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• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  schools." Is this still a valid/official way to send scores, just in case I ... sent in my online application. I'm curious, though. Is there a way I ... demonstrate a strong passion or proficiency in something - playing a sport won

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  some of a few of my "firsts" here at MIT (There's many more, but this is ... dressing up a statue in honor of the ending of a TV show. It's the little ... do a great job of describing life at MIT. They’re all creatively

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP 2006

  

  companies, but in my humble opinion, the best thing about this is career ... fields. (I put network in quotation marks not because I don't think it's a ... restored at my house -- I hope everyone who is still without power (and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  capable as a human being - GPA is in absolutely no way everything and it ... . One thing I really like about MIT is that there is a HASS (humanities ... minor in this. I love writing - maybe it could be more than a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  hell of a lightning storm in Fort Lauderdale, closing the runway for an ... seconds. My luck in airports is notoriously crappy. To celebrate, I went to ... want to throw a heavy glass object every time I see it, which is often

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  , mirrored last year in a paralyzing way. And maybe this is a sign that I'm too ... some psets, did yoga in my P.E. class, worked on a blog post, attended ... the answers, especially this year. I've been dabbling a lot in being

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  Haley C. ‘18 is a sophomore living in East Campus and studying Course ... the morning and headed over to check-in. This is a three-hour shift of ... even more so than this year. One weakness in my teaching is that I have a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Spotlight: MIT stands with the people of all nations we are one MIT

  

  , only one year after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse ... in just ten years. 1 in 15 students at MIT came from a foreign country, possibly the highest proportion of international students in a U

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  social. This is something I really wanted to do a lot more in second ... probably in a month or so). Fencing is so fun! I like it a lot. I hope to ... In my New Year's Resolutions post, I wanted to make a promise to blog

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the Infinite Corridor?

  through the sky is roughly a circle that moves north and south as the ... The Infinite Corridor is MIT’s spinal cord. Many of our departments ... when classes let out. In mid-November and in late January every year
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  Note to anyone who is confused: Cruel Summer is a Taylor Swift song. I've been listening to a lot of Lover lately 😛 There is also a ... -- it's a pupal stage. This is probably the weirdest summer I've ever

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long ... Period, is a special four-week mini-term full of interesting, fun and ... Food: Ancient and Medieval Cooking, Experiencing Health Policy: A Week in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  AIDS Walk San Francisco Shameless solicitation -- join the fun

  

  Gate Park. 9:00 a.m. Sign-In opens 9:30 a.m. Aerobic Warm-Up sponsored by Kaiser Permanente. 9:45 a.m. Opening Ceremony in Sharon Meadow. 10 ... fundraising: This is a very important issue to me so I have set an ambitious

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  campus.  The RingComm chair is at least the 3rd in a row from the same ... One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness ... in all of us. It’s the event where the Brass Rat for each class is

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  arrived in another world. The rainforest is a solid block of plants. There ... this year during IAP. January is the wet season in Brazil, and it rains a lot. Next to every building is a deep groove in the concrete caused by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  /drinking? A Dunkin' coffee I make at home in my favorite mug is all I need. My ... , I like to read at my desk which is in a corner near my apartment ... about where I'd end up in just a few months. The only way to give each and

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  Harvard to small highway to Watertown. MIT is in a prime location for you to ... "prawns" in Australia. However, the incident of a dingo eating someone ... entry was originally titled "Trimalchio in West Egg." About a month ago I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  priority in housing preferences."]having a single[/annotation] has been great ... -smelling room is either: a room lacking any perceptible scent, or a room having that has just a slight fragrance. Avoiding bad smells is pretty

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  taking 7.31 (Current Topics in Mammalian Biology), a seminar-style upper ... looking forward to it. Multivariable calc is a prereq. Eep.) I also have to take 21A.100 (Intro to Anthropology) -- I'm concentrating in anthropology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  did this mean getting to spend some time in Europe but it also meant a ... got a list of what colleges we'll be living in and I'm going to be ... From EC to Trinity Hall Last year First East was graced with a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013