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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  in your MyMIT account) then it is likely that we don't have an ... Kenya - so will you consider swahili as being a foreign language?" We don't have a foreign language requirement, so you don't really need to worry

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  you can't live in an FSILG until you're a sophomore. Unfortunately, in ... , for that matter) of Dorm Rush. As a result, they aren't quite sure what ... lottery, he stated that he was going to die if he didn't live on 3rd East

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  shaping up nicely (sorry, I didn't have a camera with me). And across Main ... would you admit?" I never answer questions like that, because we don't ... don't believe this -- often times people will accuse me of lying, that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  driving a flathead screwdriver between my eyebrows. I didn't get up. I ... thermometer, the one that my mom kept behind the bedroom door, but I didn't have that thermometer. I didn't have a thermometer. I tugged my blanket

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  downright dangerous, especially for a woman travelling solo. Luckily I didn’t ... probable, and I’ll spell those out -- but if you do get murdered, don’t blame ... expectations before you go. I've only been to two farms, and one of them didn't

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  the majority of the people in her area didn’t have college degrees and didn’t leave her town, she was always told education was her way out. She ... apply to. But she wasn’t genuinely considering it. “I didn’t think I’d get

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  For those of you who don’t keep up with the blogs, I’m Sabrina M. ‘19 ... presidents aren’t just figureheads given arbitrary choices by administrators to ... school didn’t have class presidents or councils, and students didn’t really

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  teacher teaching your future major but who doesn't know you as well?" Yes ... , and when I checked My MIT account it said that there wasn't an ... around where I live, other than golf and soccer, sports I don't have the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  didn’t think I was a “real” physics major because I liked hands-on work ... interest in physics was that of an enthusiastic amateur but that I didn’t ... note="Quantum Mechanics III"]8.06[/annotation] as “systems aren’t in

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  ,[/annotation] but no one seemed worried. I don't think it's because we thought we were immune from the factors affecting Princeton – it was more that we couldn't ... our brief discussion, we didn't take the time to imagine the confusion

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  part isn’t actually the lower temperatures—it’s how abruptly the weather ... Record–basically meaning grades don’t matter as long as you’re passing ... away from the obsessive straight A’s. But that doesn’t mean MIT still isn’t

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  's people who've been in the industry for decades now. I can't imagine that ... . But I don't know. I guess that's also one thing I've been curious about ... engineering, like this job. Because like, what else is there to do? I don't want

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  'all readers who haven't memorized all the acronyms at this unholy institvte ... January. We don't have regular classes, only voluntary self ... welding, which is more versatile but harder, and I hadn't practiced much

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  sets off a chain of thoughts in my head. Pulled by some force I can't ... . "I can't publish this," I think, "I can't even look at it." I close the tab and don't reopen it for a year. i've been thinking a lot about race

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  my first actual dome picture, if you don't count the one from 2018 where I'm...t-posing with the rest of my bio summer camp on Killian ... I didn't want a smoothie after all, then went off in search of the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  the fall semester. In case you aren't from MIT, just as general ... expecting. Now, I won't act like I didn't struggle. But through it all, there were some milestones I was pretty proud of myself for. I didn't have high

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  and it passed; it wasn't really remarkable. i wrote a paper for 24 ... thursday, so that meant i had a whole week of nothing, because i wasn't going ... i didn't know. with everyone gone, it felt closer to how i felt when i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  backpack is the max reasonable load, especially if you don’t need to bring a ... ’s roommate is also hosting someone, so don’t bring a full-sized suitcase unless ... the weekend—anything from cups and t-shirts to books and toys

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  you ask. I couldn’t think of what to call it, and so it became desperate ... couple of people were like “woah, hehe,” but nothing too exciting. I don’t ... . Maybe some day. Holly: Yeah, I guess. I hope. I don’t know. I don’t want

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  like to talk about my major a lot, but one thing that I guess I haven't ... for those who aren't quite sure of what to do, I would suspect that the ... best known as an engineering school, so it makes sense that economics isn’t

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016