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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  , which for most, mandates us to take eight humanities classes before we ... to them. The teacher would lecture on a particular theme or event – for ... wanted to take at least one history class every semester for the rest of my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  every year. Unfortunately, we’re very limited to how many students we can ... institute, or community college may apply for transfer admission. If you are in your first year of college, the earliest you can apply to transfer
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  opposed to a performance group that students can join for credit (such as ... foraging for free food events during the early evening, but I decided to ... tiles, and I laid in bed and watched for a while. Some mornings also

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  eventually make me both happy AND less sick because I’ll be able to pay for ... beautiful curtain backdrop) speak for themselves. Thanks to my sister Katie ... ’s my open letter to y’all:   Dearest friends, Thank you for the

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  college admissions, I often get asked about how hard it is for me to read ... ; I know that I’m certainly not the first person to write about this ... points for the way you tell us – we just want to know your context to

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  chance that I'll go to grad school, but it certainly won't be for physics ... for Intelligence, which focuses on applying machine learning to various ... ="Math"]course 18[/annotation] classes for now, and then narrow my focus to their

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  must be to run an Instagram page, or how quirky I am for learning about ... in. To simply do things out of a love for it and nothing else. I hope ... sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  ."]dreams.[/annotation] # For about a month I managed to write on the weekends, but classes expand ... now, I could be the person who says, “I used to write novels.” Hard at ... . I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... feel like a different person. not to be a nerd but in my research there ... with picking the best possible version of myself to become - deciding on

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  In the near future, MIT Admissions will release the EA decisions. To kickoff the season, I thought I'd share a little bit about my acceptance to ... th, 2020 Last year, on Saturday, December 19, 2:14 PM CST, I drove to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  great for me to care. Nonetheless, I did apply to some schools as a ... to look at ways to use STEM for a more traditionally government ... person with a job--which is normal, just not necessarily at MIT. I need to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  East Campus courtyard and I am left to decide what happened to my weekend. Most everyone resolved to get some work done on these couple of days, but who actually works on weekends, anyway? :-) [well, maybe one person

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  arriving on campus, upperclassmen are returning to campus, admissions officers are preparing for the admissions cycle (sort of like preparing for hibernation, but for being buried in applications instead of snow). So here is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  to a restaurant for dinner instead of eating at the dining hall, you ... for food to cook.  If you've got more time you probably should cook on ... Ramsay for that tip. beating your eggs too early tends to make them a bit

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  comprehension and academic writing and research. For the final paper, I chose to ... environment for women that is conducive to academia. Considering the profoundly ... -correcting the problem? The answer, according to statistics, is “no.” Consider, for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  I may be tempted to position myself in the lounge for a while, to talk ... for years to take some of the classes. So I have to keep moving and ... . I wanted to stay on campus for the summer. It seemed odd to leave the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  “Kendall Cube,” a popular area for MIT students to find summer internships ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is globally renowned for its contributions to the fields of science and technology. But do you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  . At least for one person, MIT is significantly cooler.   A Trip ... supposed to be practice for adult life: dress nice, be on time, sound smart ... (sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year) How I Learned to Stop

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  parent’s wishes. I asked for purple walls when we first moved to the ... child, but at some point I could tape something to my wall or ask for a ... parts white for murals and to save on paint costs. In my free MIT

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  originally drawn for the awesome Aquil Fannis.  But I decided to take a break ... . I have one book to my left—Stephen King’s Four Past Midnight—which I was finally able to read over the past week, and propped on my legs is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015