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• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  , headed out for our annual camping trip in seven rental cars, with trunks ... dorm room, open my eyes for real, and take in the world. There's a lot ... It's pretty common at MIT for living groups to take advantage of the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Crew Florida Takeover My last trip to play with the dolphins

  

  hours of practice with a 5 mile run thrown in, and an hour and a half of ... For now, we are back in the boathouse at MIT, erging, lifting and ... So usually in the beginning of January, Boston is under a solid layer

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  yourself to new ideas. For me, personally, in the summer leading up to the ... my home for college. Additionally, having lived in Miami when I was younger and learning the basics of living in an urban environment, I had a

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  the mountains for a much-needed vacation, where I will sit in backyards ... hive in an unusual location https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9m6MoS43k4 ... Valley save file with my partner and am trying to squeeze in some night

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ Some Q & A regarding testing for MIT admission.

  

  , or TOEFL, in addition to the required SAT Subject Tests. Q. I am an ... There are always many questions about our testing requirements. For those of you applying this year and for whom English is your primary

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  struck All in all, the race was an incredible experience for everyone on ... we met more team members who flew in for the competition. After a few ... laps in one day or 143 laps in two consecutive days to qualify for the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  ), and then Thursday and Friday, I met up with an MIT alum in Texas who works as a director for a rather large freight railroad in the West. It ... point requirement." An abbreviated version of this quote appeared in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  point. Dorms. For my FPOP and most of REX, I was living in East Campus ... ordinary tire swing). Anyways, CPW came to an end, and when the time came for ... , and somehow, I got in, and I couldn't be happier here. It's such an

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  every kid around the world,”  said Binzel, according to an article in CBS ... Pluto. In measuring how much the light dims during an eclipse, Leslie ... sciences, working for New Horizons. She graduated undergrad in '13 with a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  traditional ingredient used in your recipe for a healthier choice (you will have ... in each category. There were also prizes for the entries that won Best ... victorious for the past several years, had the most entries in the competition

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  who applied for EA got a chance to contact your EC and have an interview ... to talk about what goes into an interview report. What we won't see in ... same things but do it in a detailed way that there just isn't room for in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  staff, I want to say thank you for your interest in MIT, and for sharing ... your applications brought back some memories for me. When I was in high ... of them are going on to college. Add to that an increase in the number

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  If I had a nickel for every time my final project for an MIT class ... instructions stored in memory like with a CPU, you’d program an FPGA [annotation ... around for a while, I discovered it was actually a bug in Manta itself

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  ). Let us know when you've decided, and for sure let us know by May 3. An ... ? How can you make the best decision? If you've made up your mind for ... 're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  typical day is like for an MIT student. Although that's a very good question ... you have to do in a week, and you sort of want to die inside. :) For ... session for MURJ, the research journal I'm co-editor-in-chief of GM

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  anyone in my life for granted. Similarly, my brain is swimming in all the ... for in Catalan. My host family, with the two mandarins oranges they pack ... ; otherwise, we’d be in for quite a bit of down time. But, not ten minutes upon

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  .  For ten minutes, in ten second intervals.  It was actually quite fun ... . (I'm sure there's a metaphor in there somewhere about being an MIT ... Some people can draw. My friend Alison, for example, drew this

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  on Pi Day 2019. I cried my eyes out for a week, and was stuck with an ... @Allison!, in the not admitted thread: Two years ago today, I, too, became an ... Every year, for as long as the blogs have been around, we post open

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  did get myself involved in things (hooray!). Today I went shopping for a ... afterward. Then, I’m going to Chocolate City for Ill Vibes, an open mic sort ... told enough how hard it is. I came in hearing “yeah, no one gets an A

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  also appear in my list will be marked with an (M). Here are the classes ... until today, I've procrastinated about selecting a HASS class for next ... interested in the material and can therefore contribute and participate more

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005