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• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  week, I arrived on campus full of that fear, which quickly seemed to be ... people who would go on to become part of my MIT family. On the first day, I ... so willing to take on my passion as their own. What I've found is that

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of ... ? 6.046 is the kind of class that teaches you how to use this broken ... ’d spend up to twenty hours working on every last detail of every problem. I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  first Senior Week On The Blogs!!!! It is often when things come to an end ... week on the blogs. *cue all of the sad faces and crying emojis* Writing on the blogs, sharing tidbits of our lives at MIT and hearing from you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  blogger training: The mission of the blogs is to allow our bloggers to express to the world what being a student at MIT is like. You should ... mean to be an admissions blogger? Here is the opening paragraph from the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  other major mutations. To this, Carlos said, "This is typical of many ... , and how it is representative of everything in my life. Due to a ... 've been to Medical. All of my tests are normal. This is a serious issue

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  surreptitiously going up to the statue of a mouse which is believed to be the ... getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple ... applying to a college outside of Costa Rica, since our education system is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  more education or simply because their job is here. Lots of those people ... . Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were ... burned out and ready to move on, and although I still talk to the younger

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  than 76%, which left very little space to admit students off of the wait ... decisions so we could figure out whether or not we had room to admit students ... , our plan and hope is  to admit students from the wait list. This year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ Some Q & A regarding testing for MIT admission.

  

  it is helpful to you. Q. Do you prefer the SAT or the ACT? A. We ... . What score should I get on the TOEFL? A. TOEFL is the one test for which ... those of you applying this year and for whom English is your primary

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  on some kind of maturation pedestal - and it is worthy of the hype I ... , "life after college" is a scary but also exciting topic to think about ... still a whole life of decisions to be made. It could be graduate school

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  the [annotation note="Short for “Registry of Motor Vehicles”, which is ... Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even ... friends objected. “Don’t people drive on the left side of the street in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  -and-variations. He then had to take three of the ten compositions we submitted on ... get a piece of e-mail that's accidentally been replied-to-all, I say to ... to give them 19 years on the chain gang just for adding another letter

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  halls will offer continental breakfast, something which is a rare find on ... $2,250 a year on food – and that figure includes lunch, which is not ... to go out to eat on the weekend, it is extremely rare that one eats at

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!

  

  in different weeks so that you have one or two exams to take every two weeks or so. But then there is this one week that just happens to fulfill ... , "Getting an education from MIT is like drinking from a firehose" which is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  on making yummy food, and making a lot of it. Cooking is a social event ... to make food. Which is why I’m really really glad that MIT doesn’t make ... . Which is kind of embarrassing considering I have a cooking blog. :) While

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  The average length of the e-mails seems to vary based on how busy Mitra ... Mitra and I talk about to the tune of 5.8 e-mails on an average day? Well ... 's no better way to do that than to look at my webmail inbox--to see

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  night on Friday to finish a conversation with a peer. A rite of passage ... medical or law school, feels easy. That’s why for most of us, IHTFP is a ... time, checking out of the room, walking the stage to shake hands with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  accessible to me on a daily basis is much smaller.  Of course, that would be a ... , which is how you know I’m well and truly exhausted. Normally, playing and/or ... absurd amount of people using it (as Vincent H. '23 can attest to), I’m on

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  happens to be on MIT's campus. Which is only 2. But still. 100%! Also I just ... , and go to study breaks on my new floor. I'll enjoy the company of all ... (who is now actually married to Adam) feels the need to be all "Sooooo, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to ... data to the schools where the challenge is proctored to help them ... 're a student or a parent, you could forward this to your math or science

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017