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• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  on the front page of The Tech. It was kind of cathartic; I was a chunky kid in high school and standing at the finish line of the Boston ... training into it. In the past five years I've done a lot of thinking, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  's status as one of the oldest colonies, definitely more than could fit in a single blog post. I won't dive into the history and implications of U ... for MIT students that I'm aware of are Puerto Rico, Aruba, Mexico, the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer conditional admissions?

  MIT doesn't offer any special or conditional admissions. All first-year applicants fill out the same undergraduate application and meet the same testing requirements.
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  solutions...The Institute has much to offer in terms of the kind of education ... science degree from the Florida Institute of Technology, taught high school ... ’s decision in the SFFA case had on the composition of the Class of 2028, why it

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  a 45 degree angle to the left side of the paper, so it's basically ... I spent the majority of my time re-reading and re-examining my ... basically the master of churning out pointless fluff "insightful" essays for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  my early departure from the west coast while my closest high school ... the wheel after six months of no driving and navigate the roads by a map ... safe in the world, I've never been that afraid of uprooting my life and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  So, I'm from Columbus, Ohio, home of Jungle Jack Hanna and the ... !) and pick the movie -- March of the Penguins. It was awesome, although I think it would suck to be a penguin... I'm not so much a fan of the -80

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  only completed about 5 of the applications by mid-December (under the ... onto his website to watch his mailbox for the arrival of a big, beautiful ... there was a giant blizzard in Cambridge, MA, which delayed the shipping of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  while MIT fit the criteria of being a) on a coast and [annotation note ... body of water[/annotation], the only things I knew about Boston before ... and actually go explore the city I live in. One of my first ~outings

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  . I sat on the edge of my bed for a while, admiring the midday sunshine ... ?” was one of the prompts I responded to. I wrote about finishing my internship work early and spending the rest of my day wandering around Boston

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  with the arrival of the eastern seaboard’s very own polar vortex, so the ... degrees Fahrenheit. For perspective, I saw a chart on the internet that ... frostbite. Thankfully, we were indoors for most of the trek across campus

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  your understanding of the resources available to you as a new member of the MIT community. No really, why? Because of the free stuff, obviously. Here’s a brief inventory of some of the notable mementos I’ve acquired so

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  Here are the answers to the questions you've left in the comments of ... know of any other really good vegetarian/vegan restaurants in the area ... restaurants around offer good vegetarian options. For example, on my list of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What type of first-year learning communities are available?

  -year learning communities offer a distinct kind of learning environment that provides students with the opportunity to study and socialize as part of a smaller community while still taking advantage of the intellectual and
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  the spring. Two of the three freshman chem classes are only offered ... those of you who just skipped the beginnings of a rant above, here's a ... -PART LIST OF EXCEPTIONS TO THE RIDICULOUSLY SIMPLIFIED SCHEDULE ABOVE (Numbers

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  accepted the offer. I did have another micro-internship offer, but I ... about her in-person experience here) but due to. . . the state of the ... decent work set-up. The first week of January was full of onboarding tasks

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  from the beautiful roof deck of McCormick Hall; it's worth watching just ... working on a Masters in Fine Arts degree full time for the next year; Zig ... Episode 7 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is out now. Stories include

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  For the the first time ever, we spent a prolonged period of time ... about our classes!)"]spending-most-of-the-hours-of-the-day-apart[/annotation] but rather spending-all-of-IAP-on-opposite-coasts-apart! Here’s what

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  by Eljakim Schrijvers, the lead coach of the Dutch team at the International Olympiad in Informatics, and Rob Kolstad, the former lead coach of ... well-served by computer science enrichment programs as the coasts. I like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Visit YouTube to Participate in the World Economic Forum! Have world leaders watch and respond to your video at this year's World Economic Forum!

  

  will watch and offer video responses to the highest-rated videos. The website offers five tips for increasing the likelihood of your video's being ... ://www.youtube.com/thedavosquestion and post a video response of no more than three minutes to the following

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2008