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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  this feeling. And it can be kind of terrifying. Even applying in the ... always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that ... a Game. There's plenty of other meaningful prose by other brilliant

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  attending one of the most challenging and respected universities in the world ... yourself what you've gotten yourself into, let me assure you of another truth ... first set of thoughts about coming here. Following CPW, you're positively

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  burnt coffee spilled on the stove. The end of a good science fiction story ... summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  Harvard and MIT to the Museum of Science and back again on the Boston side ... Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair of sweatpants I'll wear exactly once. I'll board a yellow schoolbus and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  universe, etc.) even though we're thousands of miles apart (she grew up in ... I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it ... doing a bunch of things even though I don't have any classes. If you

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  ?! And my response is yes, there was definitely some degree of novelty to ...  have all made appearances during my time at MIT because of some sort of collaboration with people here. It's neat-o business, folks. And as of last Monday

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  and co-chair of President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and ... , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views, as of 8:23am today. 560,719,327 a few minutes later, because a friend

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  from the University of Waterloo, whose academic program alternates four ... overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of ... next morning. Yes, this is totally awesome. It reminds me of MIT. It also

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  idea of positive work—even if you feel like you aren't making a stitch in the cosmic fabric of the universe, you certainly can do positive work ... surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  wrong area. Many colleges and universities value multiple forms of ... college or university because they are likely to both take advantage of the ... the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  , and most of the other schools I applied to were art schools anyway. My ... Note: all stories below are unedited accounts of current and former ... screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  immense amount of support has come pouring in from MIT Alumni, offering to ... this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  superhero fan, and I hadn't even heard of Iron Man until only recently ... ; Anthony Stark was born on Long Island, the son of Howard Stark, a wealthy industrialist and head of Stark Industries, and Maria Stark. Tony is a boy genius

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  've known, because I'm staying for another year to finish my Master's degree ... year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a finish line. I also think that attending MIT has had a side-effect of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  iterations of committee. We set ground rules that apply equally to our ... understanding of living our mission and applying our values. I even love how we ... 2.5 months of chewing, a faceless algorithm spits out a decision. Or

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  of MIT deter you from applying to MIT. We have this thing called ... it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber-serious folk... back away slowly and no one will get hurt. As most of you know

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home ... of the Milk that he posted on these blogs two years ago: Nineteen years ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  ;would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  Boston university, the Berklee College of Music, plays tenor and soprano ... unmistakable weavings of a live saxophone. When the game disbanded I followed the sound. At the bottom of the steps of 77 Mass Ave was a lone saxophonist

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  You may know Conan O'Brien, host of the popular late night talk show ... airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be settled?) by the Writers Guild of America. Without writers, the show has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008