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• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  get quotes from car rental companies, how to organize spreadsheets ... give you the categories of ten articles for you to guess. Catfishing was ... an unsustainable rate. It can be hard to mark time at Mathcamp. For

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  most conventional form: we hold a hackathon, where you spend ... this is a weekend where you spend a short amount of time trying to build ... . This is my thank you to every team member, for reminding me that we can

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  essay, go to 3.   3 How can you describe your essence in 250 words? 100 ... passions. Highlight quirks. You can’t fit everything into a college essay, so ... plenty topics and stories you can choose. Most of them work. But there are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  success profile can be a valuable framework when you start a job -- a ... excellence.  You need to care deeply about getting something right and also ... you get bogged down in the details, you lose sight of what's actually

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  Several weeks ago MIT had their famous fall Career Fair where ... students update resumes, dry clean suits, get hair cuts, and start practicing ... bubble in that, as an MIT student, you start to forget what the outside

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  squalor. So, for your edification... First degree squalor: You are getting ... inconvenience you. Things are just starting to get out of hand and become ... DID YOU KNOW? In Burton-Conner, if you keep leaving your suite messy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  lol. So how are things with you today." "But here is where the superego pipes up and says, “Ahem, you can’t just go around slapping people upside ... . And thank you to Ken for linking it again and contributing to it! "When

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MITES, RSI and WTP deadlines approaching Summer programs at MIT for 11th graders.

  

  , and team-based projects. There are two tracks from which you can choose ... a four-week summer academic and residential experience where female ... you are planning to apply to one of these programs, don't procrastinate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Study Abroad Fair Learn about opportunities to study in another country (8 pictures)

  

  - 5 PM Where: 2nd floor of the Student Center (La Sala de Puerto Rico ... at once. We look forward to seeing you at the Fair! ---------- You can't really read it, but the white banner in this picture is for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  unbelievable weekend. Bonus points if you can find yourself! Video is here ... Schmill. Can you pick up the dean of admissions at any other college? I don ... CPW story can be summed up in three pictures. Friendship: From R to L

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  ) -- I hope that you have already asked your teachers if they can write a ... , and have teachers who are not English fluent, this is okay -- you can still have them write you a recommendation. They can write in their native

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  telling you about my experiences. One of the things that gets me most is how ... it goes so fast, how could it be over? Then you think about specific moment, all of the episodes, and you realize that it didn't go fast, that

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to ... you do a tiny little bit more digging, you can find that the owner of ... /territories using their shape and how far off you are geographically (or for a harder

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  basically, Adam's going to get into MIT -- if you have a professor who already ... to get into the city. If you're coming out to Boston on a plane anytime ... 's a pretty big standard deviation! 3. Katie asked, How did you get the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  my first MIT pset. As you can imagine, it's been hard to devote my ... These first 3 weeks at MIT can best described as a whirlwind of new ... classes are you taking? Me: 7.012, 8.01, 18.02, 3.986 -Awkward Silence- Me

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am ... update on what you've been up to since our last contact. You can also feel ... waitlist. How many people will you admit from the waitlist this year? It is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on ... 've been up to since our last contact. You can also feel free to provide any ... waitlist. How many people will you admit from the waitlist this year? It is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on ... can also feel free to provide any other information you think would be ... waitlist. How many people will you admit from the waitlist this year? It is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  to be so good, so so good, and I am very excited for you to get to read ... , isn't that the guy with the scooter, who can teach you the secrets of ... 'll be sharing their first posts with you in the near future, so get hype

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  Housemaster) "As you know, young children play these imaginative formative ... is that the lectures are so eclectic and wide-ranging that you're bound ... there was a massive photo flurry. I didn't get to be in the pictures since

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010