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• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Umbrellas were thought to be an accessory suitable only for women until Persian traveler Jonas Hanway popularized umbrella use ... Jeannie, where she has to make a robot Jeannie to walk down the aisle with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  TBP Dinner Sex@MIT is the most-watched video on CNN.com! (but it's not pornography!)

  

  Stay tuned for an entry on the phenomenal Handel scholar Professor Ellen Harris, whom I heard speak on Saturday night. Basically, I attended ... Campus Preview Weekend (CPW) 2005 with Laura Stuart (head of the class and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  The Proposal One part hack + two parts romance = Lobby 7 love!

  

  . For example, last week, some people constructed the following to ... middle of finals week. Under the cloak of being busy with such trivial

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  coming home with 19 pounds of salmon. Now for all you physics people

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Koch Institute?

  The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, a National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated Cancer Center, is a state-of-the-art cancer ... . The Koch Institute brings together biologists and chemists along with
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply as a permanent resident?

  All students must complete the MIT application with their current citizenship status. In the MIT first-year admissions process, you are considered ... applications from students in the process of waiting for their green cards. If
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer transfer credit?

  If you're admitted, you can expect to receive credit for subjects of study that are substantively equivalent to corresponding MIT subjects. If ... offered at your institution to those offered at MIT with the MIT Bulletin
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  , there is nothing wrong with relaxing for the first semester. Now, I am not ... fighters and got dinner with them <- a story for another time, and was ... you could be studying for, or a UROP you could be working on, etc. etc

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  to be a happy place, or at least, that's the lie I'm going with ... pulls out a huge courtyard party, filled with rides and music and pretty lights, and we're building a rollercoaster for it, and I'm not a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  and won't be for a while. I did not submit any kind of portfolio, but I ... scary, but with the help of [annotation note="the most effective way to ... imagine this popularity corresponds with the rise of [annotation note

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  off with Biology. I knew I was going to take biology my first semester ... , it’d be this one. I was always heavily involved with chemistry and ... going to be thrown into a class with virtually zero prior knowledge and

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  football with a true fan, Mr. Vogel 14. I will miss teaching swimming for my ... teachers, excellent students, and a beautiful school, I have been smiling for three weeks straight. This morning was filled with gathering contact

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  really big challenge for me. This would best be explained by describing to ... with me and my family, you might get confused and think you were at an ... get the idea. So it's hard for me to often answer the question about how

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  merch design competition for the graduating Class of 2025 (that’s me!). Four winners were going to be picked overall, with one undergrad and one ... for it and make my dreams come true. [caption id="attachment_116958

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  For the integrity of alumposting, I'm pasting Daniel's bio from 2009 (when he last blogged for MIT Admissions) as a brief intro: Daniel is the ... industry, including stints on "all three sides of the fence" -- working for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  most of all, we want it beautiful. VC-talk is speckled with grandiose ... current world is not good enough, and we need to strive for change, and we ... to the linearity of time, hence this preoccupation with the future: the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  pillow to the second it hits the pillow again, I am moving. For the sake of ... mediocre. 6.009 Fundamentals of Programming. I have Stockholm Syndrome for ... for CMS as much as I expected to. We debated for an entire ninety

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  light chaos of taking tons of classes, go for it, but the number of ... with my goal of graduating with enough knowledge and practice to launch a ... classes with MBA's and learn about strategy directly from experienced

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  charged with admitting a Class of 2010. And even for students who have had ... . Get in touch with us when the time is right for you and we'll be happy ... time for everyone; I've been at the verge of tears over this awful, awful

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  festivities, I joined up with Sandra G. '19 — studying abroad this term at Imperial College, London — in Italy for 5 days. We adventured around Rome and ... 'd done it for an extended, multi-city trip. In the following week, I went

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018