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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  world. Hopefully, after four years of TFP, this hypothetical job will not entail flipping burgers. The only practical result of this for me, since I ... led me to MIT and my ultimate hatred of anything math-related, or if I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  [Productivity! This is my second entry of the day. Be sure to check ... major. (As of last Friday, Ruth switched from Course 17 to Course 11, which is actually part of the School of Architecture and Planning and not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  , Host of Porcelain Cow (7pm Sundays), and Membership Director for WMBR 88 ... once it’s frozen, you throw it in a food processor with a bit of lemon juice and a bit of honey and you process it until it’s smooth. That’s how

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  Zedaph, and the continuous theme of his Hermitcraft Season 9 adventures has been what he calls “Zedvancements.” On top of the standard advancements that are already a part of the game, he’s come up with his own challenges

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  I went to a lot of classes in the first week of the fall semester ... Intelligence, and if there's a class I'm investing a lot of effort into this ... Learning. Wednesday, 11 AM. Stayed for the entire class. I took part of this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain the context of my grades/scores, and/or provide additional information?

  On the application, there are designated spaces to provide additional context on how the pandemic or other circumstances may have disrupted your coursework, access to testing, and extracurricular activities. If you feel it…
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  monastery 30 minutes outside of Kathmandu. This includes teaching English ... /interests without a constant stream of deadlines helped me develop as a student and ... Vishal Sood when I was in Ahmedabad for Garba. There are of course many

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  (relatively small but still nonzero number of) Early Action applicants for whom we are still missing a component of their application. Typically we have pretty reliable email delivery, but just in case some of you didn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  institute of technology went back to class for reals on February 3rd. Before all this, (or at the same time if you're Dr. Manhattan) the graph of ... spectacular finale not seen since the likes of 4th of July. Days left vs

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live

  

  -year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2025 is now live. You can ... . However, we have also added a set of optional questions across [annotation ... know that many of you have experienced such disruptions due to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

   founder of Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), an online school and community for ... -tier research mentors and an exceptional peer group. MIT PRIMES and Art of Problem ... both Richard and AoPS, along with lots of other great programs and people

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  -year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2026 is now live. You can ... remember that, as I wrote last year, we do not give any kind of preferential ... /ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well.   I asked members of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / Events

  MIT ‘10s: Prom, Graduation, And Other End-Of-Year Photos Here are some photos sent to me by various MIT '10s. Feel free to email…

  

  graduation in Hawaii :P" Send your MIT '10 end-of-year photos to benjones at m

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  As a child, I was a hugely voracious reader. I spent the majority of my free time reading, and also a significant part of my non-free time ... with?) Part of my problem is that although in life, I'm generally a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  along the lines of “Oh, economists don’t really study that, we study…” or ... have of the quality of the work done under his or her direction. Even ... possible image of his or her research group be projected to the outside world

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  this recipe in the summer of 1963, the hottest summer we ever had…”"]seven introductory paragraphs of backstory?[/annotation] Those are the worst. So I ... you write on it and try to erase, it leaves smears or shadows of what

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  part i it's been kind of a hard fall. all mit students are different, and each of us has a different capacity for extracurriculars, friends, classes, activities... but most of us are probably doing too much

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  cast sharp shadows across the road, cutting gashes of total darkness ... are some of them. All based on true stories, of course.  For those of you who are applying to MIT EA, the deadline tomorrow is probably one of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  longer lists of the books I want to read and the places I want to go, and ... personal though sometimes hints of my life find their way in. And if the past year has shown me anything, it is that I have changed. The idea of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  . So I try to turn to the thing that usually does a good job of making me ... covered by soft ice. But if I can get myself out of the house and into the ... the promise of skies with no end, soft ice touched only by the wind, and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024