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• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  -turned-blog-idea on the MIT class of 2029 Discord Server, where I was helping out answering questions from the prefrosh. MIT has very strong dorm culture, and ... prefrosh (sorry that this quiz is so late lol). I dormspammed the survey in

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  There comes a time in everyone's MIT experience, from the application ... rest of the integration is trivial,” or that “most people are introduced ... -in-the-grand-scheme-of-time-and-space-type insignificant, as hard to avoid as it is.) 1) Stop. Collaborate and Listen. (Ice

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  -Help portion of your financial aid, at least at MIT) while at the same time ... not yet passed in which MIT students have fared well in the past: The ... . USA Today's All-USA Academic Team. "Team" members are judged on their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  post. 1: I got pushed off the MIT Admissions front page. If you ... frustrating experiences ever. EVAR. Netspeak is absolutely necessary here. This is because every Virgin Megastore in the Eastern United States is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  application. In that case, go to your MyMIT account -> “Online Application ... ’t make the Early Action deadline, it is okay to apply Regular Action (RA ... interviewer was last Friday*. This is NOT the deadline to have your interview

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  instinct is to do what you ALWAYS do when you have a question about her MIT ... . You recognize that icon. It's the MIT icon! And puzzles, well...Anna is ... novel and one eye on the TV, which is showing the latest episode of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  So, grade reports at MIT are not super complicated. When you go online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... charge of the subject will be notified when an O is changed to an OX. An OX

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  So, Online Freshman Advising Folders became available on Monday ... out our advising assignments. There are three advising options at MIT ... .716" is way too much for me. How do you even say that out loud? Isn't it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  entered MIT as a naive freshman experienced crushing social isolation due ... on questions of life or uncertainty or being-at-MIT (hint, it was ... -justice-oriented student advocacy group outside of MIT, organized some events for them, and

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  questions is to just go with your initial instinct instead of trying to ... new people online (i ended up being number 42/100). they mentioned that ... behavior in a given setting is to experience that setting i liked that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  living room floor, rapidly typing up my last MIT essay twenty minutes ... ", whenever I apply somewhere. Obviously, this is very, very wrong. But it ... essays online. You don't actually have to look that hard, they

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ecosystems And Web Sites A science question & general check-in.

  

  've begun my big summer project - redesigning the admissions web site. The new site is going to be so awesome. Just you wait and see. :-) How's summer ... This is really, really cool. (Link stolen shamelessly from Riley

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  [redacted], whereas my name in the MIT online application is [redacted_sub_2 ... biggest concern right now is hot to get my recommendations to MIT in time ... is admitted to MIT is eligible for financial aid, regardless of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  [annotation note="I realize this is so ick but after I put it I have to commit to the bit. (p.s. this is also what I want my signature French fries to ... possible (boo) For the first time, get excited that security is taking a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  MIT. Even though, I lost the bottom case and the top is chipping and ... my laptop case. This is the MIT blogger sticker that we got way back in ... . Health Is A Human Right: This sticker is from MIT's Global Health Alliance

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  as an AeroAstro is amazing in a lot of respects. 9AM classes for ... Symposium, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the MIT AeroAstro department ... reminiscing about MIT, sitting across from each other in Unified Engineering or

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  's Guide to the Galaxy. Similar to gateway drugs, this book is the first step ... fear that you're really a cylon, all hope is lost. -If reading science ... displays more than just your knowledge of ordinal numbers. (This one is

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

  And term starts again…

  

  classes this term. The descriptions are yoinked from the online course ... beef up my math background. Prof. Kleitman is a zany, charismatic mad ... comments: My last unfulfilled Course 9 requirement is a probability

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  USA is that it has really has taken root in the midwest and mountain ... homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to ... data to the schools where the challenge is proctored to help them

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  Orientation, when I decided on a whim to get a Harvard library card, which is free for MIT students. I filled out an online application and reserved an ... is for getting students to go to Harvard's sports events. We had to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022