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• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  assigment. If you're a prospective student, allow me to explain. During the summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on ... , allows you to visit and attend student-planned events at all the different

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  are very few of these arrangements. MIT participates in the Exchange ... and the further details please visit the Exchange Scholar Program. For additional information about departmental exchange programs, please visit the
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcome our new bloggers! Huzzah!

  

  After much deliberation over the 66 applications we received this ... hometown, and has much to tell you about the virtues of serif fonts in this day and age. Boheng C. ‘28 from California, who has biked all the way

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  to the rap class I’m taking this semester with Lupe Fiasco; my living ... I don’t have the voice to ever become better than a mediocre singer ... ’s Sour album and realizing how wonderfully she captured the pains of first love

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  So much has happened academically in the last month! A while ago, I coded a ray caster for 6.837, the computer graphics class that has been ... , it's not...that great. But I digress. I actually wrote the bulk of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? Your name in lights.

  

  be posted starting the week after CPW.

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taste of the Middle Ages

  

  the Met(ropolitan Museum of Art)'s Medieval Art collection --------

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  The thing about short weeks at MIT is that they're not really all ... reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it ... like you're living 5/3 of a day every day the week before Thanksgiving

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  ) poetry with the blogs. I love writing about and highlighting the humanities ... be fun to share some with you. I asked the class to submit poems if ... adore everyone's writing and everyone in the class is super, super

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  on here and say harsh things?" Well, as has been noted in the comments ... hope that these blogs have shown you the care and consideration we give ... out of every 6 applicants. In one of the Oscar-nominated short films I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Action deadline is almost here The only thing scarier than October 31st is Nov 1st (just kidding, no need to…

  

  the deadline for Early Action. Here are some things we want you to know ... their materials after the deadline. We are much more flexible and ... this date and you will still be fine. Please allow five days for the

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  advisor)'s office on Tuesday in search for the answers to life, the universe, and also how to navigate the Course 2 roadmap, littered with numbers ... minutes or so, I was convinced that he not only is the Best Advisor In the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  The past four weeks, in maps. 3 continents, 4 weeks, 11 planes, made comprehensible.

  

  My adventures from the past month can only really be described, and my absence from the blogosphere explained, using a series of maps. I spent a substantial amount of time at each arrow tip. Where? In order

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  Remember the plot of The Matrix trilogy? Neither do I, which is why I IMDB'd it before writing this blog. Fun fact: under the space ... as coherent as any scene in the Matrix movies that didn't involve

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? (Update) CPW: T Minus 4 Days

  

  entry. Thanks everyone! Expect an entry tonight about how to make the

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  This year, Jeremy, Nikki, and I were in charge of the Admitted Student Welcome and Closing Show—two of the flagship events of CPW. Jeremy wrote a lovely blog post to document all the behind-the-scenes work that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  pretty much the perfect metaphor for what MIT has been like for me thus far ... for what’s to come. Then, before you know it, blasted in the face by the world’s largest fire hose . . . ever . . . in the world . . . /universe

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I fill out the self-reported coursework?

  Use your best judgment when completing the Self-Reported Coursework section. We're simply trying to get a clear picture of your academic preparation by subject area—you can't do anything wrong when completing the form
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the ... ultra ultra math nerds, and suddenly you can smell the scent of math wafting into the next room. It’s in the name, after all–the Mathachusetts

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  Sometimes you put a lot of effort into something and the external ... 's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for what feels like eternity without actually getting all of the pus out, so

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023