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• Blog / Admissions

  Two opportunities for high school students And you don't have to live near Cambridge, MA this time!

  

  the MIT Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is organizing for high school ... Cambridge to participate. This time around, however, SWE is holding an ... have the opportunity to explore a diverse number of science, math, and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  't dwelling on the derivation of equations but rather getting to the guts of the ... musicals (not to mention a brief mention of MIT). Soon after, we were wading ... importance of oil. But also, he put the challenge to the freshmen, the Class of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  if you've chosen a major that fits you? Fit is a fuzzy concept, hard to quantify or plot. But this is what it means to me: Fit is having at least ... Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  recommend! Auditioning, or any way of putting yourself out there, is kinda ... I love to dance. I’m a Minecraft parrot—put any kind of music near me ... people, and I want to improve! So, on the first weekend after classes

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  to meet all of you! But before we get to that, the rest of the day... Got to MIT early, worked the help desk for a couple of hours. Headed ... ) where I got to meet a bunch of cool MIT alums (some of whom actually read

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Admissions Decisions Available Online Visit decisions.mit.edu to find out your decision.

  

  . To reiterate: don't wait for decisions to arrive via email or snail ... admitted 540 students for an admit rate of 11%, or fewer than one of every ... matches for MIT, and most were extremely qualified. Our task is to choose

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Sunsical The sunshine of May 12th

  

    a musical by Erick '17 sung to the tune of "Summertime" by ... Classes are over in a matter of time Pandora's on and you're by my side ... The tunnels mapped out on the back of my hand While you were laughing I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  also did a lot of stuff that's more fun than on-the-job hair dying and ... asleep on a kitchen table and woke up to find my entire body wrapped in ... kind of anticlimactic, actually, and I don't feel nauseous or anything

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  guilt, over to the east side of campus, and stood in a semicircle under ... Building, because it is full of grad students and grad students do not sleep ... .  Or because of reasons.  Whatever.  You can't really have a holiday at

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  ' airplanes. This is kind of uncomfortable for everyone involved--imagine if you ... ," muttered one of our neighbors. Meanwhile, we muttered to each other about the ... is," said one of our upperclassmen. "I think we're the only team that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  in 40 cloves of garlic, which incidentally take a surprisingly long ... . Each one should take you no more than four minutes to solve. Constants of ... while I'm thinking of it, that brings us to... FIRST ANNUAL TURKEY VS

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

              ｃｏｎｆｉｒｍｅｄ     That is, of course, an MIT class ring, or so ... Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal, or STRAW. It's a clear send-up of ... with many questions. Who is this nominal (or actual) alumnus? Did he

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y ... answered, and I'll try to get to them quicker. Examples of questions you can ... Growth Mindsets Or literally anything else that you want to ask me I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  , which consisted of the following video: So what was that all about? We ... person about what it's like to be a part of MIT. But even MIT hasn ... whom we could not visit, and to reinvigorate the interest of those who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  I’m perched on the top step of the super-architected Stata ... displayed his or her drawings and models and gave a short presentation to a ... , 2016) explains her models to an audience of architecture students and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  looked to bring a piece of this competition home with us, no matter how ... trial, theater, or athletics. We were an unassuming group of nerds ... . “That is correct.” My heart snagged on the gap between her words. I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  ), which traditionally is when all the students return to see all their ... the horrifying discovery of what "windchill" is. This year however, is a ... having it's annual "Winter School". Winter School is a series of lectures

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  room and leaving a few posters on the wall. I was going to college. I ... starts. i open the door to the quad only to see that none of my roommates ... . college firsts: first shower: it'll take a lot of getting used to. first

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  posting on the [annotation note="the schedule board is a beautiful mess of ... to solve quadratics with origami, use the Axiom of Choice to win ... confidence of an improv artist pretending to be a surgeon. Turns out, the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  weeks in, we released the first iteration of the software as a tool to compare stats on some of the most popular Olympics topics (who the heck is ... , are you even old enough to go to a bar?” (“Of course! barely.”) My

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012