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• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  college dorm. What makes you so proud? Way to be a total killjoy. *eyeroll* Obviously a college dorm room is not ideal to demonstrate interior design skills. What exactly would a future interior decorator's college dorm room

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

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

  

  University for 7 years before going up to Boston for college but this was my ... in some suite in Branford College (a residential college of Yale). The ... majors from NYU, Sarah Lawrence, Yale, Connecticut College at my table. A

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  I live in Massachusetts. I am a freshman. I am in college. I go to MIT. Even though I have been repeating these phrases over and over in my head for the past 2 weeks that I have been on campus, I still can

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  interested in pursuing physics beyond my undergraduate degree. There's a good ... paths I see for myself. Course 8 also offers a flexible major, called 8

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  .E.M.E. degree. i have enough sayings that you can make a soundboard of me and no ... levers. If you don’t want the hassle of owning a bike, MIT offers

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  degree. Please do stop by and see your advisor on registration day." and I ... more about them, and he offered to hold an entire extra session for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  about fluid mechanics. Sorry, it's the time of the season for offers, and ... Teck was a 98-pound Singaporean who graduated MIT with a master's degree

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  classes you take can be applied toward the degree requirements for both ... semester (when you have a better idea of what classes are offered when

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  third-degree burns. He'll be ok, Mobile, AL has the country's third best ... game Friday night. Better yet, Waites (UGA) '08 offered to pick me up at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  to offer free food. As a frugal freshman, you can use this to your ... school here. And picking up a Boston Symphony Orchestra college card (which ... should actually get a college card instead of settling for video streams

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  are you from? Mass College of Art?" "Nope." "Boston College?" "Nope ... school only offered APUSH, so I went ahead and did AP Euro and AP World on ... idea of majoring in history in college (but called it off because the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  of college. I found that the more I was up and about, forcing myself to ... life at college. And my advice for you is precisely that. To echo Paul ... 's rigorous courseload - to allow you to explore what MIT has to offer while not

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  Class of 2010: I hope you’re all excited about your new temporary housing assignment! I *believe* every room comes with the following items, though it may vary slightly depending on…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  voices, and college admission letters. The difference was that they were

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  I came to MIT with an ambitious goal: to sit everywhere on campus. Oh yeah, and to get an MIT degree. After four years, I've completed neither ... -senior" status) to finish up a degree. I'm excited to be taking advantage of this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  degree temps they regularly weather. But the baby penguins were cute little ... spot for primates), and lingered in the butterfly garden's 100-degree

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  An Exchange Student enrolls at MIT to take classes as a non-degree student. Exchange students are affiliated with a university in which MIT has ... Students are non-degree students who take classes at MIT. You will apply
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  degrees and sunny. That basically sums up my prior experience with ... degrees Fahrenheit. Not too bad, but warmer and more humid that I’d prefer ... dropped 30 degrees. T--h--i--r--t--y d--e--g--r--e--e--s. Up until this

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time ... us to know what is GMO and what is not. He added that many college ... offered, which is much more likely to be untampered with. The best news is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  's How I Take Care of Myself at one of the most stressful colleges in the ... essentially everything in that whole "I just need this fucking degree but dear ... support those going through troubling times. During my time at college, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019