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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  resident woke up to find a personalized sticky note on his or her door. I ... . On Thursday, I was about to scan and e-mail in an application form for ... I was applying for the program. More specifically: "I'm delighted to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  feel guilty for not responding to his question. As I mentioned just a ... the way home from my field hockey game, and when I awoke, what to my ... , layered with ice, piled in drifts...I'm no stranger to snow. But snow before

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 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 / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  to decide which dorm I wanted to live in for my first year at MIT. I ... ) has two GRTs who have open door policies for students to come to them if ... floor to take a break from their work to hangout and socialize for a bit

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• 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
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  year. Successful transfer students come to MIT from many backgrounds ... non-traditional pathways.  Unfortunately, we are very limited to how many students we can accept. Students who at the time of entry to MIT
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  to be too childish for my tastes, as the show is riddled with moments ... judgments, and how the show seemed to tut at me for it, showing me that ... season 6, due to just life happening. School was starting up back in person

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  to exercise. Hooray! Hooray for bicycles! I'm also very risk averse ... stay almost entirely off the main road for safety, and I get to bike to ... good crosswalks, the safest way for me to do this is by going into the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• FAQ / Transfer

  What does MIT consider for transfer admission?

  There’s no formula for gaining transfer admission to MIT. The ... the opportunities available to them at their current or most recent ... would bring something unique and special to our community.
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  ’ve been thrown into a pit of tigers to fend for myself with a toothpick ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary ... month prior to the test if you really want to prepare well for a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  . :) Like in high school, I was happy to receive course credit for something I ... friends as much as from my classes, have been things I wouldn’t expect to be ... —and the tools to make our own new beautiful things. This blog post is about

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  for the trust and confidence MIT puts in our abilities to affect change ... MIT students tried to better their Spanish, interned at local companies, and wondered why they chose to go to the Southern Hemisphere during

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  So I just happened to come across two articles this week related to MIT, both involving RFID technology (for those who aren't that tech ... from the San Jose Mercury News - "'Printed Chips' Could be Boon for

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  to ask for guidance when I needed. As it turns out, extra force was ... excited to come back to it! The earrings were for a St Patrick’s Day party ... things when I wanted to, which is vital for jewelry-making. My favorites

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... how obvious inattention is to the person at the front of the room. (To ... PhD. There’s a coda to that story. Over a decade ago (!), when I was an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for ... that made them strong candidates for admission. Well, you don't have to ... student groups are open to anybody who wants to join. The only person with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is the Sloan School of Management for undergrads, too?

  prepares you for your next step, equipping you with the tools you need to ... MIT Sloan School of Management will challenge undergraduates to ... , and sustainability, you will leave MIT Sloan ready to take your career
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  , would my friends and I have woken up at 4:00 am to drive for 4 hours to ... that state for 30s in totality, when then I’d snap back to take a photo ... Objects move/change too slow for humans to dynamically notice. That is not

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And term starts again…

  

  classes this term. The descriptions are yoinked from the online course ... programming, game theory. My comments: The description sounded fun. I want to ... strengths and limitations of fMRI compared to other techniques, and the design

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  resolution links (for the most part) as those are pretty unpleasant to look at ... University for 7 years before going up to Boston for college but this was my ... mom to the biology labs for too long. I think this was Trumbull

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008