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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  Intensive in the Major (CI-M) is a graduation requirement for all majors, usually taken junior or senior year. For course 2, 2.671 is one of them then there are many options for the other with 2.009 probably being the most

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Year of the Dog Happy Lunar New Year!

  

  Happy Lunar New Year from Evie* and the entire Office of Admissions! *Evie is the dog of Associate Director of Admissions Joanne Cummings, and is my favorite pooch in the world =)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  [annotation note="the Kirkland Signature brand is named for Kirkland, WA, where ... hated the sensation The internet remains a home base for me, even as ... Director on the comms team here at MIT Admissions, at least for the near

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  just thrown up for the second time in two hours and felt awful.  This is ... hours for me to fall asleep and it is really hard to stay asleep. At 1am ... -mailed all the East Campus Medlinks, asking for help with getting Gatorade and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  reason for me to be such a huge downer all the time. Meara, of course,is ... faeces in the house, in the house, and this is the rule not the exception ... interesting nonetheless, which is a story for another day. Anyway, armed with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  WE FOUND ALL THE BALLOONS!!! WE WON WE WON WE WON!!!

  

  YYYYYYEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! AWESOME JOB GUYS!!!! WE WON THE DARPA CHALLENGE!!!!!!! CLICK HERE FOR THE OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!

  • by Snively '11
  • December 5, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  tibia (shinbone) hurts. Usually it's from overuse; usually the cure is ... to be tough but because I was lazy. The funny thing is, I can ... myself, why are you stressed? For the first month or so, it just hurt. But

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  the semester! the final was for 14.64 (labor economics), a class i ... (gender and media studies), for which i got to write a final paper about the cosmetics brand Glossier. the paper is here. protip: if you want to stop

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer housing for transfer students?

  Yes—transfer students are guaranteed on-campus housing for their entire undergraduate education! Learn more on the MIT Housing & Residential Services site.
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  .1200[/annotation] was fun! But I digress. This is the first upcoming semester that I ... 'm not looking forward to! Which is also a first for me. There was always at least ... to Film Studies [21L.011] Archery, for the first quarter of the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• FAQ / Transfer

  What are the deadlines for transfer admission?

  For spring entry (February), we must receive your final application ... U.S. permanent residents may apply through spring entry. For fall ... supporting documents by March 1, 2027. Please visit the Transfer deadlines
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  the clock is ticking down. Anything might happen—there could be a power ... ’t the application process. It’s called vacation for a reason. And take ... /carbon/other gases. Review your deadlines. Not every school has the same January 1st

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  the 2 hours of sleep. I had wanted to take a break from work for a while ... high. Charm, like me, is from Arizona, and one or the other of us kept ... the group before they stop for [annotation note="actually I doubt my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  the Toy Building Heaven that is this little shop is the shop vac. You ... inaccuracies, the ghost doesn't have to be blue in order for the PacMan to chase ... If you'll remember, last week was the Latke vs. Hamentaschen debate

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  i moved back to east campus last weekend, and to continue the kinda silly tradition, here is a picture of my old room. the move was ... 's been gone. so one of the themes the game touches on is what it's like to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  paper at http://arxiv.org/abs/math.CO/0507456, he is in the process of ... understood where the research topics for math UROPs came from and how these ... week-long program for Intel Science Talent Search finalists. As part of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  to get through MIT is hard, and you'll often wonder whether or not the struggle is worth it. This is how I felt during the entirety of November and ... many extracurriculars. Ask anyone; being on the executive board for Med

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  just taken a leave of absence. Taking a break from the Institute is not ... was still not what they wanted, and left again for good. So there's something I want to convey to you. MIT is not for everyone!! It's not that

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  really happy for the attention that prefrosh brought to them.  Other times ... alone, and that the entire MIT community is thinking of them. ... I wrote a blog post about how excited I was for CPW last week.  Other

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  September 1st, which is the day classes started. Yeah, it was pretty unideal. We had some people come in the day after, so we rented a UHaul for the ... for me. Having a desk is a game-changer, though—there's so much space to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020