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• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  from existing in the capacity it's used to, so people would end up moving ... and adhere to? And in this set of options, when a community has to be ... want it to be. The community's physical space also plays a role in how

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  application was already strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular ... working hard!) as well as a text box for any other updates you'd like to ... application. The Midyear Updates form is a simple text box, similar to an essay

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to use your imagination to fill in the blurrier pixels. Gene ... electromagnetic fields. There seems to be a resurgence of differential equations in ... brought in a tank of fluorescent fish, which I thought was a great way to

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

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  understand. Often, we see students go back to a teacher from earlier in ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  should get used to that.) And a question via email: Yasemin asked (via ... might change... hell, you just might want to be able to live in a new place. If you're considering a career in academia, you probably ought to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  people is a useful skill in general and later on in life if you want to ... classes in subjects that aren’t math, but involve math to a reasonably high ... used to before college lol) so I like making video game analogies. In

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  aversion to STEM continued as I went to college and pursued a major/minor in ... in under-resourced countries or finding new ways to study underwater ... work at MIT Admissions!? The kid who used to complain about how much you

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  to wait a little longer as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action ... deferred in EA. Can I call or email to find out why I was deferred? No. We ... I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is the February

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I will graduate tomorrow how I feel about the past five years, and the years ahead of me

  

  into, and what I liked to write about that energized me, in front of a ... people I looked up to while I was still trying to find footing as a fresh ... that I wanted to get into back in high school. Learning to code made me a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 27, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  challenge to you: Eat free food. Find a hack somewhere on campus Build ... printed and are sitting in boxes waiting to be distributed to YOU when you come to the Student Center to check in tomorrow*? Oh no! How will I ever

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  barrier. I get thirsty very easily, so in the airport, I wanted to get a ... var. myrtifolia). The tree grows to a height of 3m and can be found in ... Rome So my spring break trip began in a sudden blur of things. My day

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  is solved. I'll use all this in months to start developing a model ... that you cannot respond to emails in your inbox when I know for a fact ... .  Notably, this meaning finding a way to numerically describe the shape and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  a box of free truffles in her office to strangers on a mailing list ... space in our room that was screaming to be filled by a sofa. Attempts were ... Halloween. Had I used this idea, my physics class would have become a set that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  completely until you’re here in a dorm, in a town you’ve only been to during ... stuck on our bikes in a thunderstorm where we took to a revolving door at ... back inside for a home-cooked meal, seems so long ago. In reality, it has

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  can get a PhD in math and teach classes for the rest of my life to ... My Head [annotation note="Right now I plan to keep finding music to go ... , imposter syndrome just sort of, exists. It’s a voice in the back of my head

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  sent to a relative wishing them a happy birthday! or a congrats on graduating!, a funny tweet sent to a friend, or a tag on MIT Confessions. On occasion, I’ve used Zoom or FaceTime to get a sense of realness in my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  go for a hot cup of cocoa, but I realize we don't have any in the house ... . "Slugfest") hall in the East Campus dorm. According to the Slugfest wiki ... hope you all can hear us. The idea is for everyone to take a break from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  with his mother in New York. However, I find it hard to take seriously ... was trying to find myself but was unsuccessful. Then we went to Shawna ... froze exactly as it was, would you be able to roll it like a bowling ball

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  you in time? A: If you did not select your scores to be directly sent to ... MIT tracking system. What should I do? A: Log in to your MyMIT account and ...  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  . Other students find a classroom to work in. I always seem to have bad luck ... to pass slowly, because I was doing a lot of work in that time. I could ... to be. I think I also made a mistake in what I was studying. Professor

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011