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• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  ’s dirty. I’ve paid mostly using cards, and I don’t carry that much money ... big stuff I’ve already seen or heard of through the American films and shows I’ve watched since birth, and that media consumption played a big

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  real life, and chatted every time we saw each other for the rest of the ... was unable to do a halfway decent cartwheel under normal conditions and ... Halloween. I then ignored all of your votes and went with the most popular

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  cross-register with Harvard undergraduate courses, because MIT and Harvard ... has been much easier to take Harvard classes in the Spring term, when MIT's schedule and Harvard's schedule are pretty much the same (MIT and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  overkill to me. I pick up a free umbrella and hat, both with the MIT ... for online classes, and non-refundable tickets and hotels. There’s also ... and enjoying the sun. It feels like spring. It feels like I go to a real

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  by lush, pseudo-Scottish foliage and location tagged it “Scotland, UK ... the green grass was fake and only yellow grass was real grass"]real ... and my licenseless self was the passenger princess

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  makes 3 current or emeritus faculty (Diamond, Robert Merton PhD '70, and Robert Solow) and 9 alumni (including Diamond and Merton) who have won the ... 't even fully erased! One of the nice and amazing things about Diamond

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  . Mostly, I'm glad to be here, and to be free to make mistakes and learn from ... growing old? can someone tell me how i got here, and there, and to all these ... escalating unpredictable horrible move-out week in March, and how even just

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  jockeying for social status and acceptance in teenage hormone land, otherwise ... classes you took was something that defined you and dictated what your day ... allow me to tell you something exciting and maybe a little concerning. As

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  counting towards both of my majors and my HASS concentration. That’s a triple ... It’s the start of my third year here, and once again I am smiling at ... is home and nothing will ever change that. It was the new bloggers

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  , I mean, it's actual free money. As a result, most people end up ... literally free money, we have to stage a battle to the death at an Exec ... English language... and I'm so dedicated to you, gentle reader, that I would

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  year and graduation and "the end" all felt so far out of reach. I wasn ... and all I could do was make sure that I was bringing my best in that ... the next fourteen days, I have two midterms, three group projects and a

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

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  Campus Preview Weekend, was SO much fun. Sure, there's no free food ... 'm writing this after finishing my third and final CP* event, which was some of ... these chances to meet the Class of '24—they're wonderful and hilarious and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  know you online and in person, and I have loved your memes and inside ... to experts with years of experience. It was inspiring and freeing ... . Besides, when else can you get completely free support and counseling

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  my third term UROPing at the Personal Robots lab in the Media Lab, and ... second semester of freshman year. it was a terrible semester and i don ... algorithms class and possibly the most important class of my major. RIP my GPA

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  year's yearbook might not actually get done, I can confidently and quite ... ), it was my duty not only to come up with a concept, design the book, and ... task, etc.; and after our first deadline two months ago caught us by

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer conditional admissions?

  MIT doesn't offer any special or conditional admissions. All first-year applicants fill out the same undergraduate application and meet the same testing requirements.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  Cambridge undergraduates do) and I didn't note when I watched 24 this year ... the clock at MIT and getting several full nights of sleep a week at Cambridge. At Cambridge, there are three eight-week terms, separated by two

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  school's Harvard-MIT Math Tournament team and about starting an online ... It's been four years since I applied to MIT, and while I've been ... November, and I'm reminiscing about my own early action application. Here

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  spreadsheet and described how MIT was portrayed and its accuracy to the real ... reschedule the deadlines. I knew that my IAP and Spring terms were also looking ... Cami '23 and Shayna '23 —  spent the last few years working on a UROP

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  a 20 gallon fish tank inside of your dorm room"] and more than what ... could just go for the next best thing (and probably the more realistic) and put together a fish tank. So during the summer, I spent some time

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025