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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  school, where I could put some marginal effort into classes and get good ... colleges, but culture is really a tangible thing that you can compare. So ... buildings are always open. You can easily find an open classroom for students

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  Orientation and lasts for up to two weeks. - Over those two weeks, you get to ... like them and they like you, you probably end up getting a bid to join ... much top secret). - You can't live in your fraternity during your

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  some puzzles for yourself, you can check out the archives, or you can try ... can get up for an early morning (4am!) puzzle. This Hunt rocks, so far ... Hunt is a weekend-long competition at MIT where people team up to solve

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  “@Andi you know how with ultra hand you can rotate objects in 45 ... [/annotation] asked me over Discord one day, “how many unique [orientations] can you ... of enemies in seconds. And the fact that you can build functional

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  you get to pretend to be an adult for a couple months before returning ... you can't always have internet. Figure out transportation. Well you ... affordable laundry facilities where you find to live but in case you don

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  and bathe in the (metaphorical) blood of my enemies — well, you get the ... : You can switch the order of steps a+b and c. This is just the order I ... case scenario, where you may have forgotten information or they

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  . You see, one of the things I want most to get out of freshman year is to ... now been put in a retirement home where it can consult a therapist twice ... This weekend marks the notable milestone where, for the first time in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  longer and collect more experiences before you can really understand your ... there and you're not even sure where they began nor where they'll end ... where to live and who to spend time with and career choices and so on. i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  are developing, and see where their students can use additional ... they consider signing up. If you're not an American any-of-these, you can ... rudimentary to very advanced. It also provides data to the schools where the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  -orientation programs you can choose as a prefrosh to get to campus early for activities ... algorithm for getting into MIT. Hopefully these general guidelines can help ... this! Either you get the decision sooner, or you get extended time to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  particularly useful. In biology at least, a masters degree won't really get you any better jobs than you would get with a bachelor's degree (that is ... Triton, where I am hanging out after my UCSF interview, waiting for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  Beckinsale is a vampire, which you can tell because all vampires always wear ... ...and have you seen "Underworld?" My friends in Harrisburg and I ... the only guy in the world whose cells can accept both vampire and lichen

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  . Timur Sahin asks, "Forget admissions, housing, et al. Where do you see ... you that you feel get you closer to your goal in life? So I guess what ... where you want to be? How much of this was unique to MIT as opposed to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  night sky away from the city. You can say that’s cheesy, and that I didn ... blankets: if you don’t have one, you should get one. It’s pretty awesome. ... outside the MIT bubble. Sounds crazy, right? Well, do you want to leave home

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  world to get into MIT; you need to have the passion to save the world one ... can't wait to share my adventures and stories with you all, and I hope ... , that said "YOU GOT THE GIG!" I simply did not believe it.  I was sitting

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  , including one where you get to build furniture for your room (a picture of a ... seminar also serves as your freshman advisor. This way, you get to know the ... you want to get into and how long the waitlist is). Also, once you get

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  're looking for admissions officer blogs, look no further than MyMIT, where you ... applications of the year, I note that I'm getting a lot of new traffic to the ... of Financial Aid, and 9 current MIT students -- can now be viewed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  where i am The downstairs door is open; I can feel it because ... ." "Mentorship is always the responsibility of the mentee." "Find a job where you ... learning." "Get a PhD" in your field--even if you're not literally getting

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  sleepless nights this year? Here we go! As you can see, my Mondays and ... is where I continue to work on ElectroPlushies and get them up and ... Twice a year all of the bloggers essentially get a freebie post. We

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  you can add some context and details to your application. It’s a chance to tell your story and for us to get to know you as a three ... just so we can learn more about you personally, but also because it

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022