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• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT offer Army, Air Force, Navy ROTC?

  commissioned from MIT, of whom more than 150 have reached the rank of general or ... 'll have earned not only your degree, but a commission as an officer and ... group and two hours a week of a hands-on, cadet or midshipman
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  until I was eighteen. Then I moved around a lot, from southern Arizona to ... findings from Craigslist and Marketplace. It was a quick walk from Central ... florist from whom I bought a [annotation note="I took the rose to lab. The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  if she'd been accepted. She had! Two people from a random public high ... drive from my house. In fifth grade my parents and I were driving to my grandma's house when my parents asked a completely unreasonable question for

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  , me and two friends from my sorority had a rather strange conversation ... somehow that’s still a surprise. Break was really nice, but from where you ... I’ve been thinking a lot about how I would want to structure this

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  applications SORRY JADE."]I didn’t hear back from Petey for a while ... Today I'm hosting a guest post by Jade Durham '25, who — alongside Cami '23 and Shayna '23 —  spent the last few years working on a UROP

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  , having done similar things since freshman spring, ranging from a slightly ... When I started senior fall, I was taking a course load of 6 [annotation note='I am writing this down in class-equivalents; MIT has a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  Square a lot more than usual this past semester. Despite not dual-enrolling in a class, I did have the chance to take a class (D-Lab: Development!) with several Harvard University students this fall semester, learning a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  grade, but I learned a few things from 8.02 and kept my guard up ... If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point ... 'd see a B next to 8.02 (Electricity and Magnetism), and a B next to 5

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  not having a meal plan but having a schedule that doesn't allow for time to cook breakfast or lunch each day unless i bring a sack breakfast and ... .[/annotation]I'm not really a ~meal prep king~ like certain other bloggers, but I go

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  (although it just generally varies greatly from project to project), this is a ... - Train a model (genetic algorithm) using the results from part 2  to ... , I sent in a bunch of UROP applications on [annotation note

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  “So, Andi, let’s talk about your accomplishments from this semester. Was your research output impactful enough to lead to a start-up?” I just sat there and shook my head in silence. “No? What about a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  concern during the renewal process. Being a member of this team was ... Conner is seeing a few changes that have implications for its ability to ... annoying because it hinders college students from, uh, being college students

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  ’m not about to drink Kool-aid from the firehose that tells me a failure to ... the body of the announcement. Here’s a screencap of the message: There is a good chance you’ve heard about this already, since a lot of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  age, and is flying away from our own galaxy as a whole at X kilometers ... Corporation. Turns out, from a legal perspective, "MIT" refers not to ... corporation. Everything builds down from the Corporation, so getting to have a

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  like a turtle in three pairs of sweatpants and two sweatshirts and a lot ... say that trying to will my body back to homeostasis topped off with a 11-page story, two midterms and starting a new UROP hasn't left a whole lot

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  speaker. He was a history major and is from Ohio (shout out). Here are some ... !" that's a lol from me. _____ "Brown's band is the only band that ice ... financial backgrounds. You'll meet a lot of people from a lot of different

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  'm always thinking, "and then what?" How do we get from a point where you ... 've written for the blogs, for instance, goes through a first read, usually from ... was serving a purpose—imparting the wisdom which I've sopped up from

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  A? Thank you so much for your help, and I hope to hear from you soon ... I'm going to start this out with a quick disclaimer: no, a double ... student/person/wizard/etc. for only pursuing a single major. Do what makes

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  looking back at you from a yellowed photograph. I have fine lines around my ... (a/n: My birthday was a few weeks ago! So this blog is just slightly ... twenty in four days.  I always cry on my birthday. I think this is a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  anything aside from great, great books. I also read a couple boring books ... resolutions I accomplished in this list, as well. 2021 Resolutions Go to a ... free tickets from MIT Course 6 department to go to the Grace Hopper

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022