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• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  a set of skill points that can go into whatever skill we want. For me ... know MIT is the right place for me. Inside everyone here, there's a ... physics are challenging for me. I would rather write an essay than take a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application now available Apply now at MyMIT.

  

  for freshman admission to MIT. Your MyMIT page includes interview ... MIT site, you will find the contact information for your MIT interviewer, or Educational Counselor (EC), within a couple days of registering. You should

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Application is now available! You can now access the MIT freshman application at MyMIT.

  

  You can now log onto MyMIT to access the application for freshman ... contact information for your MIT interviewer, or Educational Counselor (EC), within a couple days of registering. You should contact your EC as soon as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  that we receive so I'll have a job for the summer. I wish I could show ... 't feel that way are probably in for a somewhat rude awakening come next ... upperclassmen. If I had a dollar for every time I've explained every nuance of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  , and Gloria also mentor for Metropolis! It's a pretty good gig. We ... Established Welding Mentor, so I shadowed her for a few sessions before running ... repeating the welding training spiel two or even three times a week for a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  classes. Relax, I promise this won't be a factor for you. Sephy writes, "I was a student of Raffles for 4.25 years before I shifted to India and ... , 2005 tests will be accepted on a case by case basis, so I registered for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Wanting to Do Everything And Deciding What Parts of Everything I Can Do

  

  If I had a penny for every time I heard someone say, “this year went ... as grateful as I am for being where I’m at today, realizing how fast a ... with friends for food off campus, and another, I’ll be trying to rush a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 31, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  loftblogging 3: liberation via customization i <3 process

  

  ] friend Hanu for help. At first, I had an ambitious plan to build a king ... My dorm East Campus (EC) has a long tradition of radical room ... EC fort site during build[/caption] Except, I'm not really a builder

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  . Today, I am eighteen years old. I've been at MIT for a month. I don't know ... they are worth fighting for. The Answer Depends. This is a bit of a ... A few years back, I began keeping a tab of life's certainties

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  ="'didn't receive a sufficient score to qualify for credit for 18.01'"]failed ... WESTERN MUSIC. IT IS SUPER COOL."]i was sad and hass-less for a couple of days.[/annotation] i am a f r a i d to cook for myself and realize that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  summer on jimjilbangs, and for visual reference, here's a photo from that ... affluent or grown-ups working in the real world, but for a student like me ... myself thinking... Dear jimjilbang, I respect you for being a time

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  but this to say: you have to try a burrito from Anna's. If you're up for it, it's a delicious experience for the mind, the mouth, and the wallet ... little shindig; I'm talking about a different 150th! That's right; this

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  ." Orientation lasts around a week, during which you go to events to (for lack of a ... ourselves into a wing, they took us out for dinner, from pizza to Greek food. It's been a good week for my stomach. Frat rush also started today

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  started blogging for Admissions, I wrote a number of what were basically essays on subjects that I had been thinking about for a long time, and had ... students' lives are lived "underground". So I search for a middle ground

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  that "colleges are looking for." Absurd. And supposedly the girl is a ... Sorry for the blog vacation guys. We're scrambling to get ahead in ... too excited, the whole process takes about a month, so we're still right

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  The third in a series... With fewer than 10 days to go until the May 1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  "Where there is a will....there is a way" for a reason. All the wonderful ... new Bioengineering major, for example, was considering holding a lottery ... , biology, a lottery is held every term for 7.02. There's just not enough

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  much progress I can make if I consistently go to the gym for a year! I ... Hey! That's this. Yes, I love blogging and I think it's a great way for ... getting a domain. It'll basically just be a hub for all the stupid things I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  substantial entries to come this week): First, I saw a link on a military blog (Naval Open Source Intelligence) to a relevant MIT OpenCourseWare course, 21A.217: Anthropology of War and Peace, taught by Prof. Hugh Gusterson

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  hang out. Here is a full outline of all of my plans for IAP. Physics ... getting a passion for a different project. You drop this one and start work ... 8.01. 6.009 is a prerequisite for many course 6 classes. And, ya know

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018