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• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... Problem Solving. For those of you who don't know about AoPS, it is the best ... with me. His daughter had been planning to attend the session, but it was

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

  39 windows and 2 friends a love letter to simmons's architecture

  

  at MIT — its rubber ducks, its chalk, its residents’ chronically online doomscrolling — but first and foremost among them, its architecture:   ... atrocity, whether it’s tastefully provocative or just an eyesore, simmons has

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 2, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  ieYk It was (and is) incredibly arresting and compelling video, and I asked Ayo if she'd write up how it came to be so I could post it. She did, and I have reproduced it, unedited, immediately below. I put my first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  's climate in terms of how hot or windy or humid it is and pack accordingly ... . There can be restrictions on what you can carry so it is best to plan ... students at MIT and it helped me a ton. I was able to get advice while

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  ."]cocky.[/annotation] Then I started to pursue computer science thinking I could do it with ... Professional Development office and MIT CodeIt and...god, so many things. And yet ... start ups and nonprofit orgs DanceTroupe a sorority CodeIt the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  it all got left behind when we moved out and stopped rehearsing ... that; it's very difficult to learn new music over Zoom and there were a ... our rep was laid aside for months and months. Now it's the fall, and we

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  - but it wasn't limits of "how hosed could I get before I die". Instead ... bazillion activities. It turns out, things take time, and people need sleep ... activities always run smoothly and people always run reasonably. It turns out

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  '07) to write a guest blog entry. It might not make for the best guest ... the country, it's about time I was allowed to blog. Read on to learn of ... details on what it's like living next to Sam Maurer for a summer, as told by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  , called... Don't let it control you! about the work/play balance at MIT. I ... 'm counting on you, Snively. And all you other commenters. It's just that ... , but, but these are all my classmates, and it says 'degree awarded' on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  Have you ever wondered how different college mascots are ... Wierum)[/caption] As it turns out, relying on measurements was going to be ... how specific the school is about their mascot, I either got a specific

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  BOLD (2003). Zittrain, The Future of the Internet - And How To Stop It ... Artifact. It meets from 7-10PM on Wednesday nights. Right now, we have 18 ... aspirations of its architects, and by the local and global communities that have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  banged, what happened before it banged, or what caused it to bang ... About How The Universe Works", and working out pros and cons using ... direct you here. Suffice it to say that Professor Dumbledore is the reason

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  plastic. How did this happen? 2.00b, Toy Product Design. I've blogged about it before, here, and I'll probably blog about it again sometime in the ... , before that summer, I still had to make it through second semester with Toy

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  , applying to college - it's a lot to handle, and I remember very well how juggling act feels. I also remember wondering how on earth I was going to get ... since Ben insists I wasn't a mistake - yes, I really have asked him - it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  announcing that it was an "Ashmont and Braintree train." Take a look at this map and realize how absurd that is. Schrodinger's train, perhaps? And ... /attending a school like MIT is that in a milieu of such strong students, it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  slightly ridiculous gloss of how my grocery expenses were distributed ... only went bowling once during the semester. It just happened to be ... : It's fairly certain that I earned more from taking surveys than from

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  in the beginning, whether you want to admit it or not. Some people are struck by it harder than others, while others hardly notice it at all, but either way - it's normal. It's merely your body's natural defense mechanism

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  to help serve as a counselor for the week-long DiscoverEE FPOP. My ... elevation. Then it was Work Week for my fraternity, and Rush Week kicked off ... . Theoretically, I had a weekend to work on all of it. But, that Thursday and Friday

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  whether to submit it as it currently is, though. If your answer is so long ... before. (I strongly discourage waiting until the last minute, though) It is ... -108; Cambridge, MA 02139; USA. It need not have any special code on the envelope

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  it, still struggled to wrap my head around material--but i guess i managed to scrape through it. it was the kind of thing where i felt like i ... about it. outside of coursework, i also UROPed + took a PE class

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017