'd be on MIT's campus again ... , during such a chaotic time? (little did i know that this would be the first

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  a ton of MIT internal email lists that I am on. I proceeded to get ... that I had no confidence in myself, I was just thinking realistically ... waitlisted was almost more painful than a flat out rejection. I knew then that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What kind of things can I do during IAP?

  If you think MIT is all work and no play, let us take you for a spin ... spring and fall semesters, the Independent Activities Period is a special ... to organize, sponsor and participate in a wide variety of personal and
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  Today, I'm back in the office (but only for a day) after doing three ... hour event. Each college fair I do seems to have one question that gets ... , "Do you have a core curriculum?" The answer is, yes, there are some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  course Professor is also a really big deal in the field and he still hangs ... —who knows if I’ll also have to critique a speaker's paper in front of them ... because she was a fan of the professor’s work (tbh, I’ve done that too for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  . The takeaway message here is that I finished the mango, checked my email, and discovered at 9:18 AM that I had a press ticket to a Polaroid press ... that. In my left pocket was a wallet with $15, a grocery discount card, a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  fight, my bets would be on Maria. The moral of the story is that I had a ... , UROP is a research program at MIT that actually has nothing to do with ... letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  . Keeping in mind that I'm doing entirely molecular/cellular neuroscience, my ... elementary/middle school, I would take a book, sit in an unoccupied section ... OCW site, and how much fun it is to do MIT psets. Hey, I've got some

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  probably a lot more stuff that Brain is repressing In summary, this time of ... My November is a looming list of tasks that must be accomplished. The ... the bright side, I have been doing a lot of sleep... maybe even too much

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  again a zonotope; in this case, it’s a [annotation note="I learned that ... What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the ... boundary of your shape, at the end of this process, is called a zonotope. In

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a year since I applied to ... ;_< >_>), but this time I was doing great! I finished up a few drafts ... is coming up! I completely forgot! And oh wow! The deadline is only a

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for ... to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in ... playing in the background had turned into five simple letters and a two

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  real thing I can compare this to is ESP, and in that sense it's actually ... . There are two puzzles in the hunt that I could truly claim a decent amount ... mechanism is the hard part, and the part I struggled a lot in coming up with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  that MIT, while strong in math and sciences, is a well-rounded school ... that’s because his success is relatively new. “I was always an A or B ... education in high school, and that is when I really got into it and liked

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  picking apples. I love apple picking. After that we headed to a local golf ... in Michigan. I'll write more soon with a recap of my meeting in Ann ... I am born! (Or rather, my blog is born.) This is (virtually) my first

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008