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• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  well (and is volunteering to do this in their free time). It’s also a ... In light of interviews quickly approaching, I thought I’d do a post ... . Here we go!   A bit of background information before we dive in

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  ) Learning = to acquire knowledge or skills and (Δ) Delta = a change in some ... because it allows me to view the student in a more appropriate context that ... to a high LΔ and success in the classroom will also contribute to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  a way as to cause e.e. cummings to weep in his grave. As an MIT student, I devote at minimum ten hours a week to thinking about the ... to graduate,” but let us not fret about semantics. HASS, in a vague

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  Once upon a time, there was an application to MIT... It's a Monday ... down to read my applications, one at a time. I start reading the ... community? a university town? Sometimes I'll use the power of the web to help

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  arguments of the form you Should have a kid to do your part in continuing the ... forget i am in pursuit of novelty, of a way to separate the moments from ... first three weeks each felt blissfully long, as if i’d found a way to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  great choice to fall in love with, so that no matter what happens with the ... letter). Additionally, I would recommend sending us a letter in mid ... to campus to make the case in person. Send us ridiculous items or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  take up a quarter of the page, and to be printed in full color. Also ... ridiculous amounts of food for a few hours (I woke up to my friends making a ... joined in and made my earth-shattering waffles), and then went back to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  finally got to the Malpensa airport in Milan, I was a little shell ... it must be continually stirred; otherwise, it starts to congeal in a ... .S., getting on a flight to Milan was quite a struggle. All flights to the New

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  parties, a floor-sponsored trip to some island in the middle of Boston ... (fressen). I have also learned the German word for "to strike a deathblow ... you know. But it's a busy week in my life, between classes, choir

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  kitchen table on a daily basis is really starting to sink in. It's not that I'm not ready to be leaving home; goodness, I've had two and a half years to prepare for that. But I suppose you could say that in all of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  as a whole, question what impact I wanted to leave on the world. In ... . As a long-time fan of Bo Burnham, it was absolutely surreal to see him ... "what." for the fifth time in a row. By that point, I had already

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  - freshmen are temporarily placed in a dorm, then given the choice to relottery ... and illogical to keep a few freshmen out of the rest of the system. In ... As you may know, I lived in Next House as a freshman, and while it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / Events

  TBP Dinner Sex@MIT is the most-watched video on CNN.com! (but it's not pornography!)

  

  of Sam '07, a nationally honored engineer) to hear a musicologist (rastrologist?) deliver a speech on economics. And in other news, Mollie '06 ... ://www.cnn.com/video/ to watch it =) (I blogged this class back in July) Here I am during

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  you eat. At MIT, you may choose to join a conventional meal plan with access to dining halls, or you might prefer to live in a cook ... Housing is a huge part of undergraduate life at MIT. You choose where
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first ... . Unfortunately, I make student money and am not in a position to just order up a ... course they do; but unlike in a class, where I can always go to office

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Crotchets and Quavers The evensong tradition

  

  , each meant to serve the every need of its students. Most of them have a chapel, a dean, and a choir. According to Anglican tradition, there should ... ). In reality, only one college (King's) manages to do it every day, but

  • by Cambridge
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I ... . Yeah, that did a lot to clarify any questions you might have had. Fine ... just got a lovely writeup in Technology Review. When I started that draft

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  'm sitting in the emergency exit row directly behind a bathroom - but rather to ... my summer in Japan, so it was a good chance to fully immerse myself in ... I'm on a 13-hour flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, connecting

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• 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…

  

  to see what she's talking about--even though I live in a dorm with two ... Harvard to small highway to Watertown. MIT is in a prime location for you to run anywhere from 3 to 17 miles in a closed loop around the river. 2

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

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is ... that just walking to Next is the faster option. I have a skateboard, but ... classes. I don't want to fork over cash for an electric scooter or a bike

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023